CV

General Information

Full Name Patrick Molligo
Date of Birth 17th April, 1993
Languages English, German

Education

  • 2026
    Ph.D. in Economics
    UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    • Applied Microeconomics, Economic History
    • Dissertation - "Did the G.I. Bill increase vocational education after WWII?"
    • Committee
      • Dora Costa (chair), Martha Bailey, Maurizio Mazzocco, Daniel Haanwinckel
  • 2022
    M.A. in Economics
    UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2017
    M.Sc. in Economics
    Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • 2015
    B.A. in Economics, German Studies (summa cum laude)
    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Experience

  • 2021-present
    Teaching Assistant
    UCLA - Los Angeles, CA
    • Awarded departmental recognition for excellence in teaching based on top-rated student evaluations.
    • Designed and led a mathematics refresher course for transfer students; success secured alumni funding for future years.
    • Taught statistics, econometrics, data science, and microeconomics to diverse undergraduate classes.
  • 2025
    Summer Associate Intern
    Analysis Group - Los Angeles, CA
    • Leveraged opposing expert's regression model to reduce client damage estimates by several million dollars.
    • Contributed econometric critiques to expert rebuttal reports in two class action lawsuits under strict deadlines.
    • Researched and prepared client-facing presentation material to support business development in new litigation areas.
    • Casework areas - antitrust, intellectual property and patent infringement, ERISA.
  • 2022-2024
    Research Assistant
    Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA - Los Angeles, CA
    • Conducted data analysis for an NIH-funded study assessing the health impacts of pollution on U.S. soldier populations.
    • Constructed novel pollution exposure measures linkable to restricted medical records.
    • Identified causal effects of pollution on health outcomes using quasi-random variation in exposure.
  • 2018-2020
    Senior Research Assistant
    Federal Reserve Board - Washington, D.C.
    • Developed a text analysis tool with Python to construct policy uncertainty indices from earnings calls and newspapers.
    • Produced empirical analysis and exhibits for FOMC briefings, directly informing monetary policy deliberations.
    • Co-author, "The Economic Effects of Trade Policy Uncertainty", Journal of Monetary Economics (2020). Research cited by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, and others.
  • 2017-2028
    Business Development Analyst
    Jaemacom, GmbH - Berlin, Germany
    • Researched competition and market demand to support international expansion outside Germany.
    • Automated technical support workflows using Excel VBA, saving ~5 hours per week.
    • Translated software interfaces and user manuals between German and English.

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • Excellence in Teaching (UCLA Economics Department)