Jonathan Benchimol's Research

Journal articles

21. Sanctions and Russian Online Prices, with Luigi Palumbo.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Elsevier, Forthcoming.
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20. Desirable Banking Competition and Stability, with Caroline Bozou.
Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, Volume 73, Number 101266, August 2024.
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19. Central Bank Objectives, Monetary Policy Rules, and Limited Information.
Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, Volume 80, Number 103604, June 2024.
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18. Stock Market Reaction to Monetary Policy Surprises Under Uncertainty, with Yossi Saadon and Nimrod Segev.
International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, Volume 89, Number 102783, October 2023.
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16. Forecasting CPI Inflation Components with Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks, with Oren Barkan, Itamar Caspi, Eliya Cohen, Allon Hammer, and Noam Koenigstein.
International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, Volume 39, Issue 3, Pages 1145-1162, July-September 2023.
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15. Measuring Communication Quality of Interest Rate Announcements, with Itamar Caspi and Sophia Kazinnik.
The Economists’ Voice, De Gruyter, Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 43-53, June 2023.
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14. Do Expert Experience and Characteristics Affect Inflation Forecasts?, with Makram El-Shagi and Yossi Saadon.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, Volume 201, Pages 205-226, September 2022.
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13. The Interaction Between Domestic Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Policy in Israel, with Inon Gamrasni, Michael Kahn, Sigal Ribon, Yossi Saadon, Noam Ben-Ze’ev, Asaf Segal and Yitzchak Shizgal.
Economic Modelling, Elsevier, Volume 112, Number 105872, June 2022.
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12. The COVID-19 Inflation Weighting in Israel, with Itamar Caspi and Yuval Levin.
The Economists’ Voice, De Gruyter, Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 5-15, June 2022.
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11. Text Mining Methodologies with R: An Application to Central Bank Texts, with Sophia Kazinnik and Yossi Saadon.
Machine Learning with Applications, Elsevier, Volume 8, Number 100286, June 2022.
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10. Federal Reserve Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Sophia Kazinnik and Yossi Saadon.
Covid Economics, CEPR Press, Volume 79, Pages 218-256, May 2021.
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8. Forecast Performance in Times of Terrorism, with Makram El-Shagi.
Economic Modelling, Elsevier, Volume 91, Pages 386-402, September 2020.
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7. Time-Varying Money Demand and Real Balance Effects, with Irfan Qureshi.
Economic Modelling, Elsevier, Volume 87, Pages 197-211, May 2020.
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2. Risk Aversion in the Eurozone.
Research in Economics, Elsevier, Volume 68, Issue 1, Pages 39-56, March 2014.
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Book Chapters

1. Historical and Desirable Policy Rules in Israel: A DSGE Perspective.
In: Yaron, A., and Strawczynski, M. (Eds.), Monetary Policy in Times of Price Stability. Bank of Israel, Ch. 10, pp. 339–380, 2022 (in Hebrew).
Original Title: כללי מדיניות היסטוריים ורצויים בישראל: פרספקטיבה של שיווי משקל כללי סטוכסטי דינמי
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2. The Inflation Environment Effect on Monetary Policy Communication in Israel, with Yoav Soffer and Yossi Saadon.
In: Yaron, A., and Strawczynski, M. (Eds.), Monetary Policy in Times of Price Stability. Bank of Israel, Ch. 11, pp. 381–410, 2022 (in Hebrew).
Original Title: השפעת סביבת האינפלציה על אופן התקשור של המדיניות המוניטרית בישראל
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3. The Legal Case for a Central Bank Labour Mandate, with Samuel Dahan.
In: Banks, K., Chaykowski, R., and Gomez, R. (Eds.), Rethinking the Foundations of Workplace Law. University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
Under review | Chapter | Updated: January 2023

Working papers

Central Bank Density Forecasts: Do Higher-order Moments Matter?, with Ryan Rholes and Tatevik Sekhposyan.
In preparation | Paper | Updated: March 2024

