Marta Morazzoni

Marta Morazzoni serves as a Lecturer in Economics at University College London's Department of Economics, specializing in quantitative macroeconomics with research spanning entrepreneurship, labor markets, and firm dynamics. She concurrently holds research positions at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (Research Fellow since October 2023) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (Research Affiliate since January 2024).

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Dr. Morazzoni's research examines how frictions in agents' mobility across income and wealth distributions affect aggregate outcomes. She investigates how education, family structures, and occupational choices influence business dynamism, resource allocation efficiency, and total production. Her methodological approach combines quantitative macroeconomic modeling with empirical analysis of large-scale datasets, particularly focusing on US economic dynamics.

Her recent publications reveal strong thematic continuity in studying market frictions across multiple domains. The 2023 work on labor-family dynamics extends her 2021 research on student debt and entrepreneurship, while her 2022 Journal of Monetary Economics article on female entrepreneurship connects to broader questions about capital allocation efficiency. These works collectively demonstrate her focus on how micro-level constraints propagate to macroeconomic outcomes.

At UCL, she teaches graduate-level Firm Dynamics and undergraduate Macroeconomic Theory and Policy courses, reflecting her research expertise in business cycles and structural economic analysis. Her professional affiliations with IFS and CEPR position her at the intersection of academic research and policy-relevant economic analysis.