Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Pinelopi (Penny) Koujianou Goldberg, the Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University was a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She was chief economist of the World Bank Group between November 2018 and March 2020. Goldberg is president-elect of the Econometric Society (for 2021) and previously served as vice-president of the American Economic Association. During 2011–17 she was editor-in-chief of the American Economic Review. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Sloan Research Fellowships, and recipient of the Bodossaki Prize in Social Sciences.
Goldberg, an applied microeconomist, focuses on policy-relevant questions in trade and development. She has exploited a broad set of methodological approaches to investigate the determinants and effects of trade policies, intellectual property rights protection in developing countries, exchange rate pass-through, pricing to market, and international price discrimination.
Her most recent research examines the resurgence of protectionism in the United States; trade, poverty and inequality; the interplay between informality and trade liberalization in the presence of labor market frictions; and legal discrimination against women.
Goldberg holds a Diplom in economics from the University of Freiburg, Germany and a PhD in economics from Stanford University.