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Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
P.O. Box 442
St. Louis, MO 63166-0442
Phone: (314) 444-8806
Fax: (314) 444-8731
Email: Riccardo.DiCecio@stls.frb.org

Vitae

Published Articles

"Income Convergence in the United States: A Tale of Migration and Urbanization"
with Charles S. Gascon
FORTHCOMING: Annals of Regional Science
Abstract | Full Text (PDF)

"Euro Membership as a U.K. Monetary Policy Option: Results from a Structural Model"
with Edward Nelson
Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi, eds., Europe and the Euro, 2010, pp. 415-39, University of Chicago Press.
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 14894.

"Sticky Wages and Sectoral Labor Comovement"
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, March 2009, 33(3), pp. 538-53.

"Optimal Monetary Policy, Endogenous Sticky Prices and Multiplicity of Equilibria"
with Levon Barseghyan
Topics in Macroeconomics, January 2007, 7(1), Article 8.

Review Articles

"Institutional Causes of Output Volatility"
with Levon Barseghyan
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2010, 92(3), pp. 205-23.

"Supply Shocks, Demand Shocks, and Labor Market Fluctuations"
with Helge Braun and Reinout De Bock
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, May/June 2009, 91(3), pp. 155-78.

"Changing Trends in the Labor Force: A Survey"
with Kristie M. Engemann, Michael T. Owyang, and Christopher H. Wheeler
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, January/February 2008, 90(1), pp. 47-62.

"An Estimated DSGE Model for the United Kingdom"
with Edward Nelson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, July/August 2007, 89(4), pp. 215-31.

Articles in Other Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Publications

"Income Differences around the Globe Go Beyond Physical, Human Capital"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2010, pp. 12-13.

"Is There an Inflation Disconnect, and Could It Affect Policymaking?"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Central Banker, Fall 2007, p. 5.

"Gas Prices: Don't Panic... Yet"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Central Banker, Fall 2006, p. 5.

Conference/Seminar Presentations

2010

"Entry Costs, Industry Structure, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings - Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

"Entry Costs, Industry Structure, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," SNDE 18th Annual Symposium, Novara, Italy

2009

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," Southern Methodist University

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," Ohio State University

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," Fordham University

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," LACEA 2009, Buenos Aires

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," Federal Reserve Bank of New York

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," EEA, 24th Annual Congress, Barcelona, Spain

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," SED Annual Meeting - Istanbul, Turkey

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," 5th CSEF-IGIER Symposium on Economics and Institutions - Capri, Italy

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society - Boston

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," Midwest Macro Meetings - Indiana University, Bloomington

"Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences," University of Miami

"Supply Shocks, Demand Shocks, and Labor Market Fluctuations," Ninth Missouri Economic Conference, University of Missouri—Columbia

2008

"Endogenous Productivity and Multiple Steady States," LACEA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"Income Convergence in the United States: A Tale of Migration and Urbanization," LAMES - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"Convergence in the United States: A Tale of Migration and Urbanization," Eighth Annual Missouri Economics Conference, University of Missouri—Columbia

"Endogenous TFP," Center for Dynamic Economics - Washington University in St. Louis

"Sticky Wages and Sectoral Labor Comovement," Midwest Macro Meetings, Philadelphia

"Sticky Wages and Sectoral Labor Comovement," SED Annual Meeting, Boston

"Heterogeneous Firms, Productivity, and Poverty Traps," III Guanajuato Workshop for Young Economists, Guanajuato, Mexico

All Conference/Seminar Presentations

Working Papers

2010-021A "Cross-country Income Convergence Revisited" - July 2010
with Levon Barseghyan
Abstract | Full Text (PDF)

2009-015B "The Great Inflation in the United States and the United Kingdom: Reconciling Policy Decisions and Data Outcomes" - April 2009, Revised November 2009
with Edward Nelson
Abstract | Full Text (PDF)
Also available as NBER Working Paper No. 14895 and forthcoming in Michael D. Bordo and Athanasios Orphanides, eds., The Great Inflation, University of Chicago Press.

2009-005C "Entry Costs, Industry Structure, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences" - February 2009, Revised February 2010
with Levon Barseghyan
Abstract | Full Text (PDF)
Previously circulated under the title "Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences"
Previous Version (PDF)

2008-023A "Endogenous Productivity and Multiple Steady States" - July 2008
with Levon Barseghyan
Abstract | Full Text (PDF)

2006-004A "Aggregate Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations" - January 2006
with Helge Braun and Reinout De Bock
Abstract | Full Text (PDF)

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Recent Commentary

"Recent Changes in Labor Force Participation: Trend or Cycle?"
with Charles S. Gascon
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, June 2010.

"Why Income Per Worker Differs Worldwide"
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, March 2010.

All Commentary

Education

Degree Institution Major Date
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Economics
2004
M.A. Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Economics 2000
M.A. Universitá Commerciale L. Bocconi
Milan, Italy
Economics 1997
B.A. Universitá Commerciale L. Bocconi
Milan, Italy
Economics 1996

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