Gennaro Zezza

Gennaro Zezza (photo by Peter Himsel) is Associate Professor in Economics at Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenza, Università di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale, Italy. He graduated in Economics in Napoli with Augusto Graziani, the Italian founder of the Monetary Theory of Production, and started his career as an economist with a Research position at the Department of Applied economics in Cambridge (UK), let at the time by Wynne Godley. He later obtained a position in the Italian university, and when Godley moved to the United States to join the Levy Economics Institute he also started to collaborate with the Levy Institute, where he is now a Senior Research Scholar. His main area of research is in post-Keynesian stock-flow-consistent modeling. He published theoretical contributions on SFC models in academic journals and books, and contributed to the development of empirical SFC models for the United States, Greece, Italy, and Ecuador. The first three models are in use at the Levy Institute, while the model for Ecuador is in use at the Ministry of Economics in Quito. Among his most recent publication: ‘A prototype regional stock-flow consistent model’ (joint with F.Zezza), Metroeconomica, 2022; ‘On the design of empirical stock-flow-consistent models’, (joint with F.Zezza) European Journal of Economics and Economic Policy: Intervention, 2019; ‘Stock-flow-consistent macroeconomic models: A survey’ (joint with M.Nikiforos), Journal of Economic Surveys, 2017.