Professor Barbara Rossi and Professor Alexander Ludwig took up full-time positions at the EUI Economics Department on 1 September 2024.
Barbara Rossi joins the EUI by taking leave from Pompeu Fabra University, where she has been an ICREA Professor of Economics. Prior to that, she was an Associate Professor with tenure at the Department of Economics at Duke University. Barbara Rossi earned her PhD from Princeton University in 2001. She is a fellow at different organisations: the International Association of Applied Econometrics, the Econometric Society, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In the past, she served as a member of the Euro-Area Business Cycle Dating Committee.
Professor Rossi has specialisations in the fields of time series econometrics, applied international finance, and macroeconomics. Her current research focuses on forecasting, time series econometrics, and macroeconometrics.
Alexander Ludwig joins the EUI by taking leave as a Professor of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt. He holds a PhD from the University of Mannheim 2005. From 2009 to 2014, he was a professor at Cologne University.
In his research, Alexander Ludwig investigates the effects of demographic change on growth and on the inter- and intra-generational distribution of wealth and welfare. He works on questions pertaining to the optimal design of social insurance schemes and education policies. He has published extensively in professional journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the International Economic Review.