Federal Reserve Communication in Times of Crisis, with Sophia Kazinnik and Yossi Saadon.
Submitted | Paper | Updated: February 2024

Work in progress

Communication and Transparency Through Central Bank Texts, with Sophia Kazinnik and Yossi Saadon.
In preparation. Presented at ASSA/AEA Annual Conference (2020), Harvard University, Houston University, ProQuest and Bank of Israel. Available upon request

Risk Aversion, Credit and Banking, with Caroline Bozou.
In preparation. Presented at ASSA/AEA Annual Conference (2020), Boston Fed, and Bank of Israel. Available upon request

Present-Biased Households and Monetary Policy, with Lahcen Bounader and Doron Kliger.
In preparation. Presented at ASSA/AEA Annual Conference (2022).

Referee activity

Applied Economics (5), Applied Financial Economics, Building and Environment (2), Bulletin of Economic Research (2), CESifo Economic Studies, China Economic Review (3), Contemporary Economics (3), Economic Analysis and Policy (4), Economic Change and Restructuring (3), Economic Modelling (16), Economic Systems, Economics and Politics, Economics Bulletin, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Empirica (2), Empirical Economics (3), Expert Systems with Applications (17), Financial Innovation (3), Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (5), International Finance (3), International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Forecasting, International Review of Financial Analysis (2), Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (3), Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Money and Finance (3), Journal of Macroeconomics (6), Journal of Money Credit and Banking (2), Latin American Journal of Central Banking, Macroeconomic Dynamics (6), National Research Foundation (2), New Zealand Economic Papers, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, PLOS One (12), Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (5), Review of International Economics, Southern Economic Journal (2).

Research visits

– Harvard University (Cambridge, USA) – Department of Economics, Aug. 2019 to Jul. 2020.
– Bank of Finland (Helsinki, Finland) – Research Department, Mar. 2018.
– Romanian Academy (Bucharest, Romania) – National Institute of Economic Research (INCE), Nov. 2017.
– Henan University (Kaifeng, China) – School of Economics, Aug. to Sep. 2016.

International conferences

– European Economic Association (EEA), 39th Annual Congress, Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 26-31, 2024 (session chair).
– International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE), London, UK, June 21-24, 2022.
– Advanced Analytics: New Methods and Applications for Macroeconomic Policy, London, UK, July 21-22, 2022.
– Money, Macro and Finance Society (MMF), 52nd Annual Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 1-3, 2021.
– Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA), Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, July 7-9, 2021.
– Asian Meeting of Econometric Society (AMES), Annual Meeting, Miri, Malaysia, June 25-27, 2021.
– American Economic Association (ASSA), 133nd Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, January 3-5, 2021.
– European Economic Association (EEA), 35th Annual Congress, Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 24-27, 2020.
– American Economic Association (ASSA), 132nd Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, January 3-5, 2020.
– CEPR Network on Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison (MMCN), 3rd Annual Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, June 13-14, 2019.
– CEPR Network on Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison (MMCN), 2nd Annual Conference, Stanford, California, USA, June 7-8, 2018.
– Money, Macro and Finance Society (MMF), 49th Annual Conference, London, United Kingdom, September 5-7, 2017 (session chair).
– CEPR Network on Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison (MMCN), 1st Annual Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, June 19-20, 2017.
– Money, Macro and Finance Society (MMF), 47th Annual Conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom, September 9-11, 2015 (session chair).
– International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA), 25th International Conference, Sarasota, Florida, USA, May 17-20, 2015.
– Money, Macro and Finance Society (MMF), 46th Annual Conference, Durham, United Kingdom, September 17-19, 2014.
– International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA), 23rd International Conference, Montréal, Canada, May 29-June 1, 2013.
– European Research Group (GdRE), 29th International Symposium, Nantes, France, June 28-29, 2012.
– International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS), 4th International Conference, Valencia, Spain, June 18-20, 2012.
– International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA), 21st International Conference, Eilat, Israel, May 29-June 01, 2011.
– International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA), 20th International Conference, Las Vegas, USA, May 23-26, 2010.
– International Trade and Finance Association (IT&FA), 19th International Conference, Beijing, China, May 27-30, 2009.

