Davide Romelli

Davide Romelli

Associate Professor of Economics

Trinity College Dublin

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I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, a Research Affiliate of IM-TCD (International Macro-TCD) and SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, a Research Fellow of the BAFFI-CAREFIN Centre, Bocconi University, a Research Associate of the Centre for Economics, Policy and History, and a Chercheur affilié at OFCE-SciencesPo. I am also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Finance & Economics and International Economics and Economic Policy.

I am a member of the CBDC Academic Advisory Group, jointly run by HM Treasury and the Bank of England, and the Monetary Policy Expert Panel of the ECON Committee of the European Parliament.

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Interests
  • Central Banking
  • Central Bank Independence
  • Monetary Economics
  • International Macro-Finance
Education
  • PhD in Economics, 2015

    ESSEC Business School & THEMA-University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

  • MSc in Economic Analysis, 2011

    University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

  • MSc in Banking and Finance, 2009

    Catholic University of Milan, Italy

  • BSc in Financial Markets and Institutions, 2006

    Catholic University of Milan, Italy

Data

CBS Dataset

The cbspeeches.com contains the dataset of central banker speeches (CBS Dataset) collected for Campiglio, Deyris, Romelli, and Scalisi (2025). The dataset features 35,487 unique speeches from 131 central banks, for the period going from the beginning of January 1986 (date of the first online speech by a central bank) to the end of December 2023.

Data on Central Bank Independence

The cbidata.org website provides the data on indices of Central Bank Independence for 155 countries between 1923 and 2023.

Data on Central Bank Involvement in Supervision

Data on the index of Central Bank Involvement in Supervision can be downloaded here: Central Bank Involvement in Supervision Index.

Current Work

Long run inflation: persistence and central bank independence
with Angelos Athanasopoulos and Donato Masciandaro, BAFFI Centre Research Paper No. 237, 2025.

Warning words in a warming world: Central bank communication and climate change
with Emanuele Campiglio, Jérôme Deyris and Ginevra Scalisi, LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 418, 2025.

New Wine in Old Bottles: Unintended Financial Dominance and Central Banking Myopia
with Donato Masciandaro and Riccardo Russo, BAFFI Centre Research Paper No. 236, 2024.

Unravelling household financial assets and demographic characteristics: a novel data perspective
with Simone Arrigoni, Agustin Bénétrix and Tara McIndoe-Calder, Bank for International Settlements, IFC Bulletin No 62, 2024.

Trends in Central Bank Independence: A De-jure Perspective
BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper No. 217, 2024.

Fiscal Dominance, Monetary Policy and Exchange Rates: Lessons from Early-Modern Venice with Donato Masciandaro and Stefano Ugolini, BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper No. 202, 2023.

Women and Governance: Central Bank Boards and Monetary Policy
with Donato Masciandaro and Paola Profeta, Trinity Economic Papers (TEP) Working Paper No. 1123, 2023.

Monetary policy and financial markets: evidence from Twitter traffic
with Donato Masciandaro and Gaia Rubera, Trinity Economic Papers (TEP) Working Paper No. 1023, 2023.

Central Bank Independence and Fiscal Space with Angelos Athanasopoulos, Nicolò Fraccaroli and Andreas Kern.

Does central bank independence lead to monetary discipline? with Etienne Farvaque and Alexander Jung.

Mandate-related Central Bank Speeches and Forecast Dispersion with Thomas Lustenberger and Enzo Rossi.