Luciana Fiorini

Professor of Practice

Ph.D. Brown University

Research interests: microeconomics, economic theory, financial economics

209 Tilton Hall

504-862-8343

lfiorini@tulane.edu

Personal website: greenspace.tulane.edu/lfiorini

Vitae

Short bio

Luciana was born in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She entered the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 1992 and received her B.A. in 1996. In the same year she entered the University of Sao Paulo to pursue the M.A. in Economics, received in 2000. Luciana went to the United States in 2001, when she started her studies at Brown University, finishing her M.A. in 2002 and her Ph.D. in 2007.

Her research interests are Economic Theory, including Microeconomics and Financial Economics. Her current work includes studies about the welfare effects of public policy and of market frictions, such as constraints on trade and access to markets. She is also interested in theory of consumption, including issues as the market of status goods.

Selected publications

Luciana C. Fiorini. 2008. Overlapping Generations and Idiosyncratic Risk: Can Prices Reveal the Best Policy? Journal of Mathematical Economics 44(12): 1312-20.