• A comparison of fiscal rules for resource-rich economies 

      Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2017)
      This paper produces a normative evaluation of fiscal rules for a resource-rich economy. Ad hoc fiscal rules might imply substantial welfare costs; the goal is to analyze the magnitude of these costs by quantitatively ...
    • Essays on the Macroeconomics of Natural Resources 

      Iacono, Roberto (Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2015:50, Doctoral thesis, 2015)
      The relationship between natural resources and the macroeconomy is the topic of this thesis, which is composed of three self-contained essays. The first essay - "On the interplay between intergenerational transfers and ...
    • On the Interplay between Intergenerational Transfers and Natural Resources 

      Iacono, Roberto (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      This paper studies an overlapping generations model with selfish agents, natural resources and human capital externalities. The initial result is to quantify the economic effects of intergenerational transfers by comparing ...
    • The Dutch disease revisited: absorption constraint and learning by doing 

      Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2017)
      This paper revisits the Dutch disease by analyzing the general equilibrium effects of a resource shock on a dependent economy, both in a static and dynamic setting. The novel aspect of this study is to incorporate in one ...