Fabrizio Zilibotti (born September 7, 1964) is an Italian economist. He is the Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University.[1] Zilibotti was previously professor of economics at University College London, the University of Zürich, and at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm.
Fabrizio Zilibotti | |
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Born | Bologna, Italy | September 7, 1964
Nationality | Italian |
Academic career | |
Institution | Yale University |
Field | Macroeconomics Political economics Economic Growth The Economy of China |
Alma mater | London School of Economics (Ph.D., 1994; M.Sc., 1991) Yale University (honorary M.A. privatim, 2018) University of Bologna (Laurea cum laude, 1989) |
Doctoral advisor | Charlie Bean |
Awards | Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2009) Ciliegia d'Oro (2009), Sun Yefang Award (2012) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
He has been a co-editor of Econometrica, managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies (2002-2006), and chief editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (2009-2014). In addition, he is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth and of China Economic Review. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, of the NBER and of the CEPR, and a member of the Academia Europaea honoris causa. In 2016, Zilibotti was the president of the European Economic Association.
Zilibotti earned a Laurea in Political Science at the Università di Bologna (1989), and a Master of Science (1991) and a Ph.D. (1994) of economics at the London School of Economics.[2] His doctoral thesis was titled "Endogenous growth and underdevelopment traps: A theoretical and empirical analysis."[3]
His academic career includes professorships at European universities such as Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University College London, and the IIES-Stockholm University. He has also held visiting positions at Bocconi University (“Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Visiting Professorship”), Tsinghua University (“Mr. and Mrs. Tien Oung Liu Distinguished Visiting Professorship”) and the Universities of Oslo, Bologna, Southampton, and CERGE-EI Prague.[2] His most recent appointment was a chair at the University of Zurich.[2]
His research interests include economic growth and development, the economic development of China, political economy, macroeconomics, international economics, and economics and culture.