Stefania Albanesi

Stefania Albanesi is Professor of Economics at the Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami, a Research Associate at the NBER  and a CEPR Research Fellow. Prior to her appointment to the University of Miami, she was a professor at Bocconi University, Duke University, Columbia University, University of Pittsburgh and a Research Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  

She is a macroeconomist whose research interests include the determinants and implications of various dimensions of inequality and the distributional implications of government policies. She has studied the political economy of inflation, the optimal taxation of capital and labor income, and the evolution of gender disparities in labor market outcomes. Her recent work has studied the distribution of debt and defaults in the lead up and during the 2007-09 financial crisis and the determinants and consequences of personal bankruptcy. Her current research focusses on the relation between changing trends in female participation and aggregate business cycles and on the relation between credit scores and equitable access to consumer credit markets.