Short Bio & Research Interests

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I hold the Oliver E. and Dolores Williamson Chair in the Economics of Organization and I am an Associate Professor in the Business and Public Policy Group at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.

I am also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the IOG group at the Becker Friedman Institute and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Fellow in the CESifo Research Network and Co-Director of the Clausen Center for International Business & Policy.

My research covers various aspects of International Trade and Political Economy. In particular I have worked on the link between skill distribution and comparative advantage, firms’ lobbying, the role of lobbyists and corporate philanthropy.

I obtained my PhD in 2005 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and my undergraduate degree from the University of Bologna in Italy.