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Heterogeneous Consumers and Policy Shocks (with E. Anderson and A. Inoue)
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 48 (8), 2016, 1877-1888

In-sample Inference and Forecasting in Misspecified Factor Models (with M. Carrasco)
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 34 (3), 2016, 313-338

Model Comparisons in Unstable Environments (with R. Giacomini)
International Economic Review, 57 (2), 2016, 369-392

Forecasting in Nonstationary Environments: What Works and What Doesn’t in Reduced-Form and Structural Models (with R. Giacomini)
Annual Review of Economics, 7, 2015, 207-229

Macroeconomic Uncertainty Indices Based on Nowcast and Forecast Error Distributions (with T. Sekhposyan)
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 105 (5), 2015, 650-55
Indices in Excel [+]

Can Oil Prices Forecast Exchange Rates? An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Commodity Prices and Exchange Rates (with D. Ferraro and K. Rogoff)
Journal of International Money and Finance, 54 (1), 2015, 116-141

Evaluating Predictive Densities of US Output Growth and Inflation in a Large Macroeconomic Data Set (with T. Sehkposyan)
International Journal of Forecasting, 30 (3), 2014, 662-682

Comment on Central Bank Macroeconomic Forecasting During the Financial Crisis: the European Central Bank and Federal Reserve Bank of New York Experiences by Alessi, Ghysels, Onorante, Peach and Potter
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 32 (4), 2014, 510-514

Exchange Rate Predictability
Journal of Economic Literature, 51 (4), 2013, 1063-1119
Matlab codes [+] Appendix [+]

Conditional Predictive Density Evaluation in the Presence of Instabilities (with T. Sehkposyan)
Journal of Econometrics, 177 (2), 2013, 199-212

Comment on Taylor Rule Exchange Rate Forecasting during the Financial Crisis by T. Molodtsova and D. Papell
NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2012, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013

Advances in Forecasting under Instability, In G. Elliott and A. Timmermann (eds.) Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Volume 2B, 1203-1324, Amsterdam: Elsevier-North Holland, 2013
Appendix [+]

The Changing Relationship between Commodity Prices and Equity Prices in Commodity Exporting Countries
IMF Economic Review, 60 (4), 2012, 533-539

Out-of-Sample Forecast Tests Robust to the Choice of Window Size (with A. Inoue)
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 30 (3), 2012, 432-453
Simple Matlab code to implement the tests proposed in this paper [+]
Monte Carlo simulation codes [+]

Information Criteria for Impulse Response Function Matching Estimation of DSGE Models (with A. Hall, A. Inoue, and J. Nason)
Journal of Econometrics, 170 (2), 2012, 499-518
Matlab codes [+]

Comment on Forecast Rationality Tests Based on Multi-Horizon Bounds by A. Patton and A. Timmermann
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 30 (1), 2012, 25-29

Identifying the Sources of Instabilities in Macroeconomic Fluctuations (with A. Inoue)
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 93 (4), 2011, 1186-1204
Matlab codes: Main empirical results [+] · Additional Not-for-Publication Appendix [+]

Understanding Models’ Forecasting Performance (with T. Sekhposyan)
Journal of Econometrics, 164 (1), 2011, 158-172
Matlab codes [+]

What is the Importance of Monetary and Fiscal Shocks in Explaining US Macroeconomic Fluctuations? (with S. Zubairy)
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 43 (6), 2011, 1247-1270
Not-for-Publication Appendix [+]

Testing for Weak Identification in Possibly Nonlinear Models (with A. Inoue)
Journal of Econometrics, 161 (2), 2011, 246-261

Have Models’ Forecasting Performance Changed over Time, and When? (with T. Sekhposyan)
International Journal of Forecasting, 26 (4), 2010, 808-835
Matlab codes [+] · Additional appendix [+]

Comment on Exchange Rate Models Are Not As Bad As You Think by C. Engel, N. Mark and K. West in D. Acemoglu, K. Rogoff and M. Woodford (eds.) NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2007, vol. 22, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2008

Barbara Rossi is an ICREA Professor of Economics at Pompeu Fabra University. She previously has been an Associate Professor with tenure at the department of Economics at Duke University, after earning her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Econometrics, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a CEPR Fellow, and currently serves as a Director of the International Association of Applied Econometrics. In the past, she served as a member of the Euro-Area Business Cycle Dating Committee.

