Luisa Fuster

Bio

Luisa Fuster (PhD.  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) is a Full Professor at the Department of Economics of the UC3M. Previously,  she held positions as Associate Professor with tenure at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1995-2003) and the University of Toronto (2003-2008). The results of her research have been published in various academic journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, among others. Luisa Fuster was the president of the Spanish Economic Association in 2021.

Main Publications

Erosa, A.,  Fuster, L. Kambourov, G and Rogerson, R, "Wages and Earnings Inequality Between and Within Occupations: The Role of Labor Supply’’,  Journal of Monetary Economics, 145, July 2024.

Erosa, A.,  Fuster, L. and Martinez, T. . “Public Financing with Financial Frictions and Underground Economy”, joint with  Journal of Monetary Economics, 135, 20-36, April 2023.

Fuster, L., "Macroeconomic and Distributive Effects of Increasing Taxes in Spain'', SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 13(4), 613-648. December 2022

Erosa, A., Fuster, L., Kambourov, G., and Rogerson, R., ''Hours, Occupations, and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes''. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics  2022

Erosa, A., Fuster, L., and Kambourv, G. “Towards a Micro-Founded Theory of Aggregate Labor Supply". Review of Economic Studies   2016

Erosa, A., Fuster, L., and Restuccia, D. "A Quantitative Theory of the Gender Gap in Wages", European Economic Review   2016

Fuster, L., Imhoroglu A.,and Imrohologlu S. "Elimination of Social Security in a Dynastic Framework" Review of Economic Studies  2007

Recent Research

Erosa, A., Fuster, L., Kambourov, G., and Rogerson, R. “Labor Market Polarization and Inequality: A Roy Model Perspective’’, NBER Working Paper, April 2025. 

Teaching

Dynamic Macroeconomics and Topics in Advanced Macroeconomics