Keynote speaker

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 is currently a Co-Editor at Econometrica.

Before joining UC Berkeley, he 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 my PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2006.

His academic research primarily focuses on Political Economy and Applied Microeconomics broadly defined. He has worked on political institutions and their design, elections and political campaigns, behavior in legislatures, campaign finance, lobbying, regulation, housing markets, and banking. He has also worked on topics related to the political economy of development, corruption, patronage, ethnic politics, and intra-state conflict.