Publications
Angela Capolongo & Claudia Pacella (2020). Forecasting inflation in the euro area: countries matter!. Empirical Economics, 1-23.
Angela Capolongo & Daniel Gros (2020). The ECB is running out of policy space: Can fiscal policy help?. Economics and Business Letters, 9(3), 216-220.
Working Papers
Forecasting inflation in the euro area: countries matter! (2019), with C. Pacella, Temi di Discussione (Working Papers) 1224, Bank of Italy.
Works in Progress
“Cyclical Behavior of Markups: Theory and Firm-level Evidence”
Using confidential firm-level data from the National Bank of Belgium, I document the heterogeneous response of firms’ markups to the 2008 financial crisis. Overall, markups increased in the aftermath of the crisis and the effect was larger for highly financially constrained firms. I show that standard heterogeneous-firm models, featuring monopolistic competition and variable markups, are unable to replicate these patterns. I then introduce endogenous demand shifters which respond to firm investment in market share (e.g. quality). I show that the interaction of an increase in the cost of procuring inputs combined with an endogenous quality downgrading can rationalize the observed changes in firm-level markups.
“Inflation expectations and non-standard monetary policies”
In this paper, I analyze the impact of key European Central Bank’s unconventional monetary policy announcements on inflation expectations, measured by Euro Area five-year Inflation Linked Swap rates five years ahead, since the aftermath of the crisis. I control for market liquidity and uncertainty measures, change in oil price shock and macroeconomic news. The results show that the impact of the European Central Bank’s announcements has been positive during the period under observation. Along the line of the expansionary monetary policy measures implemented, the agents have been revising upwards their long term inflation expectations. This means that the unconventional monetary policy measures were effective.