Gianluca Violante is Theodore A. Wells '29  Professor of Economics at Princeton University.

He is a Research Associate of the NBER, CEPR, IFS and IZA and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.  After his Laurea from the Universita' di Torino, Gianluca received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Princeton, he taught at University College London and NYU. He has been the Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, and one of the Co-Editors of Econometrica. He's currently one of the organizers of the NBER Macro Annual. His main research interests are in macroeconomics, labor economics, and public finance. He has published his research in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies. He has also published in several top-field journals. One of his publications has won the 2019 Economics in Central Banking Award. 

Short Bio

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics,  University of Pennsylvania (1997)
• Laurea, Universita' di Torino (1992)

Past Academic Positions

• New York University (2002-2017)
• University College London (1997-2002)

Research Network Associations and Fellowships

• Fellow of the Econometric Society
• Research Associate of the NBER (EFG and ME programs)
• Research Fellow of the CEPR (LE, MEF, and MG programs) and IZA
• International Fellow of the IFS
• Advisory Board Member, Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conferences Series in Public Policy
• Scientific Council Member, Financial Transactions “Big Data” Global Research Network
• External research member of CEBI

Research Groups

• Co-leader of the NBER EFG group Micro Data, Macro Models (2016 - present)
• Co-director of the GRID project

Editorial Positions

• Organizer of the NBER Macro Annual (2025 - present)
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (2019-2023)
• Co-Editor of Econometrica (2015-2019)
• Coordinating Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics (2009-2013)

Selected Lectures 

• Steine Lecture (Vanderbilt University, 2024)
• CEPR European Summer Symposium in International Macroeconomics (Tarragona, 2017 and 2023)
• Nobel Symposium on Inequality (Stockholm, 2022)
• Chair Banque de France Lecture (Paris, 2022)
• Laffont Lecture - European Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society (Copenhagen, 2021)
• Pareto Lecture (Turin, 2021)
• European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society (Rotterdam, 2019)
• LACEA (Guayaquil, 2018)
• Asian Meetings of the Econometric Society (Hong Kong, 2017)
• North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society (Philadelphia, 2016)
• Berglas Lecture (Tel Aviv, 2016)
• Midwest Macro Meeting (Rochester, 2015)
• Annual Meeting of the SED, (Seoul, 2013)
• Annual Meeting of the Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria (Salvador de Bahia, 2011)
• World Congress of the Econometric Society (Shanghai, 2010)

Awards

• 2019 Economics in Central Banking Award for the AER article 'Monetary Policy According to HANK' (with Greg Kaplan and Benjamin Moll)
• Princeton University Graduate Economics Club Best Instructor Award 2018