National conferences

– Israel Economic Association (IEA), 34th Annual Conference, Rishon LeZion, Israel, June 14, 2018.
– French Economic Association (AFSE), 61th Annual Conference, Paris, France, July 2-4, 2012.
– Spanish Economic Association (SAEe), 36th Annual Conference, Málaga, Spain, December 14-17, 2011 (session chair).
– French Economic Association (AFSE), 60th Annual Conference, Nanterre, France, September 8-9, 2011.

Discussions

– “How Does BigTech Credit Affect Monetary Policy Transmission?” by Yiping Huang, Xiang Li, Han Qiu, and Changhua Yu.
Advanced Analytics: New Methods and Applications for Macroeconomic Policy, London, United Kinkdom, July 21-22, 2022.
– “The Voice of Monetary Policy” by Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Tho Pham, and Oleksandr Talavera.
Advanced Analytics: New Methods and Applications for Macroeconomic Policy, London, United Kinkdom, November 3-5, 2021.
– “Aino 3.0 : Macroprudential Policies for a Small Open Economy” by Aino Silvo and Fabio Verona.
CEPR Network on Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison, Frankfurt, Germany, June 13-14, 2019.
– “Shadow Banking and Market Discipline on Traditional Banks” by Anil Ari, Matthieu Darracq-Pariès, Christoffer Kok, and Dawid Zochowski.
CEPR Conference on Systemic Risk and Macroprudential Policy, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 17-18, 2018.
– “Evaluating the Macroeconomic Effects of the ECB’s Unconventional Monetary Policies” by Sarah Mouabbi and Jean-Guillaume Sahuc.
CEPR Network on Macroeconomic Modelling and Model Comparison, Frankfurt, Germany, June 19-20, 2017.

Presented by coauthors

– American Economic Association (ASSA), 136nd Annual Meeting, San Antonio, USA, January 5-7, 2024 (Luigi Palumbo).
– European Economic Association (EEA), 38th Annual Congress, Barcelona, Spain, August 28-Sept. 1, 2023 (Luigi Palumbo).
– National Bank of Ukraine and National Bank of Poland 2023 Annual Research Conference: Economic Policies during Wartime and Post-War Recovery Conference, Kraków, Poland, 22-23 June, 2023 (Luigi Palumbo).
– RCEA-Europe International Conference on Global Threats to the World Economy, Online, February 2-3, 2023 (Luigi Palumbo).
– Money, Macro and Finance Society (MMF), 50th Anniversary Conference, London, United Kingdom, September 4-6, 2019 (Caroline Bozou).
– Dynare, 15th Annual Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 9-10, 2019 (Sergey Ivashchenko).
– Society for Economic Measurement, 6th Annual Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, August 16-18, 2019 (Caroline Bozou).
– Western Economic Association International (WEAI), 94th Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, June 22-July 2, 2019 (Sophia Kazinnik).
– Henan University and INFER, 5th Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics, Kaifeng, China, March 29-31, 2019 (Sergey Ivashchenko).
– Western Economic Association International (WEAI), 15th International Conference, Tokyo, Japan, March 21-24, 2019 (André Fourçans).
– Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET), 34th Annual Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 12-15, 2018 (Makram El-Shagi).
– Money, Macro and Finance Society (MMF), 49th Annual Conference, London, United Kingdom, September 5-7, 2017 (Sergey Ivashchenko).
– International Economic Association, 18th World Congress, Mexico City, Mexico, June 19-23, 2017 (Lahcen Bounader).