Christian Menegatti is vice president and head of global economic research at Roubini Global Economics. Christian's areas of expertise are global macroeconomics, the U.S. economy, the U.S. housing sector, monetary policy and capital flows and foreign-reserve accumulation and management. Previously, Christian spent three years as a research scholar at New York University’s department of economics. Christian makes regular media appearances on CNBC, Forbes and Fox Business News, and is frequently quoted in the financial press. He has been an invited speaker at a variety of institutions including the Carnegie Council, Chatham House, Merrill Lynch and the Society for Quantitative Analysis. His research has been quoted by several scholars and institutions including the IMF and the European Commission. He holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of Venice, Italy, and a master’s degree in economics and finance from Venice International University.
Recent Blog Posts by Christian Menegatti
- RGE’s Christian Menegatti and Arnab Das Discuss China Slowdown, Oil Prices, and Potential Fed Action
- RGE’s Christian Menegatti and Megan Greene Chat about the EZ – Fewer Headlines, Just as Many Problems
- RGE’s Christian Menegatti CNBC Video – Bailout Won’t Save Greece’s Solvency
- U.S. Home Sales: Are We Just Celebrating California?
- U.S. Employment: Less Than Meets the Eye
- RGE’s Wednesday Note – No Comfort in November for U.S. Employment
- November Disappoints for Jobs
- RGE’s Wednesday Note – A Spanish Inquisition
- Comparing Spain With Ireland and Other PIIGS: Better in Some Ways, More at Risk in Others
- Halloween at the Fed: Shock and Soothe, Shock and Awe, or Shock and Bummer?
- RGE’s Wednesday Note – What’s Ahead for the Fed?
- How Will the FOMC Respond to Weak Employment Data?
- RGE’s Wednesday Note – No Chance of a V-Shaped Recovery
- RGE’s Wednesday Note – FOMC Warms Up the Helicopter
- On the Rising Risk of Deflation: Are We There Yet?
- RGE’s Wednesday Note: How the Other Half Looks
- Oil Spill Will Hurt U.S. Economy, but Not Big Enough to Cause Recession
- Goodbye V-Shaped Recovery: Payrolls Surge and Disappoint
- U.S. Growth: Slowdown Ahead
- RGE’s Wednesday Note – Reading the Tea Leaves for Q2 and Beyond
- U.S. Home Prices: What’s Really Going On?
- RGE’s Wednesday Note – No Greece in the American Machine
- Latin America: A Closer Look at Inflation and Growth Dynamics in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia
- Could Capital Inflows to EM be Slowing?
- 10 Reasons Why We Will See a U-Shape Recovery
- U.S. Retail Sales Grow in October, But Watch the Holiday Season
- The Zombies are Coming… Again
- Another Bleak U.S. Labor Market Report
- U.S. Real GDP Growth: Should We Really Get Excited?
- The Fed’s Balance Sheet and Possible Exit Strategies
- Forecasting Home Prices in the U.S.
- RGE Monitor – U.S. Economic Outlook Update: Stop Asking When the Recession Will End
- Easing Job Losses Don’t Change Weak Prospects for U.S. Recovery
- RGE Monitor – U.S. Economic Outlook: Q2 2009 Update
- What the Stress Tests Didn’t Tell Us
- What the Stress Tests Didn’t Tell Us
- The Public-Private Partnership Investment Program (PPIP) – Will It Work?
- 2009 U.S. Economic Outlook: Q1 2009 Update
- A Wakeup Call for the New Foreign Policy Team?
- Focus on the U.S. Economy
- Looking for the Bottom
- Is the Worst Behind Us?
- U.S. Housing Retention Bill: How Effective in Stabilizing the U.S. Housing Market?
- FannieMae & FreddieMac Seized: Bail-Out of the Mortgage Industry
- Life Without Home Equity (Withdrawal) – Down to $24bn in Q1 2008
- One Year Later, Still Crunch Time
- Currencies and Commodities: Turning of the Tide
- So, Is This a U.S. Recession?
- Global Recession Watch
- Navigating Through Stagflation
- The Rising Specter of Global Stagflation?
- Happy Birthday ECB!
- Oil and Inflation in the Monitor
- Credit Crisis: Is the Worst Behind Us?
