Bank of Lithuania
Department TMTS, Applied Macroeconomics Research Division, Economics Department Eglė Jakučionytė, PhD
Address Totorių g. 4, 01121 Vilnius, Lithuania
Email tl.bl@annerBF
Personal website www.federicabrenna.com/

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Research interests

Empirical Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, Forecasting


Recent publications

Combining Bayesian VAR and survey density forecasts: does it pay off?, with M. Banbura, J. Paredes and F. Ravazzolo. ECB Working Paper Series No 2543

Recent Working/Discussion/Occasional Papers:

Bielskis, K., Brenna, F., Garcia-Louzao, J., Girstmair, S., & Mulay, A. (2025). An Ex-Ante Assessment of the Proposal to Reform the Second Pillar of the Lithuanian Pension System. Occasional Paper No 57/2025

Brenna, F. & Budrys, Ž. (2025). Forecasting with the help of survey information. Working Paper No 130/2025

Federica Brenna & Žymantas Budrys, 2024. "The term structure of judgement: interpreting survey disagreement", Working paper No 123/2024


Short biography

2023 – present Bank of Lithuania, Senior Economist at TMTS
2017 – 2023 KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), PhD in Economics
2019 – 2020 ECB (Frankfurt, Germany), Trainee in Forecasting and Policy Modelling
2015 – 2017 ULB (Brussels, Belgium), MRes in Quantitative Economics         
2014 – 2015 ECB (Frankfurt, Germany), Trainee in Monetary Analysis
2014  EIB (Luxembourg), Trainee in Country and Financial Sector Analysis
2011 – 2014 UniCatt (Milan, Italy), MSc in Economics
2008 – 2011 UniCatt (Milan, Italy), BSc in Economics and International Markets

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Last update: 23-09-2025