Affiliated Professors

Af­ter hold­ing the po­si­tion as As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor, en­dowed by Swiss Re at Zurich’s De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ics for five years, Loren­zo Casaburi is now As­so­ci­ate Pro­fes­sor of De­vel­op­ment Eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich. Be­fore he joined the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich, he was a Post­doc­tor­al Fel­low at the Stan­ford In­sti­tute for Eco­nom­ic Pol­i­cy Re­search (SIEPR), Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. He holds a Ph.D. in Eco­nom­ics from Har­vard. Pro­fes­sor Casaburi is an Af­fil­i­at­ed Pro­fes­sor at the Ab­dul Latif Jameel Pover­ty Ac­tion Lab (J - PAL Glob­al), a Re­search Af­fil­i­ate at the Cen­tre for Eco­nom­ic Pol­i­cy Re­search (CEPR), the In­no­va­tions for Pover­ty Ac­tion (IPA) and the In­ter­na­tion­al Growth Cen­tre (IGC), and a mem­ber of the Bu­reau for Re­search and Eco­nom­ic Analy­sis of De­vel­op­ment (BREAD). His re­search fo­cus­es on two main agen­das. In the first, he fo­cus­es on agri­cul­tur­al mar­kets in Sub-Sa­ha­ran Africa, with an em­pha­sis on mar­ket struc­ture and agri­cul­tur­al fi­nance. Re­cent pa­pers in this area study the im­pact of sav­ing con­straints on agri­cul­tur­al mar­kets and the de­sign of nov­el agri­cul­tur­al in­sur­ance prod­ucts for small­hold­ers. In the sec­ond, he looks at state ca­pac­i­ty, with an em­pha­sis on tax en­force­ment. Re­cent work in this area in­cludes a pa­per on the im­pact of tax en­force­ment poli­cies on vot­ing be­hav­ior and on­go­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Kenya Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty on projects aimed at re­duc­ing eva­sion of rental in­come tax and val­ue added tax. Pro­fes­sor Casaburi’s re­search has been fund­ed by sev­er­al in­sti­tu­tions, in­clud­ing US­AID, DFID, IGC, 3ie, and JPAL.

Joachim Voth joined the De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich in 2014 and has been ap­point­ed to the Pro­fes­sor­ship in Macro­eco­nom­ics and Fi­nan­cial Mar­kets, en­dowed by the UBS Cen­ter in 2015. From 1998 to 2013, he was a pro­fes­sor at UPF, Barcelona. He is a Re­search Fel­low at the Cen­ter for Eco­nom­ic Pol­i­cy Re­search (CEPR), has held vis­it­ing ap­point­ments at the MIT Eco­nom­ics De­part­ment, Prince­ton, at NYU-Stern and at the Stan­ford Eco­nom­ics De­part­ment, and he has been a Vis­it­ing Fel­low at the In­sti­tute for Ad­vanced Stud­ies, ANU, Can­ber­ra, Aus­tralia and at Nuffield Col­lege, Ox­ford, as well a Re­search Fel­low at Clare Col­lege, Cam­bridge. Pro­fes­sor Voth is one of the joint man­ag­ing ed­i­tors of the Eco­nom­ic Jour­nal. He is also an as­so­ciate ed­i­tor at the The Quar­ter­ly Jour­nal of Eco­nom­ics. His area of spe­cial­iza­tion is eco­nom­ic and fi­nan­cial his­to­ry and his re­search has been pub­lished in four of the top 5 jour­nals in eco­nom­ics, as well as in books and field jour­nals. His prin­ci­pal ar­eas of re­search in­clude long-run eco­nom­ic growth, the his­to­ry of sov­er­eign debt, caus­es and con­se­quences of the Nazi Par­ty’s rise to pow­er, and the eco­nom­ic his­to­ry of the In­dus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion. Pro­fes­sor Voth has been award­ed sev­er­al grants and prizes for his work and his re­search has also been pro­filed in The Econ­o­mist, the Fi­nan­cial Times, the New York Times, Fi­nan­cial Times Deutsch­land, Wall Street Jour­nal, NZZ, Han­dels­blatt, FAZ, Le Monde, Van­guardia, and De Volk­skrant.