Giorgio Primiceri is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He holds a B.A. from Universita' Bocconi and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the International Association of Applied Econometrics, a research associate of the NBER, and a research fellow of the CEPR. He was the recipient of a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, and has served as a member of the CEPR Euro Area business cycle dating committee, and as a co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. His main areas of research are macroeconomics and applied time-series econometrics.