Pierfrancesco Mei

Research

Current Research

"Thinking about Macro: Deep or Shallow?", with Lingxuan Wu

"Selective Inattention", with Tim de Silva

"Heterogeneous Spending and Saving Behaviors: How Households Act and Reason", with Stefanie Stantcheva and Roberto Colarieti

Pre-PhD Research

"Debt and Austerity: International Evidence and the Case of Brazil" (2020), with Alberto Alesina, Cadernos de Finanças Públicas

"The Italian Public Debt" (2019), with Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero and Francesco Giavazzi, in "Austerità" ed. Rizzoli

"Austerity and Public Debt Dynamics" (2019), with Carlo Favero, CEPR DP 14072

About

Welcome to my webpage!

I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at Harvard University with research interests in macroeconomics, finance and behavioral economics. I am currently a Visiting Dissertation Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. I am also a research fellow in the Social Economics Lab led by Professor Stefanie Stantcheva.

Harvard

During my time at Harvard I worked as a research assistant for Professors Alberto Alesina, Emmanuel Farhi, Kenneth Rogoff, and Andrei Shleifer. In 2021 I have been assistant for the Chief Economic Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister. Since 2021, I have been the teaching fellow for the first-year PhD macroeconomics course at Harvard (Professors Robert Barro, Adrien Bilal, Xavier Gabaix, and Ludwig Straub). In May 2023, I was awarded the Harvard GEA prize for best teaching fellow in the Economics Department. My research is supported by the Alberto Giovannini UniCredit Scholarship, by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship, and by the Molly and Domenic Ferrante Macro Fund.

Bocconi

Before joining Harvard, I obtained Bachelor and Master's degrees in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan under the supervision of Professor Francesco Giavazzi. Between 2016 and 2019, I worked as a research assistant for Professors Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, Francesco Giavazzi, and Stefanie Stantcheva. I was a visiting student at Princeton University and at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute of Economic Research, and an intern at the Financial Times and the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. In 2018/19 I was president of the Economic Society, the first-established economics student society at Bocconi. During my Master, I received the Bocconi Graduate Merit Award, and the Vittorio Bertazzoni Scholarship.

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