Fabrizio Zilibotti

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Fabrizio Zilibotti
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Born (1964-09-07) September 7, 1964 (age 59)
Bologna, Italy
Nationality Italy
Institution University of Zürich
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)
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 Head of the Chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economy of the University of Zürich's Department of Economics. Zilibotti was previously Professor of Economics at University College London and at the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm. 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. He is the scientific director of the UBS Center of Economics in Society. As of January 1, 2016, Zilibotti will be 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.

Selected publications

His research interests include economic growth and development, the economic development of China, political economy, macroeconomics, financial economics, and economics and culture.

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Awards

In 2009, Zilibotti received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association for “greatly [improving] our understanding of how technological innovation affects economic growth at different stages of economic development. He also contributed to the positive analysis of the welfare state, explaining how economic and political forces interact to shape government redistribution.". Zilibotti shared the prize with John van Reenen of the London School of Economics.
In 2012, Zilibotti received the Sun Yefang Award of the Chinese Academy of Social Science for his paper Growing like China (with Zheng Song and Kjetil Storesletten)[1]

References

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