Patricia Funk is Full Professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). Prior to joining USI, she was Associate Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. She is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Fellow at USI's Institute of Economics (IdEP) and affiliated to USI's Center for Federalism (CF). Among her editorial activities, she is Associate Editor at the Economic Journal. 

Her research is on social incentives and behaviour, political institutions, and gender. Her work has been published in various international journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Economic Journal and Management Science. 

Patricia Funk's website

She will present a paper, joint with Nagore Iriberri and Nicole Venus, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:

Women in Editorial Boards: An Investigation of Female Representation in Top Economic Journals (read abstract, PDF 44.2 KB)

The next PEPES Seminar will host Davide CANTONI (LMU Munich) on April 2nd.