Giovanni Lombardo

Principal Economist

Monetary and Economic Department

giovanni.lombardo@bis.org

Giovanni Lombardo obtained his PhD from the University of York in 2000. Between 1999 and 2001, he was a lecturer in economics at Trinity College Dublin. From 2001 to 2004, he worked as senior economist at the Deutsche Bundesbank (research). Between 2004 and 2014, he worked at the ECB as senior economist, mostly in the Research Directorate, with shorter spells in the Monetary Policy Strategy and International Policy Analysis divisions. He is visiting Professor at the University of Basel, where he teaches international macroeconomics and finance.

Fields of interest

International economics
Macroeconomics
Econometrics and mathematical methods

All BIS publications (9)

BIS Bulletin No 131 5 Aug 2026

Energy shocks and inflation: challenges for monetary policy

The recent energy shock ranks among the most significant since the 1990s. Structural factors and initial conditions influence…

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Giovanni Lombardo

Principal Economist

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All BIS publications (9)

Energy shocks and inflation: challenges for monetary policy

International risk sharing and wealth allocation with higher order cumulants

The macroprudential role of central bank balance sheets

Sharing asymmetric tail risk: smoothing, asset pricing and terms of trade

Global reflation?

What are the effects of macroprudential policies on macroeconomic performance?

The international dimensions of macroprudential policies

Self-oriented monetary policy, global financial markets and excess volatility of international capital flows

Optimal inflation with corporate taxation and financial constraints

All external publications (10)

International risk sharing and wealth allocation with higher order cumulants

Assessing the gains from international macroprudential policy cooperation

A theory of pruning

Self-oriented monetary policy, global financial markets and excess volatility of international capital flows

Financial frictions and optimal monetary policy in an open economy

Openness and optimal monetary policy

Global implications of national unconventional policies

Financial frictions, financial integration and the international propagation of shocks

Computing second-order-accurate solutions for rational expectation models using linear solution methods

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