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Davide Furceri
Davide Furceri is an economist at the IMF’s Research Department. He previously worked as an economist at the European Central Bank and at the Organization for Economic C0-operation and Development. He has published extensively in academic journals in the area of macroeconomics, public finance and international macroeconomics.
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