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Fabrizio Zilibotti

Fabrizio Zilibotti

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
60
Citations
35295
World Ranking
796
National Ranking
497

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2011 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2009 - Yrjö Jahnsson Award
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Fabrizio Zilibotti is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and specializes in economics with a focus on economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research covers several subfields including economics and econometrics, education, general economics, econometrics and finance, sociology and political science, and strategy and management.

Their work spans multiple main topics, such as:

  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Global trade and economics
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Parental Involvement in Education

Fabrizio Zilibotti has published extensively in various venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Econometrica
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Annual Review of Economics

Recent notable papers include:

  • "From Imitation to Innovation: Where Is All That Chinese R&D Going?", 2022, Econometrica
  • "Growing Like India-the Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth", 2023, Econometrica
  • "Aggregate fluctuations in adaptive production networks", 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Tertiarization Like China", 2023, Annual Review of Economics
  • "When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times", 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Zilibotti has collaborated frequently with several scholars. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Matthias Doepke
  • Giuseppe Sorrenti
  • Francesco Agostinelli
  • Michael Peters
  • Michael König

In addition to journal articles, Zilibotti has contributed to book publications, including the title : (2020) published by eBooks.

Their work has been recognized with several awards, such as:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2012)
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society (2011)
  • Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2009)
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Best Publications

  • Endogenous growth theory

    P. Aghion;P. Howitt

  • Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth

    Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Growing Like China

    Zheng Song;Kjetil Storesletten;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Was prometheus unbound by chance? Risk diversification and growth

    Daron Acemoglu;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Productivity Differences

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  • The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India

    Philippe Aghion;Robin Burgess;Stephen J. Redding;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Technology, Information, and the Decentralization of the Firm

    Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Claire Lelarge;John Van Reenen

  • Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

    Matthias Doepke;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Unemployment vs. Mismatch of Talents: Reconsidering Unemployment Benefits

    Ramon Marimon;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Parenting with style: Altruism and paternalism in intergenerational preference transmission

    Matthias Doepke;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND TECHNOLOGY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

    Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Rachel Griffith;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Seeds of distrust: conflict in Uganda

    Dominic Rohner;Mathias Thoenig;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • The Survival of the Welfare State

    John Hassler;José Vicente Rodríguez Mora;Kjetil Storesletten;Fabrizio Zilibotti;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Economic reforms and industrial policy in a panel of Chinese cities

    Simon Alder;Lin Shao;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Entry Liberalization and Inequality in Industrial Performance

    Fabrizio Zilibotti;Stephen Redding;Robin Burgess;Philippe Aghion

  • The macroeconomics of child labor regulation

    Matthias Doepke;Matthias Doepke;Fabrizio Zilibotti;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND DISTANCE TO FRONTIER

    Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Rotten parents and disciplined children: A politico-economic theory of public expenditure and debt

    Zheng Song;Kjetil Storesletten;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth

    Daron Acemoglu;Daron Acemoglu;Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Competing Engines of Growth: Innovation and Standardization

    Daron Acemoglu;Gino A. Gancia;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • HORIZONTAL INNOVATION IN THE THEORY OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

    Gino A. Gancia;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Offshoring and directed technical change

    Daron Acemoglu;Gino A. Gancia;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • ENTRY LIBERALIZATION AND INEQUALITY IN INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE

    Philippe Aghion;Robin Burgess;Stephen Redding;Fabrizio Zilibotti

Frequent Co-Authors

Kjetil Storesletten
Kjetil Storesletten University of Minnesota
Matthias Doepke
Matthias Doepke Northwestern University
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Per Krusell
Per Krusell Stockholm University
Robin Burgess
Robin Burgess London School of Economics and Political Science
Rachel Griffith
Rachel Griffith University of Manchester
Stephen J. Redding
Stephen J. Redding Stanford University
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen London School of Economics and Political Science
Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí Barcelona School of Economics

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