Dina Pomeranz

Dina Deborah Pomeranz (born 21 February 1977) is a Swiss economist who is currently an associate professor of applied economics at the University of Zürich. Pomeranz is considered to be one of the most influential Swiss economists.[1]

Education

Pomeranz was born to a Jewish family in Switzerland,[2] and grew up in Zürich, where she graduated from high school.[3] She received a BA in international relations and an MA in international economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in 2001 and 2003 respectively.[4] She received a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2010. Her dissertation was titled Essays on Tax Evasion and Savings: Evidence from Three Randomized Experiments in Chile.[5][6]

Research and career

Pomeranz was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School before joining the University of Zürich as an assistant professor of applied economics. At the University of Zürich, her research interests include development economics, public finance, and impact evaluations. Her research focuses on public policy in developing countries, particularly with regards to taxation and public procurement.[7] She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT.[8]

Pomeranz is an affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).[4] She is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), and a member of the International Growth Centre (IGC).[4] She was also a faculty research fellow at the NBER from 2012 to 2017.[9] She was elected to a five-year term on the Council of the European Economic Association in 2018.[10]

Pomeranz serves on the boards or advisory boards of Helvetas, Evidence Action, Policy Analytics, TamTam – Together Against Malaria, and IDinsight.[7]

Recognition

Pomeranz's work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of Development Economics. In 2017, the European Research Council awarded her a Starting Grant for research on tax evasion and firm networks.[11] In 2018, she received the Excellence Prize in Applied Development Research by Verein für Socialpolitik. She was ranked as one of the top ten most influential economists in Switzerland by Zurich-based newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.[1]

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ranked Pomeranz the highest in social media influence in its 2019 ranking of economists, with data supported by the economics magazine Makronom.[12] As of August 2020, Pomeranz was ranked 50th on RePEc's list of Top Young Economists.[13]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b "Alumna Making Waves in Economics". Graduate Institute Geneva. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Dina Pomeranz on X". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Von Zürich nach Harvard und zurück" (PDF). University of Zurich, Department of Economics (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  4. ^ a b c "Dina D. Pomeranz CV" (PDF). University of Zurich. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  5. ^ "Dina Pomeranz – CV" (PDF). University of Zurich. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  6. ^ Dina Deborah Pomeranz (2010). Essays on Tax Evasion and Savings: Evidence from Three Randomized Experiments in Chile. Harvard University. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Dina Pomeranz". University of Zurich, Department of Economics. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Dina Pomeranz". Center For Global Development. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Dina Pomeranz". World Bank Live. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  10. ^ "EEA – Fellows of the European Economics Association". European Economic Association. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  11. ^ "List of Principal Investigators – All domains" (PDF). ERC Starting Grants 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  12. ^ Bernau, Patrick (21 September 2019). "F.A.Z.-Ökonomenranking: Wer ist der einflussreichste Ökonom?". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  13. ^ "Young Economist Rankings". IDEAS/RePEc. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
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