Role
Full Professor of Political Economy and Director of the RECent Research Center at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. President of the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance.
Bio
Graziella Bertocchi graduated in Economics and Business from the University of Modena and earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. After serving as an assistant professor at Brown University, since 2000 she has been a full professor of Political Economy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where she directs the RECent research center. Since 2019, she has been president of the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance.
Her research focuses on macroeconomics and political economy, with a particular focus on the interaction between economic development and institutions from a historical perspective. Her studies analyze the determinants of political power, wealth inequality, family structure, and gender and demographic issues.
She is a fellow of Academia Europaea, CEPR, and other important international scientific associations, the author of numerous publications in leading economic journals, and active in evaluating the quality of scientific research.