Fabrizio Zampolli

Fabrizio Zampolli holds a PhD from the University of Warwick and a Laurea in Economia e Commercio from the Catholic University of Milan. Before joining the BIS he was an economist in the Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division and a research advisor in the External Monetary Policy Committee Unit of the Bank of England. He also worked in the External Development Division and the Monetary Policy Strategy Division of the European Central Bank.

Fields of interest

• Macroeconomics
• International economics
• Econometrics and mathematical methods

Selected Publications

• Optimal policy in Markov switching rational expectations models, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, forthcoming. (with A P Blake)
• "Optimal monetary policy in a regime switching economy: the response to abrupt shifts in exchange rate dynamics", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 30 (2006), pp 1527-1567.
• "Household debt, house prices, and consumption in the UK: a quantitative theoretical analysis of recent developments", Bank of England Working Paper no 379, March 2010 (with M Waldron)
• "The rise in home prices and household debt in the UK: potential causes and implications", Ch. 5 in S J Smith and B A Searle (eds), The Blackwell companion to the Economics of Housing: The Housing Wealth of Nations, John Wiley & Sons 2009 (with M Waldron).
• "The role of money in the economy and in central bank policies", Ch. 1 in L D Papademous and J Stark (eds.), Enhancing Monetary Analysis, European Central Bank, 2010. (with G Carboni and B Hoffman)