Alessandro Flamini

Lecturer in Economics

Room 411
Telephone +44 114 22 23409
Fax +44 114 22 23458

email : a.flamini@sheffield.ac.uk

Alessandro joined the department in October 2008 and previously held a Lectureship in Economics at Keele University. He gained a B.A. in Economics and a Doctorate in Mathematics for Economic Decisions from Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy; a M.A. from University of Pennsylvania, USA, and a Ph.D in International Economics from HEI Geneve.

Visiting Positions

  • Research Fellow, Ente Luigi Einaudi, Italy, April 2008- October 2008
  • Visiting Fellow, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong, China, October (2005)
  • Visiting Researcher, New Zealand Reserve Bank, Wellington, New Zealand, October (2005)
  • Visiting Student Research Collaborator, Princeton, Economic Department, NJ, USA. (2003)

Research Interests:

Monetary Economics/International Finance/Monetary policy and Development/Applied Macroeconometrics

Work in Progress:

  • “Central Bank Preferences Distribution Forecasts and Economic Stability in a Small Open-economy” SERPS working paper 2009005.

  • “Real-time Optimal Monetary Policy with Undistinguishable Model Parameters and Shock Processes Uncertainty” (with C. Milas) RCEA working paper 30-09.

  • “Household’s Preferences and Monetary Policy Inertia” (with A. Fracasso), SERPS working paper 2009002.

  • “Transmission Lags and Optimal Monetary Policy”

  • “Realistic Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism and Empirical Fit of the NKGE Models” (with D. Pfajfar)

PhD supervision

Areas I am interested in supervising:

International Finance/Monetary Economics/Monetary Policy and Development

Teaching

  • ECN324 Monetary Economics
  • ECN6660 Monetary Economics and Dynamic Optimisation (Dynamic Optimisation part)

Administrative Roles

  • External Seminar Organizer
  • Member of Departmental Research Committee

Selected Publications

  • A. Flamini

    “Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Pass-through”
    Journal of International Money and Finance, 26 (2007) 1113-1150.

  • C. Alcidi, A. Flamini, A. Fracasso

    “Policy Regime Changes, Judgment and Taylor Rules in the Greenspan Era”
    Forthcoming in Economica.

  • A. Flamini, C. Milas

    “Real-time Optimal Monetary Policy with Undistinguishable Model Parameters and Shock Processes Uncertainty”
    Forthcoming in Studies of Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.



16 June 10