Luigi Pascali is a Kenen Fellow at Princeton University and an Associate Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is also a research affiliate of the Institute of Political Economy and Governance (IPEG), the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). His research covers topics in growth and development, economic history and macroeconomics and has appeared in leading economic journals, including the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy. He is an associate editor at the Economic Journal.