Francesco Trebbi

Francesco Trebbi is the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Chair and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he co-directs the NBER Political Economy Program, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He currently is a Co-Editor at Econometrica. Before joining UC Berkeley, Trebbi was Canada Research Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia Vancouver School of Economics and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2006.

Francesco Trebbi's academic research focuses on Political Economy and Applied Microeconomics broadly defined. He has worked on political institutions and their design, elections, political behavior, campaign finance, lobbying, regulation, housing markets, and banking. He has also worked on the political economy of development, ethnic politics, and conflict. Francesco has also worked on topics related to the political economy of development, corruption, patronage, ethnic politics, and intra-state conflict. He also has interests in Finance, Development Economics, and Macroeconomics.