Mariacristina De Nardi was formerly a senior economist and research advisor in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In September 2018, DeNardi moved to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

De Nardi's research has been published in the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economic Dynamics, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, the Journal of Political Economy and the American Economic Review.

Before joining the Chicago Fed in July 2005, De Nardi was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.

De Nardi received a B.A. from the University of Venice in Italy and a Ph.D in economics from the University of Chicago.