Anna Lo Prete is Research Fellow at Università di Torino, having been a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (2007-08). Her research interests are in international economics, labor economics, and consumption risk-sharing. Her current work focuses on how structural features of labor and credit markets affect risk-sharing on financial markets, and on assessing the empirical relevance of these interactions in cross-country panel datasets. She earned her PhD in Economics at Università di Torino in 2007.