I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. I am a Research Affiliate at CEPR and an Affiliate at IGIER. During the 2025-2026 academic year, I will be on sabbatical leave visiting Stanford as a SIEPR Visiting Assistant Professor. My research examines long-run macroeconomic trends in growth and inequality.

Marta Prato I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. My research interests include Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Migration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship.

To answer this question, I build a novel two-country innovation-led endogenous growth model, where heterogeneous inventors produce innovations, learn from others, and make dynamic migration and return decisions. Migrants interact with individuals at origin and destination, diffusing knowledge within and across countries.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. My research interests include Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Migration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Bocconi, I was a Cowles Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University. I obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2022.

Preceptor for MA Thesis Writing (Winter, Spring 2019)

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 …

Marta Prato. Bocconi University. Verified email at unibocconi.it - Homepage. Economics. Articles Cited by Co-authors. Title. Sort. Sort by citations Sort by year Sort by title. Cited by. ... G Lorenzoni, M Prato. Journal of the European Economic Association 18 (6), 2755-2775, 2020. 23: 2020: The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge ...

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 …

Received Econ Job Market Best Paper Award by the EEA and Unicredit Foundation “Tapping into Talent: Coupling Education and Innovation Policies for Economic Growth”, with Ufuk Akcigit and Jeremy Pearce. NBER Working Paper #27862. Accepted at The Review of Economic Studies. “The End of the American Dream?

Speaker: Marta Prato (Yale, Chicago; Review of Economic Studies 2022 Tour) on The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth....more.