Professor Fabio Milani is a faculty member in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Economics Ph.D. Program. He holds a Laurea in Economics from Bocconi University (2000) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University (2006). His research focuses on Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics, and Time Series Econometrics, with an emphasis on deviations from rational expectations and the impact of learning behavior on macroeconomic fluctuations. Professor Milani’s work explores how psychological factors and heterogeneous expectations drive economic outcomes, including business cycles and inflation dynamics. He has extensively analyzed the role of sentiment, news shocks, and adaptive learning in macroeconomic models. His teaching spans Ph.D. courses like Macroeconomic Theory and Advanced Macroeconomics, as well as undergraduate courses on Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy. He advises numerous Ph.D. students, many of whom hold academic and policy roles globally. His publications span over 30 articles in top journals, including the Economic Journal , Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , and Journal of Monetary Economics . Recent research includes studies on inflation tolerance, heterogeneous expectations, and the implications of learning models for monetary policy design. While no scientific awards are explicitly listed, his contributions reflect significant scholarly impact in macroeconomic theory and policy analysis.











