Antonio RIBBA

Antonio RIBBA is a Full Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics 'Marco Biagi', University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His research focuses on macroeconomic policy analysis, structural VAR modeling, and the effects of monetary/fiscal policies on inflation, unemployment, and business cycles. He teaches courses on public policy analysis, financial scenarios, and macroeconomic policies.

Research interests include monetary policy transmission mechanisms, fiscal multipliers in Eurozone economies, oil price shocks, and the long-run relationship between inflation and unemployment. His work employs advanced econometric techniques like structural VARs to disentangle the impacts of supply and demand shocks.

Recent publications analyze fiscal dominance in the US, oil price effects on Eurozone small economies, and unemployment responses to policy shocks in peripheral Euro-area countries. He collaborates with scholars like Cavallo and Dallari on topics such as Eurozone inflation dynamics and policy spillovers.