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Silvio Contessi Economist

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Published Articles

"Do European Capital Flows Comove?"
with Pierangelo De Pace
FORTHCOMING: North American Journal of Economics and Finance
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Working Papers

2009-011B "U.S. Commercial Bank Lending through 2008:Q4: New Evidence from Gross Credit Flows" - March 2009, Revised April 2009
with Johanna Francis
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2008-041B "The Cyclical Properties of Disaggregated Capital Flows" - November 2008, Revised May 2009
with Pierangelo De Pace and Johanna Francis
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Work-in-Progress

"What Happens When Wal-Mart Comes to Your Country? Multinational Firms' Entry, Productivity and Inefficiency."

"International Macroeconomic Dynamics, Endogenous Tradability and Foreign Direct Investment with Heterogeneous Firms."

"FDI in the Telecom Sectors of Transition and Developing Countries."

Articles in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Publications

"Reader Exchange: Why would a firm want to become a multinational?"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, October 2009, p. 23.

"Foreign Direct Investment, Productivity, and Country Growth: An Overview"
with Ariel Weinberger
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, March/April 2009, 91(2), pp. 61-78.

Recent Commentary

"The Evolving Size Distribution of Banks"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2010, No. 1.

"Commercial Bank Lending Data during the Crisis: Handle with Care"
with Hoda El-Ghazaly
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2009, No. 36.

"Gross Credit Flows of U.S. Commercial Banks until 2008:Q3"
with Johanna Francis
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, 2009, No. 3.

"Net Exports' Recent (and Surprising?) Contribution to GDP Growth"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis International Economic Trends, November 2008.

"Some Incomes Are Less Average than Others"
with Ariel Weinberger
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, October 2008.

"Multinationals Make the Most of IT"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, June 2008.

Education

Degree	Institution	Major	Date
Ph.D.	Johns Hopkins University	Economics	2007
M.A.	Johns Hopkins University	Economics	2004
B.A.	Bocconi University Milan	Economics	1999