Olivia Bordeu

Olivia Bordeu is an assistant professor in the Real Estate and Urban Economics group at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on urban, spatial, and public economics, examining how infrastructure, local governments, and market frictions influence the spatial distribution of economic activity. Her work integrates structural models and spatial data to analyze topics such as public investment under political decentralization, coordination across local governments, and local banking market power. Bordeu's research interests include urban and regional economics, international trade, and political economy.

Olivia Bordeu is a researcher at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, focusing on trade, spatial economics, and urban economics. Her work explores how infrastructure, banking, and market dynamics influence economic outcomes in urban and fragmented settings. Bordeu's research includes the role of commuting infrastructure in shaping city development, the impact of bank competition on investment costs across space, and the relationship between bank branches and capital allocation across cities. Her studies also examine how banks affect local development through market segmentation. These topics highlight her contributions to understanding the interplay between economic policies, spatial structures, and urban growth.