Scholars

Senior Scholar Gennaro Zezza is an associate professor of economics at the University of Cassino, Italy. He is a member of the Levy Institute’s Macro-Modeling Team and a coauthor of its Strategic Analysis reports. Zezza worked with the late Levy Distinguished Scholar Wynne Godley in the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Italy, as well as at the Levy Institute, specializing in applied heterodox macroeconometric models. His other teaching and research interests include international monetary economics and applied econometrics. His recent publications include:

• “Wynne Godley,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020; coauthored with A. Shipman);
• “On the design of empirical stock-flow-consistent models,” in European Journal of Economics and Economic Policy: Intervention, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2019; coauthored with F. Zezza);
• “Stock-flow-consistent macroeconomic models: A survey,” in Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 31, No. 5 (2017; coauthored with M. Nikiforos);
• “Modeling the Economy as a Whole—Stock-Flow Models,” in F. Lee and B. Cronin, eds., Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics (Edward Elgar, 2016); 
• “Reforming the International Monetary System: A Stock-Flow Consistent Approach,” Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Vol. 38 (2015); and
• “The Impact of Fiscal Austerity in the Euro Zone,” Review of Keynesian Economics, inaugural issue (2012).

Zezza holds a degree in economics from the University of Naples, Italy.