Present and Past Appointments

2025–present
Assistant Director Federal Reserve Board, Division of Monetary Affairs
2020–2025
Chief, Macro-Financial Analysis Section Federal Reserve Board, Division of Monetary Affairs
2016–2020
Principal Economist Federal Reserve Board, Division of Monetary Affairs
2015–2016
Senior Economist Federal Reserve Board, Division of Monetary Affairs
2011–2015
Economist Federal Reserve Board, Division of Monetary Affairs

Teaching Experience

2018–2019
Adjunct Professor Johns Hopkins University — Master of Arts in Applied Economics (Advanced Macro)

Fields of Specialization

Macroeconomics · Financial Economics · Applied Econometrics

Doctoral Studies

2011
Ph.D., Economics Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Dissertation: Essays on Macro-Finance Committee Chair: Professor Lawrence J. Christiano Other Members: Professor Giorgio Primiceri, Dr. Luca Benzoni

Pre-Doctoral Studies

2005
M.A., Economics Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2004
M.A., International Economics University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
2003
B.A., Economics University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy Summa cum laude

Working Papers

Financial Market Effects of FOMC Communication: Evidence from a New Event-Study Database, with Miguel Acosta, Michael Bauer, Francesca Loria, and Silvia Miranda-Agrippino (submitted)

Getting in all the Cracks: Monetary Policy, Financial Vulnerabilities, and Macro Risk, with Tyler Pike (redrafting in progress)

Sticky Leverage: Comment, with Ander Pérez-Orive and Bálint Szőke, FEDS Paper (2023) (submitted)

More than Words: Twitter Chatter and Financial Market Sentiment, with Travis Adams, Diego Silva, and Francisco Vazquez-Grande

Financial Stability Considerations for Monetary Policy: Theoretical Mechanisms, with Nina Boyarchenko, François Gourio, and Andrea Tambalotti, FEDS Paper No. 5, February 2022

Monetary Policy Tradeoffs and the Federal Reserve's Dual Mandate, with Isabel Cairó, Vasco Cúrdia, Thomas A. Lubik, and Albert Queralto, FEDS Paper No. 66, August 2020

Policy Analysis

Financial Conditions and Risks to the Economic Outlook, with Giovanni Favara, Gregory Marchal, and Bálint Szőke, FEDS Notes (2024)

A New Index to Measure U.S. Financial Conditions, with Michele Cavallo, Giovanni Favara, William B. Peterman, John Schindler, and Nitish R. Sinha, FEDS Notes (2023)

Monetary Policy, Inflation Outlook, and Recession Probabilities, with Luca Benzoni, Makena Schwinn, Yannick Timmer, and Francisco Vazquez-Grande, Economic Perspectives and FEDS Notes (2022)

The Asymmetric Costs of Misperceiving R-star, with Isabel Cairó, Vasco Cúrdia, and Albert Queralto, FRBSF Economic Letter (2021)

Publications

Core and Crust: Inflation Dynamics and the Term Structure of Interest Rates, with Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk, Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 33, No. 8, August 2020

Financial Stability and Optimal Interest-Rate Policy, with Thomas Laubach, David López-Salido, and Taisuke Nakata, International Journal of Central Banking, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 279–326, March 2019

Financial Intermediation, Investment Dynamics, and Business Cycle Fluctuations, American Economic Review, Vol. 106, No. 8, pp. 2256–2303, August 2016

No-Arbitrage Restrictions and the U.S. Treasury Market, with Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk, Economic Perspectives, Vol. 36, Second Quarter 2012, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Refereeing Activity

American Economic Review · American Economic Journal — Macroeconomics · European Economic Review · International Journal of Central Banking · IMF Economic Review · Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control · Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking · Journal of Applied Econometrics · Journal of Macroeconomics · Journal of Monetary Economics · Journal of Financial Econometrics · Macroeconomic Dynamics · Quantitative Economics

Other Positions

2009–2011
Senior Associate Economist Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Jan–Mar 2009
Associate Economist (intern) Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Jun–Sep 2008
Summer Associate — Fixed Income Research Lehman Brothers Europe, London, UK
Jun–Sep 2007
Associate Economist (intern) Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Jun–Sep 2006
Research Assistant Kellogg School of Management & Booth Graduate School of Business (Professors Sapienza and Zingales)