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
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, the
University of Zürich
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Stockholm
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.
He has been a co-editor of ''
Econometrica
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'', managing editor of the ''
Review of Economic Studies
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'' (2002-2006), and chief editor of the ''
Journal of the European Economic Association
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'' (2009-2014). In addition, he is an associate editor of the ''
Journal of Economic Growth
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Econometric Society
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, of the NBER and of the CEPR, and a member of the
Academia Europaea
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honoris causa. In 2016, Zilibotti was the president of the
European Economic Association
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.
Early life and education
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. His doctoral thesis was titled "Endogenous growth and underdevelopment traps: A theoretical and empirical analysis."
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. His most recent appointment was a chair at the University of Zurich.
Selected publications
His research interests include economic growth and development, the economic development of China, political economy, macroeconomics, international economics, and economics and culture.
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