Luigi Pistaferri
Affiliations
Professor, Stanford University
Bajola Parisani Visiting Chair in Economics and Institutions, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Faculty Fellow, CEPR
Research Associate, NBER
Education
University College London, Ph.D., 1999
Bocconi University, Master in Economics, 1995
Istituto Universitario Navale, B.A. Economics, 1993
Research Interests
Labor Economics, Macroeconomics.
Selected Publications
“Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records” (with R. Chetty, J. Friedman, and T. Olsen), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(2), 749-804, 2011
“Earnings, consumption and life cycle choices” (with C. Meghir), Handbook of Labor Economics, O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds), vol. 4B, 774-854, 2011.
“Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle” (with H. Low and C. Meghir), American Economic Review, 100(4), 1432-67, 2010
“Disentangling insurance and information in intertemporal consumption choices” (with K. Kaufmann), American Economic Review 99(2), 387-92, 2009
“Asset pricing implications of Pareto optimality with private information” (with N. Kocherlakota), Journal of Political Economy 117(3), 555-90, 2009
“Consumption inequality and partial insurance” (with R. Blundell and I. Preston), American Economic Review 98(5), 1887ñ1921, 2008
“Uncertainty and consumer durables adjustment” (with G. Bertola and L. Guiso), Review of Economic Studies 72(4), 973-1008, 2005
“Insurance within the firm” (with L. Guiso and F. Schivardi), Journal of Political Economy 113(5), 1054-87, 2005
“Income variance dynamics and heterogeneity” (with C. Meghir), Econometrica 72(1), 1-32, 2004
Honors, Awards and Fellowships
Co-Editor, American Economic Review, 2012-2014.
ERC Starting Grant, 2011-2016.
Associate Editor, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Quantitative Economics.
“Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell” National Fellow of the Hoover Institution, 2003.
Co-Winner of the Prize as 1999 Best Italian Young Economist sponsored by Il Sole-24 Ore, 1999.
Invited speaker, Review of Economic Studies Tour, 1999
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Contacts
Phone: +39-06-4792.4959
Fax: +39-06-4792.4872
E-mail: luigi.pistaferri[at]eief.it
Web: http://www.stanford.edu/~pista/