Fabrizio Zilibotti

Fabrizio Zilibotti (born September 7, 1964) is an Italian economist. He is the Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University.

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]

Selected publications

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

• Fan, Tianyu; Peters, Michael; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2023). "Growing Like India: the Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth". Econometrica. 91 (4): 1457–1494.
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• Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2022). "When the great equalizer shuts down: Schools, peers, and parents in pandemic times". Journal of Public Economics. 90 (4): 1615–1654.
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• Koenig, Michael; Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2022). "From Imitation to Innovation: Where Is All That Chinese R&D Going?". Econometrica. 206 (4): 1615–1654.
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• Mueller, Andreas; Storesletten, Kjetil; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2019). "Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms". American Economic Review. 109 (12): 4220–59.
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• Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2017). "Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission" (PDF). Econometrica. 85 (5): 1331–1371.
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• Koenig, Michael; Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2017). "Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa". Econometrica. 85 (4): 1093–1132.
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• Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2017). "Growing and Slowing Down Like China". Journal of the European Economic Association. 15 (5): 943–988.
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• Koenig, Michael; Lorenz, Jan; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2016). "Innovation vs. Imitation and the Evolution of Productivity Distribution". Theoretical Economics. 11 (3): 1053–1102.
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• Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2015). "Sharing High Growth across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China" (PDF). American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. 7 (2): 1–39.
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• Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2013). "War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust, and Conflict".
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• Song, Zheng;
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• Song, Zheng;
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• Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2008). "Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism".
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• Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (2005). "The Macroeconomics of Child Labor Regulation".
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• Hassler, John; Rodriguez Mora, Jose V.;
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• Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio (1999). "Unemployment vs. Mismatch of Talents: Reconsidering Unemployment Benefits".
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