Fiorella De Fiore is Research Adviser at the Bank for International Settlements and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She previously held the positions of Head of Monetary Policy at the the Bank for International Settlements, and Adviser in the Monetary Policy Research Division and the Financial Research Division of the European Central Bank. She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute and a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. Her main research is in the field of monetary and financial economics, and focuses on macro-financial linkages and their implications for monetary policy. She has published in the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Economic Journal, and the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, among others. Additional information can be found on her webpage: fiorelladefiore.jimdo.com.