Pietro F. Peretto, Associate Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	205 Social Sciences
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 1807
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• ECON 602.01, MACROECONOMIC THEORY Synopsis

  Social Sciences 111, MW 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• ECON 902.02, MACRO/INTERNATIONAL ECON WKSHP Synopsis

  Social Sciences 107, F 10:20 AM-12:30 PM

• Ph.D. Yale University 1994
• Laurea in Discipline Economiche e Sociali Bocconi University, Milan, Italy 1988

Specialties:

Industrial Organization
Macroeconomics

Research Interests: Industrial Organization and Technical Change

Pietro Peretto joined Duke in 1994 after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. A native of Milan, Italy, Peretto received his B.A. from the Universita Bocconi, also in Milan. His research integrates into endogenous growth theory the insights on technological progress and market structure developed in industrial organization. He has written several theoretical and applied papers in the area. Professor Peretto teaches graduate Macroeconomic Theory, and undergraduate Intermediate Macroeconomics and Industrial Organization.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Chu, AC; Liao, CH; Peretto, PF, Dynamic effects of labor income taxation in an unequal Schumpeterian economy, European Economic Review, vol. 178 (September, 2025) [doi]  [abs].
2. Ferraro, D; Peretto, PF, Market size, innovation, and the economic effects of an epidemic, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 236 (August, 2025) [doi]  [abs].
3. Huang, CY; Lai, CC; Peretto, PF, Public R&D, private R&D and growth: A Schumpeterian approach, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 236 (August, 2025) [doi]  [abs].
4. Peretto, PF; Valente, S, Growth with Deadly Spillovers, International Economic Review, vol. 66 no. 3 (August, 2025), pp. 1129-1152 [doi]  [abs].
5. Iacopetta, M; Peretto, PF, Business taxes, management delegation, and growth, European Economic Review, vol. 170 (November, 2024) [doi]  [abs].