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Orazio Attanasio is one of the Directors of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy and co-directs the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo@IFS). He also works in the consumption sector. Orazio is a Professor at University College London, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and in 2004 Fellow of the British Academy. He is Member of the Council of the European Economic Association, and of the Council of the Royal Economic Society. After getting a PhD at the London School of Economics, Orazio taught at Stanford University and the University of Bologna. He was also a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and visiting professor at the University of Chicago. He was Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies and he is now one of the editors of the Journal of the European Economic Association. His current research interest focusses mainly on development economics, household consumption and saving behaviour, risk sharing and inequality. 
All available publications
Orazio Attanasio and Weber, G, December 1995,
Is consumption growth consistent with intertemporal optimization? Evidence from the consumer expenditure survey,
Journal of Political Economy,
Vol. 103, No. 6, pp. 1121-1157,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio, James Banks, Costas Meghir and Guglielmo Weber, January 1995,
Humps and bumps in lifetime consumption,
IFS Working Papers
, W95/14
Now published:
Orazio Attanasio, James Banks, Costas Meghir and Guglielmo Weber, January 1999,
Humps and bumps in lifetime consumption,
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics,
Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 22-35, Journal Articles
, American Statistical Association
Orazio Attanasio, January 1995,
Personal saving in the United States,
in International comparisons of household saving University of Chicago,
Book Chapters
Orazio Attanasio and Martin Browning, January 1995,
Consumption over the life-cycle and over the business-cycle,
American Economic Review,
Vol.85, No.5, pp 1118-1137,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio and Weber, G, January 1995,
On the aggregation of Euler equations in overlapping generations models,
Economica,
Vol.62, pp. 565-576,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio and Weber, G, January 1994,
The UK consumption boom of the late 1980s: aggregate implications of microeconomic evidence,
Economic Journal,
Vol. 104, pp. 1269-1302,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio, James Banks, Costas Meghir and Weber, G, June 1993,
Dynamic consumption and saving behaviour in the US and UK,
Conference Papers
Orazio Attanasio, January 1993,
A cohort analysis of saving behaviour by US households,
IFS Working Papers
, W93/04
Orazio Attanasio and Weber, G, January 1993,
Consumption growth, the interest rate and aggregation,
Review of Economic Studies,
Vol. 60, No.3, pp 631-650,
Journal Articles
Orazio Attanasio and Weber, G, January 1992,
Money, credit and consumption: time series evidence for Italy,
in Financial markets liberalisation and the role of banks Cambridge University Press,
Book Chapters
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