biography

  • Mihaela Pintea is a professor of Economics at Florida International University. She is currently the Department chair. Originally from Romania, she obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Washington, in Seattle, and joined the FIU in 2003. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund and held a teaching position at the University of Maryland.

    Her research interests span macroeconomics, economic growth, and development, as well as demographic economics. She has worked on public policy and the way governments can affect welfare and growth through taxation and the provision of public goods; how R&D, learning, structural change, and international trade affect aggregate labor productivity; and how family structure affects female labor participation and household welfare. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economic Modelling, among others.

research interests

  • Macroeconomics, Economic growth, Household economics

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full name

  • Mihaela Pintea

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