Macroeconomics Seminar with Francesco Bianchi (JHU)

Francesco Bianchi is the Louis J. Maccini Professor of Economics and Department Chair at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He is a member of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Among his editorial duties, he is a Co-Editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics and Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Economics. 

Currently, his main research interests involve the use of machine learning techniques to improve forecasts and detect biases in beliefs, the role of agents’ beliefs in explaining macroeconomic dynamics and asset prices, the interaction between monetary and fiscal policy, and the effects of political agendas and monetary policy on asset prices.  In 2015 he was awarded the Wim Duisenberg Research Fellowship and in 2010 he received the Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other leading academic journals. He has been invited to discuss his research at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, the G20 FWG meeting, and at numerous policy and academic institutions. 

Francesco Bianch's website

He will present a paper, joint with Cosmin Ilut and Hikaru Saijo, at the next Marcoeconomics Seminar on the topic:

Smooth Diagnostic Expectations (read paper)

The next Macroeconomics Seminar will host Daniel GREENWALD (NYU Stern) on April 8th.