Luigi Guiso

Professor of Economics

Director of Graduate Studies

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Email: luigi.guiso@eui.eu 
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 934
Fax [+39] 055 4685 902
Secretary: marcia.gastaldo@eui.eu  

Postal address:

Department of Economics
Villa San Paolo
Via della Piazzuola 43
50133 Florence - Italy

Brief Biographical Sketch

Prof. Guiso joined the Institute in January 2007 from Università di Roma Tor Vergata. He has been visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.

He is  a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London and Director of the CEPR Finance Programme. He has worked as a consultant for the Bank of Italy, the European Commission and the European Central Bank.

He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Central Banking and has published in the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and American Economic Review.

Fields of Research

• finance and growth
• households’ savings and financial decisions
• firms’ investment and adjustment policies
• the transmission of monetary policy, culture and economic performance

Languages

• English
• Italian

Selected Publications:

• “Civic Capital as the Missing Link”, with Paola sapienza and Luigi Zingales, forthcoming in the Handbook of Social Economics,  Jess Benhabib, Albero Bisisn and Matthew Jackson (Eds. ), North Holland, 2010.
• “Multiple Creditors and Information Rights: Theory and Evidence from US Firms”, with Raoul Minetti,  Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcoming 2010
• “What Explains Entrepreneurial Clusters”, with Fabiano Schivardi – forthcoming: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009.
• “Culture, Gender and Math”,  with Ferdinando Monte, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales, Science 2008: 320, 5880, 1164 – 1165.
• “Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange?”, with Paola Sapienza e Luigi Zingales: forthcoming: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009: 124, 3.
• “Social Capital as Culture”, with Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales, Luigi Guiso Marshall Lecture at the 2007 EEA  Meeting in Budapest, Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2008: 6, 2-3: 295–320. (among the 25 most popular working papers or journal articles on RePEc)
• “Risk Aversion, Wealth and Background Risk”, with Monica Paiella, Journal of the European Economic Association, December 2008: 6, 6: 1109-1150.  
• “Trusting the Stock Market”, with Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales, Journal of Finance, December 2008: 63, 6, 2557 – 2600.  leading article
• “Spillovers in Industrial Districts”, with Fabiano Schivardi,  Economic Journal, 2007: 117, 68-93.
• “Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?”, with Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2006: 20, 2, 23-48.
• “Insurance within the Firm”, with Luigi Pistaferri and Fabiano Schivardi, Journal of Political Economy, October 2005: 113, 5, 1054–1087.
• “Uncertainty and Dynamic Durable Adjustment”, Giuseppe Bertola and Luigi Pistaferri, The Review of Economic Studies, October 2005: 72, 4, 973–1007. 
• “Awareness and stock market participation”, with Tullio Jappelli, Review of Finance, 2005: 9, 537-567.
• “Does Local Financial Development Matter?” with Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004: 119, 3, 929-969.
• “The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development” with Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales, The American Economic Review, 2004: 94, 3, 526-556.