Davide Debortoli
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27
08005 Barcelona
- Fiscal Policy, Macroeconomics and Monetary Policy

Working Papers
Previously circulated as “Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy Easing and Tightening”
Short Bio and Picture
Davide Debortoli is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), a Research Associate at the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), a Barcelona School of Economics Research Professor (BSE) and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), a Visiting Scholar at the Norges Bank, and was awarded the Wim Duisenberg Fellowship from the Europan Central Bank (ECB) in
Selected Publications:
- Optimal Fiscal Policy without Commitment: Revisiting Lucas-Stokey, (with R. Nunes and P. Yared), Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
- Understanding the Size of Government Spending Multiplier: It’s in the Sign, (with R. Barnichon and C. Matthes), The Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
- On the Empirical (Ir)Relevance of the Zero Lower Bound Constraint, (with J. Galí and L. Gambetti), NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 34, 2019, 141-170
- Optimal Time-Consistent Government Debt Maturity, (with R. Nunes and P. Yared), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132 (1), 2017, 55-102.
- Fiscal Policy under Loose Commitment, (with R. Nunes), Journal of Economic Theory, 145 (3), 2010, 1005-1032.
Publications
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American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 16(4), 2024, 279–310
American Economic Review: Insights, 4(2), 2021, 255–270
Journal of Political Economy, 129(5), 2021, 1640-1665
The Review of Economic Studies, 89(1), 2021, 87-117
Economic Policy, 36 (106), 2021, 195-236
Economic Policy, 35 (104), 2020, 587-634
Economic Policy, 35(103), 2020, 461-517
NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2019, 34, 2020, 141-170
The Economic Journal, 129 (621), 2019, 2010-2038
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