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Personal profile
Biography
Silvio Contessi joined Monash Business School in 2015 as a Senior Lecturer and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Banking and Finance.
His principal research interests are banking, macro-finance, and international finance.
He is the Lead Investigator of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2019-22) on "Gross credit flows, credit reallocation, and the macroeconomy."
Before joining Monash, Silvio was a research economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2008-2015) and an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis (2012-2015).
He received his B.A./M.A. from Università Bocconi (Milan, Italy) in 1999, and was awarded his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) in 2004 and 2008, respectively.
Silvio is a research associate at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and of the Monash Center for Development Economics and Sustainability.
Monash teaching commitment
Current:
BEX6013 - Issues in Financial Intermediaries (Ph.D.)
BFF3331 - International Banking and Finance
Recent:
BFF5230 - Global Financial Markets (M.A.F.)
BFF5050 - Global Banking: Institutions and Issues (M.B.F)
BFF5130 - Case Studies and Research in Banking and Finance (M.B.F)
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Projects
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Gross credit flows, credit reallocation, and the macroeconomy
Contessi, S., Dong, M. & Minetti, R.
15/08/19 → 14/08/22
Project: Research
Research output
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Credit derivatives and bank systemic risk: risk enhancing or reducing?
Halili, A., Fenech, J-P. & Contessi, S., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In : Finance Research Letters. 9 p., 101930.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The international spread of COVID-19 stock market collapses
Contessi, S. & De Pace, P., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In : Finance Research Letters. 11 p., 101894.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Mildly explosive dynamics in U.S. fixed income markets
Contessi, S., De Pace, P. & Guidolin, M., Dec 2020, In : European Journal of Operational Research. 287, 2, p. 712-724 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Financial choice and international trade
Cho, I., Contessi, S., Russ, K. N. & Valderrama, D., Jan 2019, In : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 157, p. 297-319 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Multinational firms׳ entry and productivity: Some aggregate implications of firm-level heterogeneity
Contessi, S., Dec 2015, In : Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 61, p. 61-80 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Postgraduate Coursework Teaching
Contessi, Silvio (Recipient), Dec 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)