Working Papers

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Can we really trust offshoring indices? (with Davide Castellani and Daniel Horgos) (2012)

This paper argues that indices of offshoring built on input-output tables are actually measuring something...

 

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Schools of Thought and Economists' Opinions on Economic Policy (with Michele Di Maio) (2012)

In this paper we bring to data the hypothesis that economists’ opinions are related to...

 

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On the Pro-trade Effects of Immigrants (with Massimiliano Bratti and Gianluca Santoni) (2011)

Using highly detailed data on trade flows from 107 Italian provinces (NUTS-3) between 2003 and...

 

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Africa in the World Trade Network (2010)

This paper contributes to the analysis of the effect of the global financial crisis (Claessens...

 

Dummies for Gravity and Gravity for Policies: Mission Impossible? (with Claudio Vicarelli), Under revision (2010)

The use of the gravity model to evaluate the effect of policies in a cross-country...

 

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Patterns in Trade Partners (with Lucia Tajoli), Under revision (2010)
 

Articles

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The World Trade Network (with Lucia Tajoli), The World Economy (2011)

This paper uses the tools of network analysis and graph theory to graphically and analytically...

 

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Economists' View About the Economy. Evidence from a Survey of Italian Economists (with Michele Di Maio), Rivista Italiana degli Economisti (2011)

This paper is about economists, their views and their level of consensus on economic policy....

 

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Comparing Sectoral International Trade Networks (with Lucia Tajoli), Aussenwirtschaft (2010)

How is the structure of trade flows for a given good organized? Is it a...

 

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Overall trade specialization and economic development: countries diversify (with Marco Gallegati and Tamberi Massimo), Review of World Economics (2009)

This paper provides evidence for an aspect of trade often disregarded in international trade research:...

 

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Regional unemployment and productivity in Europe (with Roberto Basile), Papers in Regional Science (2008)

We analyse the relationship between regional unemployment and labour productivity in Europe, basing our empirical...

 

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Semiparametric analysis of the specialization-income relationship, Applied Economics Letters (2008)

In this article we investigate the empirical relationship between overall specialization and per capita income....

 

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Similarity in trade structures, integration and catching-up (with Lucia Tajoli), Economics of Transition (2008)

In this paper, we look at the role of export composition in the growth process,...

 

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Economic integration and similarity in trade structures (with Lucia Tajoli), Empirica (2007)

In this paper, we look at the similarity of the trade structures toward the EU...

 

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Openness, similarity in export composition, and income dynamics (with Lucia Tajoli), Journal of International Trade & Economic Development (2007)

A relevant share of the theoretical and empirical analysis on economic growth has been devoted...

 

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Hub-and-Spoke or else? Free trade agreements in the 'enlarged' European Union (with Roberta De Santis and Claudio Vicarelli), European Journal of Comparative Economics (2005)

The object of this paper is to estimate if and how the Central European Free...

 

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Three Decades of Italian Comparative Advantages, The World Economy (2005)

The paper explores the structure of Italian Revealed Comparative Advantages (RCA), focusing on the export...

 

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Trade Potentials in Gravity Panel Data Models (with Claudio Vicarelli), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2005)

The paper shows how - using as an example the trade flows between eleven European...

 

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Overall Specialization Empirics: Techniques and Applications (with Massimo Tamberi), Open Economies Review (2004)

It is customary in the empirical trade literature to analyze specialization patterns of countries using...

 

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Dynamic Scale Economies, Specialization, and the Cost of the Single Currency (with Piercarlo Padoan), International Journal of Development Planning Literature (1999)

The paper explores the effect of exchange rate policy, labour market intervention and technological change...

 

Books

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The Trade Impact of European Union Preferential Policies: An Analysis Though Gravity Models (with Luca Salvatic) (2011)
 

Contributions to Books

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The Gravity Model in International Trade (with Daria Taglioni), THE TRADE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN UNION PREFERENTIAL POLICIES: AN ANALYSIS THROUGH GRAVITY MODELS (2011)

This is a beautiful survey of the Gravity model in international trade. It is more...

 

Presentations

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Slides - Africa in the World Trade Network, ETSG 2010 (2010)

Here you find the slides of the presentation of the paper Africa in the World...

 

Best figures I made with R (hopefully with R-scripts)

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Bivariate projection (2012)

This is figure 1 of a paper with Michele Di Maio, Schools of Thought and...

 

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Using Multiple Forest Plots to Present Multiple Regressions Results (2012)

This is figure 2 of a paper with Michele Di Maio, Schools of Thought and...

 

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Using Forest Plots to Present Meta-Analysis Results (2011)

This is figure 1 of the paper with Massimiliano Bratti and Gianluca Santoni, On the...

 

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African choropleth maps (2011)

The figure represents three choropleths of Africa (2007.1-2008.3; 2008.4-2009.1; 2009.2-2009.3) describing with different colors the...

 

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Multiple Kernel Densities (2010)

This is a simple multiple kernel density plot, from a paper with Lucia Tajoli, Patterns...

 

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Graph in Pajek (2009)

This is a Graph from a presentation in Warsaw of the paper The World Trade...

 

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Similarity and Convergence (S-C) plot (2006)

This is figure 5 from the paper Economic integration and similarity in trade structures with...

 

Web resources of research projects I'm involved in

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tradenetworks.it, Webpage (2011)
 

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Economists' View About the Economy. The Italian Economists Survey (with Michele Di Maio), Webpage (2007)