Emiliano Santoro

Emiliano Santoro is a Professor holding the Bicentenary Chair in Economics at the University of Copenhagen and Danmarks Nationalbank since March 2018. He also serves as the PhD Placement Director at the Economics Department of the University of Copenhagen since May 2019. His academic career includes previous positions as Associate Professor (December 2012-March 2018) and Assistant Professor (September 2008-October 2012) at the University of Copenhagen, as well as a UniCredit Foscolo Fellowship at the Catholic University of Milan (October 2010-September 2014).

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 2009, following a Doctorate in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan (2006), an M.Sc. in Economics with Distinction from the University of York (2004), and a B.Sc. in Economics Summa Cum Laude from the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (2002).

Professor Santoro's research focuses on macroeconomics and monetary economics, with particular emphasis on business cycle analysis and monetary policy design. His work spans four main strands: the connection between credit markets and the real economy, information frictions and consumers' inflation expectations, inter-sectoral linkages in intermediate goods markets, and asymmetries in monetary policy transmission. His recent publications explore topics such as government spending multipliers, house prices and fiscal policy, leverage effects on business cycles, and credit cycle dynamics, demonstrating a consistent focus on how monetary policy interacts with financial frictions and sectoral heterogeneity.

His research has been published in top journals including American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics, with several papers accumulating substantial citations and policy relevance. His article 'Leverage and Deepening Business Cycle Skewness' has received 25 citation indexes and 29 policy citations, while 'The Government Spending Multiplier in a Multi-Sector Model' has garnered 20 citation indexes and 9 policy citations.

• Research areas: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Business Cycle Analysis
• Teaching: Macroeconomics III, Advanced Macroeconomics: Business Cycles
• Research group: EPRU

Professor Santoro serves as a peer reviewer for numerous prestigious journals including Economica, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Economics Letters. He has organized and participated in various academic events such as the Workshop on Macroeconomics, Financial Frictions and Asset Prices, and has served as a visiting scholar at institutions including EIEF in Rome and CREI at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His work has been referenced in multiple policy sources and has attracted significant attention on social media and academic platforms.