Published on 02 Apr 2018

​Economics Seminar | The Case for Firm Level Productivity Analysis: Building a Cross Country Dataset for Asia and One Application

EventThe Case for Firm Level Productivity Analysis: Building a Cross Country Dataset for Asia and One Application
Speaker
Prof Filippo Di Mauro
Visiting Professor
Business School, National University of Singapore
Date2 April 2018, Monday
VenueHSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS-04-71)
Time2:30pm – 3:30pm​​​

All are welcome to attend the seminar.
 
Biography
Filippo di Mauro is Visiting Professor at the Business School of the National University of Singapore, where he teaches macro-economics. Professor di Mauro is Chairperson of CompNet, a large research network on competitiveness and productivity among central banks, major international organizations and academic institutes, and coordinator of the PRN. His present research and teaching agenda includes: 1) Productivity and resource reallocation using firm level data; and 2) Modelling global linkages and business cycle forecast, including global value chains. 

Filippo di Mauro has more than 30 years of applied economic experience as economist and research manager in Central Banks (Bank of Italy (1984-1990, 1996-98), US Federal Reserve Board (May-September 2010), European Central Bank (1998-2016)) and International Development organisations (Asian Development Bank (1990-94), IMF (1986-88, 1994-96)). He joined the ECB since the start of its operations in 1998 where he directed for more than a decade the international economic analysis and the global economy forecast in its Economics department to then move to the management of its Research department.

Professor di Mauro has a wide record of publications, including in academic journals such as the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Economic Policy. An economics graduate of University of Rome, di Mauro holds an MA and a PhD in Economics, from the University of Chicago and the American University, respectively.