Giacomo Rella

I am a postdoctoral researcher at ESG-UQAM and CREEi. I am also associated with The GC Wealth Project at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (CUNY).

Fields: macroeconomics, public economics, labour economics.

Research interests: monetary policy, inequality, household finance, labor markets.

For more details, check my CV (English) or contact me at rella.gia(at)gmail.com.

I am on the 2025-2026 job market.

News:

March 2026: My paper "Monetary Policy and the Wealth Distribution" (with Alessandro Franconi) has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
March 2026: My paper "Wealth Composition, Distribution, and Transmission: The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse" (with The GC Wealth Project Team) has been accepted for publication at Scientific Data (Nature).

Je suis chercheur postdoctoral à l'ESG-UQAM et au CREEi. Je suis également associé au GC Wealth Project du Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (CUNY).

Domaine de recherche : macroéconomie, économie publique, économie du travail.

Thèmes de recherche : politique monétaire, inégalités, finances des ménages, marchés du travail.

Pour plus de détails, consultez mon CV (Français) ou contactez-moi à l'adresse rella.gia(at)gmail.com.

Je suis sur le marché 2025-2026.

Actualités:

Mars 2026: Mon article « Monetary Policy and the Wealth Distribution » (avec Alessandro Franconi) a été accepté pour publication dans la revue Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Mon article « Wealth Composition, Distribution, and Transmission: The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse » (avec l’équipe du GC Wealth Project) a été accepté pour publication dans Scientific Data (Nature).

Monetary policy and the wealth distribution
with/avec Alessandro Franconi
accepted/accepté par, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
latest version/dernière version (Dec 2025)

Wealth Composition, Distribution, and Transmission: The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse
with/avec The GC Wealth Project Team
accepted/accepté par, Scientific Data (Nature)

Time-varying interactions between monetary and housing credit policy
Journal of Macroeconomics, 2025
article | appendix

What are firms borrowing for? The role of financial assets
with/avec Leila Davis, Joao de Souza, YK Kim
Economic Modelling, 2023
article

A balancing act? Local fiscal resilience after mine closures
with/avec Clara Dallaire-Fortier, 2025

The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse v.1.2 – Documentation
with/avec The GC Wealth Project Team, 2024
Stone Center Working Paper

The GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse v.1 – Documentation
with/avec The GC Wealth Project Team, 2023
Stone Center Working Paper

Macroeconomic effects of household debt: a survey of the empirical literature
2021
article

Unequal Tightening: Monetary Policy and Heterogeneous Labor Market Outcomes across the Wage Distribution
with/avec Luca Giangregorio

Labor mobility and cross-country unemployment
with/avec Jonathan Créchet, Raquel Fonseca

Wealth losses from climate policies: aggregate and distributional dynamics
with/avec Max Longmuir, Salvatore Morelli

Wealth, income, and consumption inequality through old age
with/avec Raquel Fonseca, Markus Poschke

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