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Francesco Lippi is an academic researcher from Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monetary policy & Inflation. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 116 publications. Previous affiliations of Francesco Lippi include Economic Policy Institute & Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance.
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Papers
A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown
Fernando Alvarez,Fernando Alvarez,David Argente,Francesco Lippi,Francesco Lippi,Francesco Lippi +5 more
TL;DR: The optimal lockdown policy for a planner who wants to control the fatalities of a pandemic while minimizing the output costs of the lockdown is studied using the SIR epidemiology model and a linear economy to formalize the planner's dynamic control problem.
Oil and the macroeconomy: a quantitative structural analysis
Francesco Lippi,Andrea Nobili +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors model an open economy where macroeconomic variables fluctuate in response to oil supply shocks, as well as aggregate demand and supply shocks generated domestically and abroad, and identify five fundamental shocks underlying the fluctuations of the (real) oil price, the US activity and the global business cycle.
Central Bank Independence, Centralization of Wage Bargaining, Inflation and Unemployment - Theory and Some Evidence
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework is proposed to investigate the effects of central bank independence, of the degree of centralization of wage bargaining and of the interaction between those institutional variables, on real wages, unemployment and inflation.
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Technological change and the households’ demand for currency☆
TL;DR: In this paper, an inventory model is presented where the withdrawal technology is explicitly modeled and both the level and the interest rate elasticity of cash holdings depend on the withdraw technology available to households, based on the diffusion of cash withdrawal points measured at city level.
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A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lock-down, Testing, and Tracing
Fernando Alvarez,David Argente,Francesco Lippi +2 more
- 01 Sep 2021
TL;DR: In this article, the optimal lock-down policy for a planner who controls the fatalities of COVID-19 while minimizing the output costs of the lockdown was studied. And test-tracing-quarantine was shown to be complementary to lockdown.
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