Barbara Rossi is an ICREA Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and a Research Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics .

Professor Rossi is a CEPR Fellow, a member of the CEPR Business Cycle Dating Committee, and a Director of the International Association of Applied Econometrics.

She previously has been an Associate Professor with tenure at the department of Economics at Duke University, after earning her PhD from Princeton University.

She has also been visiting researcher at the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Montreal in Canada, UC San Diego, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Philadelphia, Norges Bank, Bank of France, and ENSAE-CREST in France.

Professor Rossi specializes in the fields of Time Series Econometrics, as well as Applied International Finance and Macroeconomics. Her current research focuses on Forecasting and Macroeconometrics.

She has published her research findings in the Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the International Economic Review, Econometric Theory, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Econometrics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of International Money and Finance and Macroeconomic Dynamics.

She also wrote a chapter on “Advances in Forecasting under Model Instabilities” for the Handbook of Economic Forecasting (Elsevier-North Holland eds.), a chapter on “Forecasting in Macroeconomics” for the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Macroeconomics, and an article for the Journal of Economic Literature.

Barbara Rossi’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation through Grants NSF #0647627 and #1022125, the Marie Curie Fellowship program, the Spanish Ministry of Research and the ERC through Grant 615608.