Rodolfo Manuelli

Prof. Rodolfo Manuelli is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research spans economic growth, development economics, and macroeconomics with recent focus on natural disaster impacts on growth, debt maturity strategies, and immigration economics.

His working papers explore monetary-fiscal policy interactions ('Optimal Monetarist Arithmetic', 2025), corporate debt timing strategies ('Market Timing Debt Maturity', 2023), human capital valuation in immigrant earnings, growth trajectories after natural disasters, and retirement decision-making in lifecycle labor models.

Manuelli teaches advanced courses in macroeconomic theory and policy. His work combines theoretical modeling with empirical analysis to address fundamental questions in economic development, financial decision-making, and labor market dynamics.