CASTELNUOVO EFREM

EFREM CASTELNUOVO: Born June 12, 1972; Married, one son, born 2019
Researcher unique identifiers: ORCID 0000-0001-5141-5167- Scopus Author ID: 6507993112
Web sites: http://citec.repec.org/p/c/pca74.html; https://sites.google.com/site/efremcastelnuovo/home

EDUCATION
2000 - 2004 Ph.D. in Economics, Bocconi University, Italy.
1999 - 2000 Master of Science in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain.
1992 – 1998 Laurea in Economics, University of Bergamo, Italy.

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2019 - : Full Professor of Economics, University of Padova
2017 - 2019: Full Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
2014 - 2016: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
2010 - 2019: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Padova
2004 - 2010: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Padova
1998 - 1999, 2001 - 2003: Junior Researcher, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan.

TEACHING ACTIVITY AND PHD SUPERVISION
Lecturer of several academic courses (undergraduate, graduate, PhD) mainly concerning Macroeconomics and Econometrics
Since 2004, I have supervised more than 140 Master students in several topics in Macroeconomic and Econometrics. I am supervising 1 PhD students and I supervised:

Guido Turnip, December 2019. Now post doc Monash University.
Trung Duc Tran, July 2019. Now post doc University of Sydney.
Juan Manuel Figueres, July 2016. Now Researcher European Central Bank.
Giovanni Pellegrino, April 2016. Now Associate Professor Aarhus University.
Valentina Colombo, March 2015. Now Assistant Professor Catholic University of Milan.
Gabriela Nodari, April 2015. Now Senior Economist Reserve Bank of Australia.

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
Identification of macroeconomic shocks, estimation of nonlinear VAR and DSGE frameworks, quantification of the role of fiscal, monetary, financial, and uncertainty shocks for the business cycle.

OVERALL CITATIONS, RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS
Scopus: 48 papers with 648 total citations and h-index 15 (without self-citations, years 2005-2020).
Google Scholar: 121 publications with 2571 total citations and h-index 26 (i10-index 39).
RePEc: top 2% of 61.000 economists world-wide (13th in Italy) conditional on publications in the last 10 years).

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND VISITING POSITIONS
Visiting Professor
University of Oxford, Dept. of Economics/Exeter College, Jan-Febr. 2013.
University of Oxford, Dept. of Economics/Nuffield College, Jan-Febr. 2011, 2012.
Visiting Researcher
Macquarie University (Sydney), June 2019.
Monash University (Melbourne), April-May 2018.
Reserve Bank of New Zealand, July-August 2012.
Boston University, March 2010.
University of California at Santa Cruz, Oct.-Nov. 2008.
Bank of Finland (Helsinki), June-July 2008, June-July 2009, March 2011, March, July 2013, June 2014.
Sveriges Riksbank (Stockholm), Oct. 2007.
University of New South Wales (Sydney), Oct. 2005.
Research Scholar
Ente L. Einaudi (Rome), Sept. 2003-Dec. 2003.
Awards
September 2018: The Australian, Recognition as Australia's Research Field Leader in Economic Policy.
May 2018: University of Melbourne, Dean's Journal Publication Award - Certificate for Research Excellence
for the paper "Estimating the Real Effects of Uncertainty Shocks at the Zero Lower Bound" (joint work with Giovanni Caggiano and Giovanni Pellegrino).
May 2016: University of Melbourne, Dean's Journal Publication Award - Certificate for Research Excellence for the papers "Estimating Fiscal Multipliers: News From A Non-linear World" (joint work with Giovanni Caggiano, Valentina Colombo, and Gabriela Nodari) and "Monetary Policy Indeterminacy and Identification Failures in the US: Results from a Robust Test" (joint work with Luca Fanelli).

