FRANCESCA RONDINA (July 2013)

Department of Economics, University of Ottawa Room 9005, Social Sciences Building 120 University, Ottawa (ON) Canada, K1N 6N5 Phone: +1(613)562-5753 Email: [email protected]

INTERESTS Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Time Series Econometrics

POSITIONS Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa (Jul. 2013 - present) Researcher, JAE-DOC Programme, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona (Oct. 2010 – Jun. 2013) Affiliated Professor, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Sept. 2009 - Jun. 2013) Post-Doc Researcher, Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona (Sept. 2009 – Sept. 2010)

EDUCATION Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin – Madison (Aug. 2009) Dissertation title: “Essays on Model Uncertainty in Monetary Policy” Advisor: Prof. Steven Durlauf Committee: Prof. William Brock, Prof. Kenneth West, Prof. Noah Williams, Prof. Morris Davis M.Sc. in Economics, University of Wisconsin – Madison (Dec. 2004) B.A. in Economics and Business, summa cum laude, LUISS “Guido Carli” – Rome, Italy (Dec. 2001)

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS “The role of model uncertainty and learning in the U.S. postwar policy response to oil prices”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 36, Issue 7, July 2012, Pages 1009-1041. also as: UFAE and IAE Working Papers n. 834.10, June 2010 and Barcelona GSE Working Papers n. 478, June 2010.

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS “Investment (neoclassical)”, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke and New York), 2008. Original entry by Robert M. Coen and Robert Eisner, revised by Steven Durlauf and Francesca Rondina.

WORKING PAPERS "Two-sided Learning in New Keynesian Models: Dynamics, (Lack of) Convergence and the Value of Information" (with Christian Matthes) Barcelona GSE Working Papers n. 661, September 2012; Dynare Working Papers n. 19 (2012) CEPREMAP; UFAE and IAE Working Papers n. 913.12, September 2012; UPF Economics Working Papers n. 1338, September 2012. “Policy evaluation and uncertainty about the effects of oil prices on economic activity” Barcelona GSE Working Papers n. 522, November 2010; UFAE and IAE Working Papers n. 855.10, November 2010.

WORK IN PROGRESS "Robust monetary policy under model uncertainty and learning in a Phillips curve framework" (June 2013). "Time Varying SVARs, parameter histories, and the changing impact of oil prices on the US economy" (February 2013). "Model Uncertainty and the robustness of Simple and Encompassing Policy rules" (August 2012).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor Time Series I, IDEA program, UAB Barcelona (Sept. - Oct. 2011) Introduction to Econometrics, Department of Economics, UW – Madison (Aug. - Dec. 2006) Teaching Assistant Principles of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, UW – Madison (Jan. 2004 – May 2006 and Jan. - May 2007); Business Learning Center, UW – Madison (Aug. 2007 – May 2009) Principles of Microeconomics, Business Learning Center, UW – Madison (June. 2009)

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Presentations at conferences and seminars 2013: IAE-CSIC internal seminar series; Bank of Canada; University of Ottawa; Yeshiva University; Purdue University; Goethe University Frankfurt; 19th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF), Vancouver. 2012: IAE-CSIC internal seminar series; IAE-UAB internal Macro workshop; 18th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF), Prague; Bayesian Econometrics Workshop, RCEF, Toronto; Econometric Society European Meeting (EEA-ESEM), Malaga; EABCN conference "Disaggregating the Business Cycle", Luxemburg; ESOBE 2012 meeting, Vienna; 5th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computing & Statistics (CFE-ERCIM 2012), Oviedo. 2011: IAE-CSIC internal seminar series; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Bank of Italy; Econometric Society North American Winter Meeting, Denver; Fourth Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics (ICEEE), Pisa; RES Annual Conference, Royal Holloway University of London; Bayesian Econometrics Workshop, RCEA, Rimini; 17th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF), San Francisco. 2010: IAE-CSIC internal seminar series; XXXV Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía (SAEe), Madrid; Annual meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET), Alicante; 2nd Conference on Recent Developments in Macroeconomics, ZEW Mannheim. 2009: Bank of England; Sveriges Riksbank; Pomona College; Indiana University; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; BIS; Dallas Fed; EPFL/HEC Lausanne; Vassar College; IAE–CSIC. 2008: University of Wisconsin - Madison. Referee for journals Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, SERIEs (Journal of the Spanish Economic Association). Graduate Students Master Thesis Advisor 2010: Natalia Suseeva, “The real exchange rate of an oil exporting country: the case of Russia”, QEMIDEA program, UAB Barcelona.

SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS ESOBE young researcher travel award, ESOBE meeting, Vienna (2012). Royal Economic Society (RES) Conference Grant (2011). JAE-DOC Fellowship, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (2010 - 2013). Scholarship “Marco Fanno” for Graduate Studies in Economics, Associazione Borsisti “Marco Fanno”, Italy (2002 – 2004).

LANGUAGES Italian (native), English (fluent), French (good), Spanish (good)

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