Pinelopi Goldberg

Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1992
Diplom in Economics, University of Freiburg, Germany, 1986

Pinelopi (Penny) Koujianou Goldberg is the Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University. She is currently on public service leave from Yale, as she was acting as the Chief Economist of the World Bank Group between November 2018 and March 2020. Goldberg is President elect of the Econometric Society (for 2021) and has previously served as Vice-President of the American Economic Association. From 2011-2017 she was Editor-in-Chief of the American Economic Review. She is member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Sloan Research Fellowships, and recipient of the Bodossaki Prize in Social Sciences. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER), Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and board member of the Bureau of Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).

Goldberg is an applied microeconomist drawn to policy-relevant questions in trade and development.  She has exploited a broad set of methodological approaches – ranging from estimation of structural industry equilibrium models typical of the Industrial Organization literature to reduced form techniques – to provide insights into such diverse topics as the determinants and effects of trade policies, trade and inequality, intellectual property rights protection in developing countries, exchange rate passthrough, pricing to market, and international price discrimination.

Her most recent research examines the resurgence of protectionism in the U.S.; trade, poverty and inequality; the interplay between informality and trade liberalization in the presence of labor market frictions; and legal discrimination against women.