Marco Ratto is Senior Expert at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy. He studied engineering at the University of Genoa and obtained his Ph.D in Engineering in 1998.
His research covers various aspects of macro-economic modelling and related methodological and computational tools. His recent research activity focussed on macroeconomic nonlinearities, the economic impact of pandemic and energy price shocks. His research also addressed issues like current account adjustments in EMU countries and in the global economy, business cycle heterogeneity within the EMU and between the euroarea and the US, cross-country and global spillovers and the use of DSGE models in forecasting. On the methodological side, he develops methods for simulation and estimation (linear and non-linear), parallel computation, sensitivity and identification analysis for DSGE models, and he is member of the Dynare team.
He is coauthor of more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals, in different fields of modelling (engineering, environmental and computer sciences, macro-economics).
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Europe’s trade surplus, international relative prices, and the productivity growth gap
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- Exchange Rates 
- International trade 
- Productivity and Innovation
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The euro area’s COVID-19 recession through the lens of an estimated structural macro model
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- COVID-19 
- Macroeconomic policy 
- Europe's nations and regions
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Drivers of the post-crisis slump in the Eurozone and the US
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- Global crisis