Biography
Isabella Blengin, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Economics at EHL, she teaches the courses of microeconomics and hospitality economics in the bachelor and in the online MBA program. After taking her PhDs at the University of Milano and at Boston College, she did a post-doc at the University of Lausanne. She has been visiting fellow in the economics department at MIT and summer intern at the Boston Fed.
Isabella’s most recent research project relates to exchange rate and hospitality, and examines how exchange rate appreciations affect the different sub-sectors of the Swiss hospitality industry. The goal is to give concrete instructions to hospitality industry practitioners to allow them to better protect themselves from exchange rate fluctuations. Other projects include theoretical analyses on optimal monetary policy with endogenous information, foreign currency denominated debt and optimal portfolio allocation under uncertainty.
Awards
H. Michael Mann Summer Fellowship Award, Summer 2008 Boston College Graduate Scholarship (September 2006 - May 2011)
Prize "Fausto Vicarelli" for best Undergraduate Thesis in Italy (2004)
Education
PhD in Economics, Boston College (USA)