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Andrea Falconio

Statistics

Division

Banking Supervision Data

Current Position

Supervisor

Fields of interest

Financial Economics,Mathematical and Quantitative Methods

Email

Andrea.Falconio@ecb.europa.eu

Education
2012-2016

PhD Economics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

2011-2012

MSc Finance, University of Essex, United Kingdom

Professional experience
2023-

Supervisor - Banking Supervision Data Division, European Central Bank

2022-2023

Economist - Business Cycle Analysis Division, European Central Bank

2020-2022

Supervisor - Banking Supervision Data Division, European Central Bank

2019-2020

Supervisor - Risk Analysis Division, European Central Bank

2015-2019

Research Analyst - Banking Supervision Data Division, European Central Bank

25 September 2020
WORKING PAPER SERIES - No. 2470
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Abstract
We study the macroeconomic consequences of financial shocks and increase in economic risk using a quantile vector autoregression. Financial shocks have a negative, but asymmetric impact on the real economy: they substantially increase growth at risk, but have limited impact on upside potential. The impact of financial shocks is explained away after controlling for economic risk (measured by the interquantile range). The effects are economically relevant. Bad economic environment, characterized by negative real and financial shocks, has a highly skewed impact on business cycle fluctuations, leading to a peak reduction of monthly industrial production by more than 2%. In comparison, positive real and financial shocks in a good economic environment have limited effect on upside potential of the economy.
JEL Code
C32 : Mathematical and Quantitative Methods→Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models, Multiple Variables→Time-Series Models, Dynamic Quantile Regressions, Dynamic Treatment Effect Models, Diffusion Processes
C53 : Mathematical and Quantitative Methods→Econometric Modeling→Forecasting and Prediction Methods, Simulation Methods
E32 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles→Business Fluctuations, Cycles
E44 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Money and Interest Rates→Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
4 October 2016
WORKING PAPER SERIES - No. 1968
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Abstract
This paper investigates the relation between monetary conditions and the excess returns arising from currency carry trades. The results indicate that carry trade average return, Sharpe ratio and downside risk differ substantially across monetary conditions before the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. Specifically, expansive policy shifts in the US result in a decrease in inter-national risk aversion, which in turn leads to a compression in currency risk premia and higher carry trade returns. By contrast, Fed monetary policy is not able to affect international risk aversion and carry trade returns during the crisis and Zero Lower Bound (ZLB) period, when the economic recession reduced the propensity of investors to take on risk exposures.
JEL Code
F31 : International Economics→International Finance→Foreign Exchange
G15 : Financial Economics→General Financial Markets→International Financial Markets
E52 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit→Monetary Policy
2022
Review of International Economics
  • Falconio, A.