Roberto Rigobon

About

Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Visiting Professor at IESA in Venezuela. Rigobon is a macroeconomist who concentrates on measurement issues related to economic, social, and ethical dimensions. His research includes studying financial contagion and the propagation of shocks through economic networks. He is a founding member of the Billion Prices Project, which produces alternative measures of inflation in many countries, and a cofounder and director of the Aggregate Confusion Project, which aims to improve ESG measurement. Since joining MIT Sloan in 1997, Rigobon has been recognized multiple times for his teaching excellence, receiving the Teacher of the Year award five times and three Excellence in Teaching awards. His academic background includes a PhD in Economics from MIT, an MBA from IESA in Venezuela, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Venezuela.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Economics
• Business
• Computer Science
• Econometrics
• Accounting
• Financial economics
• Geography
• Finance
• Linguistics

Selected publications

• Algorithmic discrimination in the credit domain: what do we know about it?

  AI & Society · 2023-05-17 · 70 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Abstract The widespread usage of machine learning systems and econometric methods in the credit domain has transformed the decision-making process for evaluating loan applications. Automated analysis of credit applications diminishes the subjectivity of the decision-making process. On the other hand, since machine learning is based on past decisions recorded in the financial institutions’ datasets, the process very often consolidates existing bias and prejudice against groups defined by race, se…

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• ESG Confusion and Stock Returns: Tackling the Problem of Noise

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022 · 62 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• From Just-in-Time, to Just-in-Case, to Just-in-Worst-Case: Simple Models of a Global Supply Chain under Uncertain Aggregate Shocks

  IMF Economic Review · 2021-11-15 · 45 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding
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• The pricing strategies of online grocery retailers

  Quantitative Marketing and Economics · 2023-11-28 · 35 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Abstract This paper documents the differences in pricing strategies between online and offline (brick-and-mortar) channels. We collect price data for identical products from leading online grocery retailers in the United States and complement it with offline data for the same products from scanner data. Our findings reveal a consistent pattern: online retailers exhibit higher price dispersion than their offline counterparts. More specifically, online grocers employ price algorithms that amplify…

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• ESG Confusion and Stock Returns: Tackling the Problem of Noise

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01 · 22 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author
  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Alberto Cavallo

  90 shared

• Anna Pavlova

  Centre for Economic Policy Research

  44 shared

• Fernando Borráz

  Universidad de Montevideo

  31 shared

• Leandro Zipitría

  Universidad de la República

  29 shared

• Brian Sack

  27 shared

• Eduardo A. Cavallo

  24 shared

• Brent Neiman

  Center for Economic and Policy Research

  19 shared

• Ugo Panizza

  17 shared

Awards & honors

• Best Paper Award from the Miami University Finance and Real…
• Financial Times Responsible Business Awards recognition (202…
• Pagano and Zechner Prize for the best non-investment paper p…
• 2022 Allocators’ Choice Award for Partnership of the Year fr…
• 2020 GRASFI Best Paper Prize from the Global Research Allian…

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