Gianluca Violante is Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He is a Research Associate of the NBER (EFG and ME programs), a Research Fellow of the CEPR (LE, MEF, and MG programs) and IZA, an International Fellow of the IFS, and an external research member of CEBI.
His main research interests are in macroeconomics, labor economics, and public finance. After his Laurea from the Universita' di Torino, Gianluca received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Before joining Princeton, he taught at University College London until 2002 and at NYU from 2002 to 2017. From 2009 to 2013, he was the Coordinating Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics. He is currently one of the Co-Editors of Econometrica.
His AER article 'Monetary Policy According to HANK' (joint with Kaplan and Moll) won the Economics in Central Banking Award in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
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The unequal impact of the 2021-2022 inflation surge on euro area households
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- Inflation
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Global trends in income inequality and income dynamics: New insights from GRID
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- Poverty and Income Inequality
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And yet, it moves: Intergenerational mobility in Italy
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- Europe's nations and regions 
- Labour Markets 
- Poverty and Income Inequality
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Household heterogeneity and the transmission of monetary policy in the euro area
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- EU policies 
- Macroeconomic policy 
- Monetary Policy
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Inequality in times of crisis: Lessons from the past and a first look at the current recession
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- Poverty and Income Inequality