Roberto M. BILLI


Sveriges Riksbank, Research Division, 103 37 Stockholm, Sweden

Phone: +46 8 787 0857

Email: roberto.billi@riksbank.se (work)   roberto@rmbilli.com (personal)


Summary of research and policy advising expertise

Optimal inflation goals and the design of monetary policy strategies in the presence of a zero lower bound on nominal interest rates

Monetary and fiscal policy interactions

Financial regulation and macroprudential policies


Biographical   Research   Personal


Biographical

Sveriges Riksbank: Senior research economist, since 2011

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City: Research economist, 2005-2011

CFS, Goethe University Frankfurt: Ph.D. in Economics, summa cum laude, 2005

European Central Bank: Research visitor, 2005

Federal Reserve Board: Dissertation intern, 2004

Kiel Institute for the World Economy: Advanced Studies in International Economics, 2001

Central Bank of San Marino: Research economist, 1996-2001

London School of Economics: M.Sc. in Economics, 1999

Universitŕ degli Studi di Bologna, Italy: Degree in Economics, 1996

< Curriculum Vitae, May 15, 2013 >

Additional websites

EconPapers

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Research

Work in progress

Nominal GDP Targeting and the Zero Lower Bound: Should We Abandon Inflation Targeting?

Preliminary version available upon request

Output Gaps and Robust Monetary Policy Rules

Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 260, March 2012

Distortionary Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy Goals

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City RWP 10-10, Revised January 2011 (with Klaus Adam)

Price-Level Targeting and Risk Management in a Low-Inflation Economy

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City RWP 08-09, December 2008

Publications

Optimal Inflation for the U.S. Economy

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 29-52

[Replication files]

Output Gaps and Monetary Policy at Low Interest Rates

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review, First Quarter 2011

Was Monetary Policy Optimal During Past Deflation Scares?

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review, Third Quarter 2009

Monetary Conservatism and Fiscal Policy

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55 (8), 1376-1388 (with Klaus Adam)

[Replication files]

What Is the Optimal Inflation Rate?

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review, Second Quarter 2008 (with George A. Kahn)

Discretionary Monetary Policy and the Zero Lower Bound on Nominal Interest Rates

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54 (3), 728-752 (with Klaus Adam)

[Replication files]

Optimal Monetary Policy under Commitment with a Zero Bound on Nominal Interest Rates

Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2006, 38 (7), 1877-1905 (with Klaus Adam)

[Replication files]

Discussions

New Keynesian Dynamics in a Low Interest Rate Environment

By R. Anton Braun and Lena Mareen Körber

Federal Reserve System International Economics Meeting, Atlanta, 2011

The Effects of Foreign Shocks when U.S. Interest Rates are at Zero

By Martin Bodenstein, Christopher J. Erceg, and Luca Guerrieri

Federal Reserve System Macroeconomics Meeting, San Francisco, 2009

Using a Projection Method to Analyze Inflation Bias in a Micro-Founded Model

By Gary S. Anderson, Jinill Kim, and Tack Yun

Optimal Monetary Policy Workshop at Norges Bank, Oslo, 2008

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Personal

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Last Edited: May 15, 2013