Guido Lorenzoni
Visiting Fellow, Autumn Quarter 2011
Pentti Kouri Associate Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guido Lorenzoni’s research focuses on the role of expectations in economic fluctuations and on the interaction between financial markets and aggregate economic activity. In particular, he has worked on models where changing expectations about long-run growth can determine short-run business cycles (in “A Theory of Demand Shocks,” American Economic Review, 2009). He has also worked on the role of regulation in preventing the accumulation of excessive leverage, in order to reduce the economy’s exposure to financial crises (in “Inefficient Credit Booms,” Review of Economic Studies, 2008).
Lorenzoni is the Pentti Kouri associate professor of economics at MIT. He is a member of the Economic Fluctuations and Growth group and of the Monetary Economics group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has held academic positions at Princeton University and has been a consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He received the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009.
Lorenzoni earned his bachelor degree at the University of Rome and his PhD from MIT in 2001.