Matteo Maggiori has been awarded the 2019 Carlo Alberto Medal. Established in 2007 by the Collegio Carlo Alberto, the Carlo Alberto Medal rewards an Italian scholar under the age of 40 for outstanding contributions to Economics.
Matteo’s medal citation (read in full here) focuses on his theoretical and empirical contributions to international macroeconomics and finance, of which the Global Capital Allocation Project is an integral part.
The winner is selected by a committee of distinguished scholars on the base of nominations submitted by economists throughout the world. The Selection Committee for 2019 is composed of Darrel Duffie (Stanford), Esther Duflo (MIT), Lars Hansen (Chicago), Alessandro Lizzeri (NYU), Rosa Matzkin (UCLA), Stephen Morris (MIT) and Fabrizio Zilibotti (Yale).