Short Bio

Francesco Bianchi's short bio

Francesco Bianchi is the Louis J. Maccini Professor of Economics and Department Chair at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Bianchi is a co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics and Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is a member of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Bianchi received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2009 under the guidance of Nobel Prize Laureate Chris Sims.  Before joining Johns Hopkins, he was a professor at Duke University. He has held academic positions at UCLA, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Northwestern University. In 2015 he was awarded the Wim Duisenberg Research fellowship and in 2010 he received the Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics. Professor Bianchi has published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other leading academic journals. He has served as associate editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics, Quantitative Economics, the European Economic Review, and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. He has been invited to discuss his research at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, the G20 FWG meeting, and at numerous policy and academic institutions. Currently, Professor Bianchi’s main research interests involve the use of machine learning techniques to improve forecasts and detect biases in beliefs, the role of agents’ beliefs in explaining macroeconomic dynamics and asset prices, the interaction between monetary and fiscal policy, and the effects of political agendas and monetary policy on asset prices.