Luca Onorante

General Information

Date, place of birth, sex: December 31st, 1969,
Genoa (Italy). Male.

Nationality: Italian

Civil status: Single, free of military service.

Languages

Italian: mother tongue

English: fluent written and spoken

French: fluent written and spoken

Spanish: fluent written and spoken

German: intermediate

Portuguese: read only

Education

1998-2006 European University Institute – Florence, Italy
PhD in Economics. PhD thesis “Essays on fiscal policy in a monetary union”. Supervisor: Prof. Michael J. Artis.
Thesis Committee: Prof. Michael J. Artis, Prof. Marco Buti, Prof. Ilian Mihov, Prof. Rick van der Ploeg
1^st year June Paper “Dynamics of european integration before and after the EMU” (Prof. Mike Artis, Prof. Søren Johansen)

1997-98 Universite' Catholique de Louvain -Belgium
Master of Arts in Economics.
Final grade “Grand distinction”
Master thesis “Testing the intertemporal approach to modeling the Current Account and more traditional theories of the balance of payments”. Supervisor: Prof. Harris Dellas

1997 Universita' Commerciale Luigi Bocconi - Milan
Graduate in Discipline Economiche e Sociali
Final grade 110/110 cum Laude
Orientation of studies: international and monetary economics, econometrics.
Degree thesis “Macroeconomic shocks and EMU”. Supervisors: Franco Bruni, Bruno Sitzia, Thierry Vissol

1993 Université Catholique de Louvain -Belgium
Erasmus Scholarship exchange student - Spring semester

1988,1991 U.S.A.
Summer English Programs

1988 Maturità classica
Liceo Classico Statale "G. Pascoli"- Albenga

1986 Willow Glen High School , CA. (USA)
Exchange student - Fall semester

1983 United Kingdom
Summer English Program

Working experience

From January 2008 - European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main
Economist in the Euro Area Macroeconomic Developments Division, DG Economics

January 2003 – December 2007 - European Central Bank
Economist in the Fiscal Policies Division, DG Economics

July - September 2002 - European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main
Internship in Fiscal Policies Division, DG Economics

May - June 2002 - European University Institute
Research Assistant of Prof. Roberto Perotti

February-June 2002- - Free University of Bolzano
Teaching assistant of Prof. Alfred Steinherr, course in Macroeconomics

February - May 2002 - European University Institute - Florence, Italy
Research Associate, project “Structural convergence and European monetary policy: business cycles and employment in Europe” and European Forecasting Network

March 2001- May 2002 - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies – Florence, Italy
Research Associate of Prof. Mike Artis

September-December 2000 - European Investment Bank Chief Economist’s Department
Internal consultant

June 1997 - European Studies Institute (UCL, Belgium)
Web programmer

November 1995-January 1996 - European Commission
Internship at DG ECFIN, Monetary Affairs, ECU Unit

September 1995 - United Nations
External Consultant at UNCTAD, United Nations Conference for Trade and Development, Division on Transnational Corporations and Investment
Worked on “World Investment Report 1995”

February-April 1995 - United Nations
Internship at UNCTAD

Activities

1999-00 EUI. General Researchers’ Representative.

1999-00 EUI, Florence. Computing Assistant for econometric packages.

1998-99 EUI, Florence. Researchers’ Representative, dept. of Economics.

1995 President, former Secretary of S.E.N. (Student Exchange Network, Bocconi Student Association)

Publications (Updated working papers at IDEAS)

Luca Onorante, Diego J. Pedregal, Javier J. Perez, Sara Signorini, The usefulness of infra-annual government cash budgetary data for fiscal forecasting in the euro area, Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 32, Issue 1, January-February 2010, Pages 98-119

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

The economic importance of fiscal rules (with Michael J. Artis), in David Cobham, The travails of the Eurozone.

Elgar Publishing, 2004

Fiscal Convergence before Entering EMU. in: Liebscher et al (eds.), The economic potential of a larger Europe.

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Interaction of Fiscal Policies in the Euro Area: how much pressure on the ECB?, in Beetsma et al. (eds.), Fiscal Policies, Monetary Policies and Labour Markets.

EIB Working Papers 2001

Measuring economic growth and the new economy (with Patrick Vanhoudt), in ‘European economic growth: The impact of new technologies’. EIB Papers, Volume 6.n°1/2001.

Referee

Journal of Macroeconomics, Oxford Economic Papers, European Central Bank Working Paper Series, Public Choice, Journal of International Economics and Economic Policy, European Journal of Political Economy

Computer skills

Windows, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Econometric Views, PC-Fiml, Gauss, Matlab.

Languages: Basic, Lisp, HTML-Javascript.