Luca Gambetti

Luca Gambetti is a researcher at the Department of Economics and Economic History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), affiliated with the Center for the study of Organizations and Decisions in Economics (CODE) and the Grup de Recerca d'Anàlisi Macroeconòmica. His primary research focuses on macroeconomic dynamics, business cycles, and monetary policy analysis. He holds a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (2006) and a Laurea in Economics from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (1999). Previously, he served as a Teaching Assistant at Pompeu Fabra University (2002–2006).

• Research Interests: Business cycle fluctuations, inflation dynamics, structural VAR models, monetary policy shocks, and labor market analysis.
• Key Projects: Co-leads projects on labor markets and education (2022–2026), migration and fiscal policy (2019–2022), and labor market macroeconomic analysis (2016–2019).
• Publications: Focuses on topics like U.S. economy modeling, wage cyclicality in Latin America, and loan supply shocks. Recent work includes structural factor models and noisy monetary policy effects.
• Labs/Teams: Active in the Grup de Recerca d'Anàlisi Macroeconòmica and collaborates internationally on quantitative economics methods.

His research bridges econometric methods with macroeconomic policy analysis, emphasizing structural models and empirical validation.