Nicoletta Batini
Last Updated: February 27, 2019
Nicoletta Batini is an Italian economist, notable as a scholar of innovative monetary and fiscal policy practices. She pioneered work on the dangers of fiscal austerity and on how to curb debt successfully during financial deleveraging. Prior to the IMF, she was Advisor of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey, and Director of the International Economics and Policy Office of the Treasury in Italy. She has handled extensive consultancy roles internationally. She holds a Ph.D. in international finance (Scuola Superiore S. Anna) and a Ph.D. in monetary economics (University of Oxford).
Email: nbatini@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicoletta_Batini
Country work or Mission Assignment:
France
Sweden
Denmark
Austria
Lithuania
Israel
Canada
United States
Chile
Peru
Field of Expertise:
Monetary Policy
Public Finance
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Labor Economics
Energy and Environmental Economics
Economic Modeling
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IMF Books and Working Papers:
Macroeconomic Gains from Reforming the Agri-Food Sector: The Case of France, Working Paper No. 19/41, February 26, 2019
The Refugee Surge in Europe : Economic Challenges, Staff Discussion Notes No. 16/2, January 20, 2016
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Publications in Journals (Refereed)
· “Fiscal Buffers, Private Debt and Stagnation: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” Journal of Macroeconomics, 2018. (with G. Melina and S. Villa).
“Inflation Targeting During Asset and Commodity Price Booms”, 2010, Oxford Review Economic Policy, 26(1):15-35.
Nicoletta Batini is an Italian economist, notable as a scholar of innovative monetary and fiscal policy practices. She pioneered work on the dangers of fiscal austerity and on how to curb debt successfully during financial deleveraging. Prior to the IMF, she was Advisor of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey, and Director of the International Economics and Policy Office of the Treasury in Italy. She has handled extensive consultancy roles internationally. She holds a Ph.D. in international finance (Scuola Superiore S. Anna) and a Ph.D. in monetary economics (University of Oxford).
Email: nbatini@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicoletta_Batini
Country work or Mission Assignment:
France
Sweden
Denmark
Austria
Lithuania
Israel
Canada
United States
Chile
Peru
Field of Expertise:
Monetary Policy
Public Finance
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Labor Economics
Energy and Environmental Economics
Economic Modeling
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Macroeconomic Gains from Reforming the Agri-Food Sector: The Case of France, Working Paper No. 19/41, February 26, 2019
The Refugee Surge in Europe : Economic Challenges, Staff Discussion Notes No. 16/2, January 20, 2016
Fiscal Multipliers : Size, Determinants, and Use in Macroeconomic Projections, Technical Notes and Manuals No. 2014/4, October 02, 2014
A Simple Method to Compute Fiscal Multipliers, Working Paper No. 14/93, June 09, 2014
Successful Austerity in the United States, Europe and Japan, Working Paper No. 12/190, July 01, 2012
An Analysis of U.S. Fiscal and Generational Imbalances : Who Will Pay and How?, Working Paper No. 11/72, April 01, 2011
Interpreting Currency Movements During the Crisis : What's the Role of Interest Rate Differentials?, Working Paper No. 11/14, January 01, 2011
Informal Labour and Credit Markets: A Survey, Working Paper No. 10/42, February 01, 2010
"What Should Inflation Targeting Countries Do When Oil Prices Rise and Drop Fast?", Working Paper No. 09/101, May 01, 2009
Global Imbalances: The Role of Non-TradableTotal Factor Productivity in Advanced Economies, Working Paper No. 09/63, March 01, 2009
Monetary and Fiscal Rules in an Emerging Small Open Economy, Working Paper No. 09/22, January 01, 2009
The Global Impact of Demographic Change, Working Paper No. 06/9, January 01, 2006
The Domestic and Global Impact of Japan's Policies for Growth, Working Paper No. 05/209, November 01, 2005
Achieving and Maintaining Price Stability in Nigeria, Working Paper No. 04/97, June 01, 2004
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
· “Fiscal Buffers, Private Debt and Stagnation: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” Journal of Macroeconomics, 2018. (with G. Melina and S. Villa).
“Inflation Targeting During Asset and Commodity Price Booms”, 2010, Oxford Review Economic Policy, 26(1):15-35.
“Monetary Rules in Emerging Economies with Financial Market Imperfections”, 2010, in International Dimensions of Monetary Policy, ed. J. Galí and M. Gertler (with P.Levine and J. Pearlman).
“Rebalancing Imbalances through Growth”, 2007, IMF Staff Papers, (with P. Cova, M Pisani and A. Rebucci).
"Optimal Exchange Rate Stabilization in a Dollarized Economy with Inflation Targets," Computing in Economics and Finance, 2006 148, Society for Computational Economics. (with P/ Levine and J. Pearlman).
“Euro Area Inflation Persistence”, 2006, Empirical Economics, 31(4): 977-1002.
"Under What Conditions Can Inflation Targeting Be Adopted? The Experience of Emerging Markets," Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies Book Series, in: F. S. Mishkin, K. Schmidt-Hebbel and N. Loayza (eds.), Monetary Policy under Inflation Targeting, edition 1, volume 11, chapter 12, pages 467-506 Central Bank of Chile (with D. Laxton).
“An Open-Economy New Keynesian Phillips Curve for the UK”, 2005, Journal of Monetary Economics, 52(6): 1061-1071 (with B. Jackson and S. Nickell).
“Robust Control Monetary Policy Rules to Shield against Indeterminacy”, 2006, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 30(9-10): 1491-1526 (with A, Justiniano, P. Levine and J. Pearlman).
“Measuring the UK Short-Run NAIRU”, 2006, Oxford Economic Papers, 58(1): 28-49 (with J. Greenslade).
"U.K.’s Rocky Road to Stability", 2005, in Inflation: Research and Outlook, Frank Columbus (ed.), New York. Also published as Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper No. 2005-020A (with E. Nelson).
“The New-Keynesian Phillips Curve When Inflation Is Non-Stationary: The Case of Canada”, 2005, in Issues in Inflation Targeting , Bank of Canada (with B. Barkbu).
“Monetary Policy Rules for Open Economies”, 2003, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 27(11-12): 2059 – 2094 (with R. Harrison and S. P.Millard).
“Hybrid Price Level and Inflation Targeting Regimes”, 2003, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 35(3): 282-300 (with A. Yates).
“A Dynamic Monetary Condition Index for the UK”, 2002, Journal of Policy Modeling, 24(3), 257-281 (with K. Turnbull).
“The Lag from Monetary Policy Actions to Inflation: Friedman Revisited”, 2001, International Finance, 4(3), 381-400 (with E. Nelson).
“Optimal Horizons for Inflation Targeting”, 2000, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, March 2000, 891-910 (with E. Nelson).
“Forward-Looking Rules For Monetary Policy”, in J. B. Taylor (ed.),1999, Monetary Policy Rules, University of Chicago Press (with A.G. Haldane).