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MATTEO IACOVIELLO: RESEARCH

 

 

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WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Housing Wealth and Consumption,” September 2009 (draft entry prepared for the International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier, forthcoming, 2011)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, and Marina Pavan, “Housing and Debt over the Life Cycle and over the Business Cycle,” November 2009 (slides are here)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, Fabio Schiantarelli and Scott Schuh, “Input and Output Inventories in General Equilibrium,” October 2009

Technical Appendix: Iacoviello-Schiantarelli-Schuh Technical_Appendix.

 

Iacoviello, Matteo and Raoul Minetti, “Foreign Lenders in Emerging Economies,” November 2008

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, and Frank Smets, “House Prices and the Transmission Mechanism in the Euro Area: Theory and Evidence from a Monetary Union Model,” in progress

 

 


PUBLICATIONS

 

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, and Stefano Neri, “Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE ModelAEJ Macro, forthcoming.

Appendix C (Estimation Details): Iacoviello-Neri Appendix_C.

Appendix D (Robustness Analysis): Iacoviello-Neri Appendix_D.

Appendix E (Mathematical Derivations): Iacoviello-Neri Appendix_E.

Replication files: Iacoviello-Neri Replication.

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Household Debt and Income Inequality, 1963-2003,” (2008), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. Vol. 40, No. 5 (August), pp. 929-965

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, and Raoul Minetti, “The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Housing Market,’’ (2008), Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 30, No. 1 (March), pp. 69-96.

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, and Marina Pavan, “An Equilibrium Model of Lumpy Housing Investment,” (2007) Rivista di Politica Economica, Vol. II, March-April.

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, and Raoul Minetti, “International Business Cycles with Domestic and Foreign Lenders,” (2006), Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 53, No. 8 (November), pp. 2267-2282.

(A technical appendix is available. The working paper version of the article contains additional empirical results. Replication files are here).

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “House Prices, Borrowing Constraints and Monetary Policy in the Business Cycle”, (2005), American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 3 (June), pp. 739-764.

(Appendix C is available. A technical appendix is here. Replication files (including technical appendix) are here)

(Dynare_3 code to replicate impulse responses) 

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Consumption, House Prices and Collateral Constraints: a Structural Econometric Analysis,” (2004), Journal of Housing Economics, Vol 13, No. 4, pp. 305-321.

 

Iacoviello, Matteo and Franηois Ortalo-Magnι, “Hedging Housing Risk in London,” (2003) the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol 27, No.2, pp. 191-209

 

Iacoviello, Matteo and Raoul Minetti,  “Financial Liberalisation and the Sensitivity of House Prices to Monetary Policy: Theory and Evidence,’’ (2003) The Manchester School, Vol 71, No. 1, pp. 20–34.

 

 


POLICY PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, ETC.

Iacoviello, Matteo, “What Do VAR and DSGE Models Tell Us About the Current Business Cycle?,” May 6, 2009

(Slides for a presentation at the Boston Fed, containing outlook and forecasts for the housing market as of May 2009)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Lessons from the Recent Housing Market Cycle,” March 28, 2008

(Slides for a presentation at the IMF)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “The Fed and the Housing Boom,” January 2006

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Short-term Forecasting: Projecting Italian GDP 1 Quarter to 2 Years Ahead,” IMF Working Paper 109/2001

Iacoviello, Matteo, “House Prices and Business Cycles in Europe: a VAR Analysis,” (10/2002), BC Working Paper 540

 


DISCUSSIONS

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Discussion of Valentina_Michelangeli (Does_it_Pay_to_Get_a_Reverse_Mortgage)”, September 2008 (BC/BU Green Line Macro Workshop, Chestnut Hill, MA)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Discussion of Lawrence Christiano, Roberto Motto and Massimo Rostagno (Financial Factors in Business Cycles)”, June 2008 (Bank of Italy DSGE Conference, Rome, Italy)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Discussion of Jonas Fisher and Martin Gervais (First-Time Home Buyers)”, January 2008 (ASSA Meetings, New Orleans LA)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Discussion of Michael Johnston (Real and Nominal Frictions Within the Firm)”, December 2007 (BC/BU Green Line Macro Workshop, Boston MA)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Discussion of Alessandro Calza, Tommaso Monacelli and Livio Stracca (Mortgage Markets, Collateral Constraints and Monetary Policy)”, December 2006 (ECB/Board International Research Forum on Monetary Policy, Washington DC)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Discussion of Jeffrey Campbell and Zvi Hercowitz (The Role of Collateralized Household Debt in Macroeconomic Stabilization)”, September 2006 (Bank of Canada/Cleveland Fed/Swiss National Bank conference, Ottawa, Canada)

 

Iacoviello, Matteo, “Discussion of Riccardo DiCecio (Comovement: It’s not a Puzzle)”, December 2005 (Italian Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics, Bologna, Italy)