Tiziana Assenza

Associate Professor of Economics​ (Toulouse School of Economics and IAST)

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Fields of interest: Behavioral & Experimental Macroeconomics, Computational Macroeconomics. My work currently centers on two topics: (i) monetary policy communication, and (ii) dis- and misinformation.

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My research bridges the gap between theoretical models and observed economic behavior, combining computational techniques and experimental methods. The goal is to better understand how people make economic decisions and to build models that can inform effective policy making.

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A central strand of my work studies how expectations are formed in macroeconomics. I explore how individuals form and update their economic expectations, and how these expectations shape both individual choices and broader economic outcomes. To do so, I combine laboratory and online experiments with survey and aggregate macroeconomic data, as well as original datasets constructed using natural language processing on textual sources.

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A related line of research asks whether central bank communication can itself serve as an effective instrument of monetary policy when expectations are central to economic outcomes. A key part of this is understanding how individuals interpret and respond to monetary policy messages.

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More recently, I have been bringing economic analysis to the study of dis- and misinformation, investigating how it distorts household and firm decisions, shapes business cycles, and complicates policy implementation.

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News

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New CEPR Discussion Paper DP21691: "Louder than Rates: The Systematic Nature of Central Bank Communication" (with F. Collard, D. Guney & P. Wangner)

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Podcast Crossing Channels "Who can we trust online?" available here

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Since May 2025 I have been appointed Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

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Phone: +33 (0)5 6112 8822 

Email: tiziana.assenza@tse-fr.eu ​

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My google Scholar page​​​​