Fabrizio Zilibotti | |
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Born |
Bologna, Italy |
September 7, 1964
Nationality | Italy |
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) University of Bologna (B.Sc., 1989) |
Doctoral advisor |
Charlie Bean |
Awards |
Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2009) Ciliegia d'Oro (2009), Sun Yefang Award (2012) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Fabrizio Zilibotti (born September 7, 1964) is an Italian economist. He is the Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University. Zilibotti was previously Professor of Economics at University College London, the University of Zürich, and at the Institute for International Economic Studies in . He is a co-editor of Econometrica, a former managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies (2002-2006), and the former 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 and of the CEPR, and a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2016, Zilibotti was the President of the European Economic Association. He has published articles in several international journals, among them, the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.
His research interests include economic growth and development, the economic development of China, political economy, macroeconomics, financial economics, and economics and culture.