LUIGI PISTAFERRI
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University College London, M.A. Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.
Research Interests: Applied economics, consumption and saving choice, labor supply, econometrics of panel data.
Current Research: Consumption and income dynamics, consumption mobility, subjective expectations.
Representative Recent Publications: (1) "Using Subjective Expectations to Test for Excess Sensitivity of Consumption to Predicted Income Growth," (with Tullio Jappelli), European Economic Review; (3) "Superior Information, Income Shocks and the Permanent Income Hypothesis," Review of Economics and Statistics (2001); (3) “Tax Incentives and the Demand for Life Insurance” (with T. Jopelli), Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming).
Teaching Interests: Labor Economics, Applied Economics, Econometrics.