- Focus on the Middle East
- Inflation Pressures Emerging Asia
- U.S. Economy in the Monitor
- Natural Gas; Asian Equities; Japanese Exports; U.S. Inequality; Bolivian Referendum
- Behind the Commodity Price Boom
- Oil Supply; Agricultural Commodities; Inflation in Asia; Brazil COPOM Hike; Emerging Europe Inflation
- Oil Supply; Agricultural Commodities; Inflation in Asia; Brazil COPOM Hike; Emerging Europe Inflation
- Earnings Season and Stocks in the Monitor
- ECB, BoT, BoK, BoE, BoJ; China; Mexico; Iceland
- Global Economic Outlook in the Monitor
- Global Economic Outlook in the Monitor
- NATO; US Employment; Peru Investment Grade; Hungary Political Turmoil
- Iceland: Crisis Ahead?; Egypt: Inflation Troubles; Japan: Political Standoff; Argentina: Rural Strike
- Solutions for Mortgage Crisis
- Canada: Recoupling?; Europe: Banking Troubles Ahead?; Asia: Sound but Vulnerable; Middle East: Shelter from Subprime?; Latin America: Resilient?
- Fed in Action; the Bear Stearns Aftermath
- US Retail Sales Drop, Eurozone, BoJ Standoff, Iran Elections
- Meltdown, Anyone?
- ECB in Neutral, Copom on Hold, China’s Agenda, U.S. Employment
- Inflation Threat?
- Housing Sectors Around the World
- Fiscal Trouble or Fiscal Solution?
- Corporate Debt Defaults in U.S., Eurozone Inflation, U.S.-China Relationship, Pakistan Elections, Wind of Change in Cuba
- Oil in the Monitor
- Eurozone Growth, U.S. Retail Sales, IEA Report and OPEC, Inflation in Mexico
- Stubborn Credit Crunch
- ECB, BoE, Emerging Economies’ Inflation Concerns, G7 Meetings, Global Corporate Defaults
- Recent Markets Rebound: Sustainable or Temporary?
- 2008 Global Economic Outlook: So Far, So Bad – What’s Next??
- Risk of a Global Recession Looming
- Davos Talk
- Reality Check for the Global Markets
- Spanning the Globe: United States, Kuwait, United Kingdom, Brazil
- Downside Risks to Global Growth
- Political Risk around the Globe
- Risk of U.S. Recession and Implications for Financial Markets
- Editor Pick – Housing, Housing Finance, and Monetary Policy
- Editor Pick – Money for Nothing and Checks for Free: Recent Developments in U.S. Subprime Mortgage Markets
- Editor Pick – Productivity Growth Differentials, Demographic and Imbalances
- Editor Pick – National, Regional and Metro-Specific Factors of the U.S. Housing Market
- Editor Pick – Businesses and U.S. Current Account Deficit
- Editor Pick – The global economy continues to grow strongly
- Editor Pick: A Model of Cross-Country House Prices
- Editor Pick – U.S. Housing
- Editor Pick – Rouble Revaluation
- Editor Pick – Global Imbalances and Financial Stability
- Editor Pick – On the Sources of the Great Moderation
- The ARMs Alarm
- Editor Pick – Sources and Uses of Equity Extracted from Homes
- Editor Pick – Housing Chartbook: April 2007
- Editor Pick – Still Renting
- Editor Pick – Central Bank Autonomy: Lessons from Global Trends
- Editor Pick – Optimal Inflation for the U.S.
- Editor Pick – Reducing the Risk from Global Imbalances
- Editor Pick – Politically Optimal Fiscal Policy
- Editor Pick – The Stability of Large External Imbalances: The Role of Returns Differentials
- Editor Pick – Commodity Prices, Money and Inflation
- Editor Pick – Inflation and unit labor costs: A phantom menace?
- Editor Pick – Liquidity Shocks and Asset Price Boom/ Bust Cycles
- Editor Pick – On the Welfare Benefits of an International Currency
- Editor Pick – Optimal Mortgage Design
- Editor Pick – TRY Exposure
- Editor Pick – Growing Wealth, Inequality, and Housing in the United States
- Odds of US Recession
- Editor Pick – Brain Drain from Turkey: The Case of Professionals Abroad
- Russia: Signs of Dutch Disease Accompanied by Depletions of Energy Resources?
- Editor Pick – Does Inflation Targeting Make a Difference?
- Editor Pick – CIS: Go long RUB basket
- Editor Pick – The ECB is “Strongly Vigilant”
- Editor Pick – MBA Releases 2007 Economic Research Study on the Housing and Mortgage Markets
- Editor Pick – Robert E. Lucas Podcast
