The department had a very successful recruiting season this spring. Three new faculty members join the department this academic year: Associate Professor Luisa Lambertini and Assistant Professors Raffaella Giacomini and Marina Pavan. By sheer coincidence, all three are Italian women, bringing the Italian contingent of our faculty to six.
Prof. Lambertini received the Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1995, and has most recently served on the faculty of UCLA. She has held visiting appointments at Princeton and the Institute for International Economic Studies in Stockholm. The lead article in the August 2003 Journal of International Economics, "Symbiosis of Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Monetary Union", is coauthored by Avinash Dixit and Lambertini. Other recent publications in the area of international economics and political economy appear in the AER, the European Economic Review (with Dixit) and the Review of Economic Studies (with Costas Azariadis). Luisa will teach graduate international finance and macro theory.
Prof. Giacomini has just completed the Ph.D. at University of California - San Diego, advised by Clive Granger, Graham Elliott, and Halbert White. She is a time series econometrician studying issues in forecast evaluation. Her paper on "Aggregation of Space-Time Processes", with Granger, will appear in the Journal of Econometrics. Raffaella will teach graduate time series and undergraduate econometrics.
Prof. Pavan recently completed the Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Antonio Merlo, Victor Rios-Rull, and Ken Wolpin. Her dissertation is titled "Consumer Durables and Risky Borrowing: the Effects of Bankruptcy Protection." She is a specialist in the design and application of dynamic equilibrium models, applying these structures in both macro and micro settings. She will be teaching a graduate course in advanced macro theory and undergraduate macro theory.
05 Aug 2003