Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. He also is the co-director of the International Economics and Economic Geography Initiative at the Becker Friedman Institute and an Editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

Rossi-Hansberg’s research specializes in international trade, regional and urban economics, and growth and organizational economics. Among other topics, his work has studied the internal structure of cities; the implications of offshoring and changes in firm organization on economic outcomes; and the impact of spatial frictions and agglomeration and congestion forces on the gains from migration and the cost of climate change. He has published extensively in all major journals in economics.

Rossi-Hansberg has received the August Lösch Prize, the Geoffrey Hewings Award, and the Robert E. Lucas Jr. Prize. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and was previously on the faculties of Princeton University and Stanford University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.