Professor Rossi specializes in the fields of time series econometrics, as well as applied international finance and macroeconomics. Her current research focuses on forecasting and macroeconometrics. Professor Rossi has published her research findings in the Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the International Economic Review, Econometric Theory, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of International Money and Finance and Macroeconomic Dynamics. She also wrote a chapter on “Advances in Forecasting under Model Instabilities” for the Handbook of Economic Forecasting (Elsevier-North Holland eds.), a chapter on “Forecasting in Macroeconomics” for the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Macroeconomics, and an article for the Journal of Economic Literature.

Along with her teaching and research responsibilities, Professor Rossi holds various other professional positions. She serves as the Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics. She has served as a coeditor of the International Journal of Central Banking, and associate editor of Quantitative Economics, an associate editor for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. She was the Program Chair for the 2016 Econometric Society European Summer Meetings and the 2014 International Association of Applied Econometrics Conference.

Barbara Rossi’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation through Grants NSF #0647627 and #1022125, the Marie Curie Fellowship program, the Spanish Ministry of Research and the ERC through Grant 615608.

Professor Rossi has presented her findings at a variety of professional conferences and meetings, including the Econometric Society Meetings, the SED meetings, the Joint Statistical Meetings, the NBER-NSF Time Series Conference, the NBER, the IAAE as well as the AEA meetings. She has held visiting researcher at the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Montreal in Canada, UC San Diego, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Philadelphia, Norges Bank, Bank of France, the New York Fed and ENSAE-CREST in France.

Selected Publications

• “Identifying the Sources of Model Misspecification”, (with C. H. Kuo and A. Inoue), Journal of Monetary Economics, 110, 2020, 1-18.
• “Alternative Tests for Correct Specification of Conditional Forecast Densities”, (with T. Sekhposyan), Journal of Econometrics, 208, 2019, 638-657.
• “Detecting and Predicting Forecast Breakdown”, (with R. Giacomini), Review of Economic Studies, 6 (2), 2009, 669-705.
• “Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices?”, (with Y. Chen and K. Rogoff), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (3), 2010, 1145-1194. Reprinted in: M. Taylor and M. Manzur (eds.), Recent Developments in Exchange Rate Economics, Edward Elgar.
• “Exchange Rate Predictability”, Journal of Economic Literature, 51 (4), 2013, 1063–1119.
• “Advances in Forecasting in Unstable Environments”, Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Vol. 2B, G. Elliott and A. Timmermann (eds.), Elsevier-North Holland, 2013, 1203-1324.

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VAR-based Granger-causality Tests in the Presence of Instabilities, (with Y. Wang), Stata Journal, 19 (4), 2019, 883-899.

Implementing Tests For Forecast Evaluation in the Presence of Instabilities, (with M. Soupre), Stata Journal, 17 (4), 2017, 850-865.

Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee: Euro Area Out of Recession, in Unusually Weak Expansion, October 2015.

When Economic Models are Unable to fit the Data, What can Researchers do? (with A. Inoue and C. Kuo)

VoxEu.org, 24 November 2014. 

Density Forecasts in Economics, Forecasting and Policymaking

Els Opuscles del CREI, 37, September 2014.

Eurozone Mired in Recession Pause (CEPR Business Cycle Dating Committee: D. Giannone, R. Gürkaynak, M. Merz, R. Portes, L. Reichlin, A. Ritschl, B. Rossi, P. Weil and K. Whelan)

VoxEu.org, 14 June 2014.

Are Exchange Rates Predictable?

VoxEu.org, 14 November 2013.

Where Are Commodity Prices Headed Next? Look at the Exchange Rates (with Y. Chen and K. Rogoff)

VoxEu.org, 8 September 2008.

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Barcelona School of Economics

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Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics

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International Association for Applied Econometrics

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