FUNDED PROJECTS AS A SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR/PROPONENT IN THE LAST 10 YEARS
2019-2021: Australian Research Council, $348,500 (about €223,000/Nov. 27, 2018), Discovery Project (DP190102802) on "Uncertainty, financial frictions, and the Australian business cycle" (Partner Investigator - Chief Investigator: Giovanni Caggiano)
2016-2018: Australian Research Council, $305,000 (about €200,000/Oct. 30, 2015), Discovery Project (DP160102281) on "The macroeconomic effects of global uncertainty" (Chief Investigator).
2016-2018: Australian Research Council, $265,000 (about €175,000/Oct. 30, 2015), Discovery Project (DP160102654) on "Macroeconomic consequences of macroprudential policy" (Partner Investigator - Chief Investigator: Tim Robinson).
2011-2013: University of Padova, €34,600, Project on the "An assessment of the empirical relevance of the procedures to extract cyclical components for macroeconomic applications" (Team Leader - Scientific Leader: Giovanni Caggiano).

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (main events out of 40)
2020-2021: International Association of Applied Economist (Scientific Committee Member)
2019: Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (Manchester: Program committee member).
2019: Econometric Society Australasian Meeting (Auckland: Scientific committee member).
2018: Keio University-Melbourne Institute Workshop on "Macroeconomic Policies and Financial stability" (Melbourne: Scientific committee member and co-organizer).
2018: Advances in Applied Macro-Finance 2018 Workshop (Istanbul:Scientific committee member).
2018: Macroeconomic Policies and Financial Stability Workshop (Melbourne: Scientific committee member and local organizer).
2017-2019: International Association of Applied Econometrics (Sapporo, Montreal, Cyprus: Program committee member).
2015-now: Melbourne Institute Macroeconomic Policy Meetings (Melbourne: Scientific committee member and main organizer).
2007, 2017: Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (Padova, Algiers: Scientific committee member).
2014- : Padova Macro Talks (Padova: Scientific committee member and local organizer).
2015: CAMP-Melbourne Institute Applied Macroeconomic Workshop (Melbourne: Scientific committee member and main organizer).
2013-2014: Padova Macroeconomics Meetings (Padova: Scientific committee member and local organizer).
2013: International Network for Economic Research (Orléans: Scientific committee member).
2013-now : Money, Banking and Finance Workshop (various locations, Italy: Scientific committee member).
2006-2013: BOMOPAV Economics Meetings (various locations, Italy: Scientific committee member, local organizer in 2007, 2010, 2014).
2006-2010: PIERO MONCASCA Macro-Monetary Group (various locations, Italy: Scientific committee member, local organizer in 2007).
2012: "Sovereign Risk, Fiscal Solvency and Monetary Policy: Where Do We Stand?" Conference (Venice: Local organizer).
2005: Xth Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Geneva: Scientific committee member).

EDITORIAL DUTIES
2017-2020: Editor (Policy Forum Section), Australian Economic Review.
2016 - : Associate Editor Journal of Macroeconomics.
2013 - : Associate Editor Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Referee for: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Australian Economic Review, B.E. Journal in Macroeconomics, Canadian Journal of Economics, CESifo Economic Studies, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Economics Bulletin, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economic Notes, Economic Modelling, Economic Record, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, International Journal of Central Banking, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C, Labour, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Manchester School, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Research in Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Rivista di Politica Economica, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Southern Economic Journal, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics.

AFFILIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
September 2017-: Fellow Member, CESifo Network, Munich.
October 2012- : Research Associate, Macro-econometric Models and Methods program, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University, Canberra.
External reviewer for:
Working Paper Series: Bank of England, Czech National Bank, European Central Bank, FEEM.
Projects: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Franco-Japanese Scheme in the Social Sciences), PRIN-MIUR, FWO-Research Foundation Flanders, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Australian Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Swiss National Science Foundation, National Science Centre - Poland.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS/SEMINARS (LAST TEN YEARS)
2020: Banque de France-Aix Marseille workshop.
2019: University of California at Irvine, Australian Treasury.
2017: Reserve Bank of New Zealand, 34th International Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance (Paris), CESIfo (Munich), Dynare Conference (University of Tokyo), Australian Treasury.
2015: SITE Workshop on "Macroeconomics of Uncertainty and Volatility" (Stanford University).
2013: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Helsinki, Bank of Finland, Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (Milan).
2012: University of Oxford, Royal Economic Society (Cambridge), Bank of Italy "Carlo Giannini" Workshop, RCEA Conference (Rimini), EIEF (Rome), 8th Dynare Conference (Zurich).
2011: University of Oxford, HECER (Helsinki), Bank of Finland, Central Bank of Slovakia.