Stefania Albanesi

Stefania Albanesi is the Philip K. Robins Endowed Chair in Economics and director of the Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Miami Business School. She holds a degree in Political Economy from Bocconi University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She has taught at Bocconi, Duke, Columbia, and Pittsburgh Universities, and was a Senior Economist and Research Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has been a visiting professor at prestigious international universities.

Her research interests include macroeconomics, particularly inequality, the causes and redistributive consequences of public policies; inflation; optimal taxation of capital and labor income; the evolution of gender inequality in the labor market; the distribution of household debt and insolvencies before and during the 2007-2009 financial crisis; and the causes and consequences of personal bankruptcy. More recently, she has studied the link between female labor market participation and the economic cycle; the relationship between credit scores and equity in access to consumer credit; and the impact of artificial intelligence on employment.

She is the author of numerous scientific publications. She is an NBER Research Associate, a CEPR Research Fellow, a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Center for Economic Analysis. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and the Review of Economic Dynamics. In March 2022, she testified before the U.S. House Budget Committee on post-pandemic women's employment.