Portrait of Luigi Longo

Luigi Longo

Economist · European Commission — Joint Research Centre

I am an applied econometrician specialized in macroeconometrics and time series analysis. I hold a PhD in Economics from IMT Lucca and I currently work for the Joint Research Centre at the European Commission in the Nowcasting Team. I previously worked at the Bank of England and Boston University.

Research Interests

Macroeconomics
Nowcasting & Forecasting
Machine Learning
Time Series
Unstructured Data

Education

PhD in Economics
IMT Lucca · 2023
MSc in Applied Economics
University of Konstanz · 2019
MSc in Economics and Econometrics
University of Nottingham · 2018
BSc in Economics
University of Pisa · 2017

Publications

SVAR Identification with Nowcasted Macroeconomic Data

Corsi F., Longo L., Cordoni F. (2025)

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

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A Social Media Alert System for Meme Stocks

Gianstefani I., Longo L., Riccaboni M. (2024)

Quantitative Finance

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A Neural Network Ensemble Approach for GDP Forecasting

Longo L., Riccaboni M., Rungi A. (2022)

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Working Papers

Reddit's Pulse on US Inflation: Forecasting with Large Language Models

Del Monaco A., Longo L., Marcucci J., Tafani I. (2025)

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Nowcasting the Euro Area with Social Media Data

Boss K., Longo L., Onorante L. (2025)

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Contact

luigi.longo@ec.europa.eu

github.com/l-longo