Professor Pinelopi (Penny) Koujianou Goldberg FBA

Summary

Pinelopi (Penny) Koujianou Goldberg is the William Nordhaus Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale University. From 2018 to 2020, she was the Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. Goldberg has served as President of the Econometric Society and Editor-in-Chief of the American Economic Review. She is member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipient of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Bodossaki Prize in Social Sciences. She is also Distinguished CES (Munich) Fellow for 2024, Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER), research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in London, UK, fellow of the CESifo research network in Germany, and member of the board of directors of the Bureau of Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).

Her research examines policy-relevant questions in trade and development. She has used a broad set of methodological approaches – ranging from estimation of structural industry equilibrium models to reduced form techniques – to gain insights into the determinants and effects of trade policies, trade, poverty and inequality, intellectual property rights protection in developing countries, exchange rate passthrough, pricing to market, and international price discrimination. Her recent work studies the resurgence of protectionism and rise of economic nationalism; trade and development; the effects of trade liberalization in the presence of domestic distortions, such as market power, labour market frictions and imperfect enforcement of regulations; industrial policy; and discrimination against women in developing countries.

She holds a Diploma in Economics from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University, U.S.A.