Michele Boldrin

Michele Boldrin spent most of his youth in and around Venice, eventually graduating magna cum laude with a degree in Economics from the Universita’ Ca’ Foscari. He entered the graduate program in Economics at the University of Rochester in New York where he received an MS in Economics in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1987; his thesis advisor was Lionel W. McKenzie. He has been affiliated with the University of Chicago, UCLA, Northwestern University, the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and the University of Minnesota. Currently he is the J.G. Hoyt Distinguished University Professor and Chair at the Department of Economics, Washington University in Saint Louis. He was an External Faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute and has held visiting positions at Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Academia Sinica, HKUST, Chinese University of HK, University of Chicago, Universita’ Bocconi, IAS at Wuhan University, Beijing University, Kyoto University, and University of Tokyo, among others. His research focuses on the theory and application of Dynamic General Equilibrium models. He has written on economic growth, business cycles, asset pricing, the welfare system, innovation theory and technological progress, search theory, the labor market, intellectual property, fertility, and international trade. He has published three books; the fourth one, written in cooperation with David K. Levine, was published in August 2008 by Cambridge University Press, under the title Against Intellectual Monopoly. He is currently a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Associate Editor of Econometrica, an Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, and the Book Review Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. He is also a Research Fellow of CEPR (London) and FEDEA (Madrid), and an economic advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis and to the Bank of Japan. In the past, he has held advisory positions with various governments, international organizations, central banks and private companies. He spends his time between Saint Louis and Madrid with his wife, Emanuela Corbetta.

His research focuses on the theory and application of Dynamic General Equilibrium models. He has written on economic growth, business cycles, asset pricing, the welfare system, innovation theory and technological progress, search theory, the labor market, intellectual property, fertility, and international trade. He has published three books; the fourth one, written in cooperation with David K. Levine, was published in August 2008 by Cambridge University Press, under the title Against Intellectual Monopoly.