Giovanni Melina

Giovanni Melina is an economist in the Research Department of the IMF. Before joining the Fund, he worked as an Associate Professor of Macroeconomics at City University London, after obtaining a PhD in Economics from Birkbeck, University of London. His research focuses on understanding the sources and propagation of macroeconomic shocks, on the design of monetary and fiscal stabilization policies, and the link between macroeconomic policy and growth in developing countries. Recently his research has focused also on the effects of climate change on macroeconomic outcomes of disaster-prone countries.

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Macroeconomics of Climate Change: Economics of Adaptation (edX)

Learn about adaptation, including the policies and strategies for promoting and mainstreaming it. This online course, presented by the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development, Fiscal Affairs Department, and Research Department, serves as the fourth in a six-part "Macroeconomics of Climate Change (MCCx)" series. [...]

Public Debt, Investment, and Growth: The DIG and DIGNAR Models (edX)

This online course, presented by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Research Department, explains how to analyze the relation between public investment, growth, and public debt dynamics, using two dynamic structural models: the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG) model and the Debt, Investment, Growth and Natural Resources (DIGNAR) [...]