Email: laurent.ferrara [at] skema.edu /// X-Twitter: @FerraraLaurent
- Full Professor of International Economics SKEMA Business School
- President, International Institute of Forecasting
- Founder of the Macro Forecasting section at International Institute of Forecasting
- Board of Directors, French Economic Association (AFSE)
- Chair and Founder of the French Business Cycle Dating Committee
- Research Fellow, EconomiX, University Paris Nanterre
- Associate Researcher, CAMA, Australian National University
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Forecasting
- Associate Editor, Journal of International Money and Finance
- Adjunct Prof. Paris School of Economics and Keio University in Tokyo
- Former Head of International Macro Division at Banque de France
Some (relatively) recent news:
- We are preparing the International Symposium on Forecasting in 2026 (June 28 – Jully 1st), in Montreal: Join us !!!
- Presentations at Kobe Univ. and Keio Univ., Oct 2025
- New book on economic cycles (in French): « Les Cycles Economiques: Une Approche Empirique »
- Comment l’incertitude de politique économique risque d’affecter la croissance en France, The Conversation, November 2024
- The business cycle and economic policy uncertainty in France, Econbrowser, November 2024
- New accepted paper in JIMF: « Commodity currencies revisited: The role of global commodity price uncertainty »
- 8th Macro Workshop Banque de France – AMSE, June 2024 check the program
- New NBER WP: The predictive power of the term spread and financial variables for economic activity across countries (with Menzie D. Chinn, 2024)
- Post The Conversation 7 Feb. 23 (in French): « L’inflation importée: un facteur déterminant de la flambée des prix »
- Post Skema ThinkForward, 16 Jan. 23: « Forecasting the present: The role of Google data in assessing real-time economic conditions »
- UK turmoil: post on The Conversation (in French)
- Keynote lecture on « Effects of Climate Shocks on production in European Economies », OECD, Sep. 2022. Slides Ferrara_ClimateShocks_OECD_Sep22
- High-frequency macro risks in EA & the U.S., see our VoxEU post
- Announcement of the exit of the Covid recession in France, see our VoXEU post
- Launch of the French Business Cycle Dating Committee, VoxEU post, slides: DatingFrance_SemBeta_Jan2022
- Keynote speech, European Commission Conference on « Big data and Economic Forecasting », March 2021. Slides: Ferrara_JRC_Mar21
- New book « Méthodes de Prévision en Finance », published by Economica (Sep. 2020, with A. Charles and O. Darné)
- Springer Book on « International Macroeconomics in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis », edited by L. Ferrara, I. Hernando and D. Marconi
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