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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

William Nordhaus Professor of Economics and Global Affairs
Office Address
87 Trumbull Street, Room B434

Pinelopi (Penny) Koujianou Goldberg is the William Nordhaus Professor of Economics and Global Affairs and an Affiliate of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. She holds a joint appointment at the Yale Department of Economics and the Jackson School of Global Affairs. 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 International Fellow of the British Academy. She is also recipient of the A.SK Award in Social Sciences, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Sloan Research Fellowships, and the Bodossaki Prize in Social Sciences. She is 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 studied 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, labor 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.