Francesco Trebbi

About

Francesco Trebbi is the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Chair in International Trade and professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California–Berkeley. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he codirects the Political Economy Program, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a coeditor at Econometrica.

Before joining UC Berkeley, Trebbi was Canada Research Chair and professor of economics at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia, and assistant professor of economics at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.

Trebbi’s academic research primarily focuses on political economy and applied microeconomics, broadly defined. He has studied 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 intrastate conflict. Other interests are in finance, development economics, and macroeconomics.

Trebbi’s teaching interests are in political economy, applied econometrics, macroeconomics, and data science. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2006.