 | Giovanni Maggi |
Giovanni Maggi, newly appointed as the inaugural Howard H. Leach Professor
of Economics and International Affairs, focuses his research and teaching on
international trade and the global political economy.
T H I S
IN MEMORIAM
Maggi named inaugural
Howard H. Leach Professor
The Howard H. Leach Professorship is named for a member of the Yale Class of
1952 who is a former U.S. ambassador to France. The professorship is affiliated
with the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
at Yale and is awarded to a scholar working in the area of transatlantic relations
or on European economics, politics or international relations.
Maggi, who joined the Yale faculty in 2007 after teaching for five years at
Princeton University, is also interested in the areas of contracts and institutions
and industrial organization. In addition to being affiliated with the MacMillan
Center, he is also a member of the University’s Cowles Foundation and
Economic Growth Center. He is co-director of the Leitner Program in International
and Comparative Political Economy.
In his published articles, Maggi has explored such topics as free trade versus
strategic trade, the role of multilateral institutions in international trade
cooperation, the technology gap and international trade, and the value of trade
agreements in the presence of political pressures, among other topics. His
research has been published in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, The Rand
Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory, The American Economic
Review, the Journal of Political Economy and other scholarly and professional
publications.
Maggi earned his undergraduate degree from Universita’Bocconi in Milan,
Italy, and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He has been a visiting
professor at New York University, Pontificia Universidade Católica do
Rio de Janeiro, New York University’s Stern School of Business and Ente “Luigi
Einaudi” in Rome. He has been a visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the European University
Institute, and the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research in Milan.
An associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, Maggi
serves on the editorial board of the B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and
Policy. He was formerly an associate editor of the American Economic Review.
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