Marta Prato
Assistant Professor
Biography
Marta Prato is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi Università Bocconi. Before joining Università Bocconi, she was a Cowles Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University.
Her research interests include Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Migration, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Inequality. In 2022 she participated in the Review of Economic Studies Tour and in 2021 she was a recipient of the EEA and Unicredit Job Market Best Paper Award. She has published an article on her topics of interest in the Journal of the European Economic Association.
She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2022 and she got her BSc and MSc in Economics from Università Bocconi.
Recent Publications
- 2025
Tapping into Talent: Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth
AKCIGIT, U., J. PEARCE, M. PRATO, "Tapping into Talent: Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth", Review of Economic Studies, 2025, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 696–736 - 2025
The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth
PRATO, M., "The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025, vol. 140, no. 1, pp. 165-238 - 2025
Ricerca e brevetti, un dottorato vale trenta volte il diploma di maturità
PRATO, M., "Ricerca e brevetti, un dottorato vale trenta volte il diploma di maturità", Il Corriere della Sera, 14 April 2025 - 2020
Schumpeter Lecture 2019: Slow Household Deleveraging
GUERRIERI, V., G. LORENZONI, M. PRATO, "Schumpeter Lecture 2019: Slow Household Deleveraging", Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 2755-2775
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