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Upcoming presentations
3rd Global INTAN-Invest Conference: Better Data for Better Policy, Rome, Luiss, 7-8 May 2026
24th ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, Mannheim, ZEW, 25-26 June 2026
Recent working papers:
"Firm hierarchy and emerging technologies", 2026, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano Working Paper 512
"Trade liberalization, skill demand, and workforce composition: evidence from Vietnamese SMEs", 2026, DEM Working Paper 2026/02
Published papers
"Firm hierarchy and the market for knowledge", 2025, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
"Spending and sharing: the relationship between municipal procurement and the labour share", 2026, Applied Economics Letters
"Municipal procurement, productivity and dynastic management: evidence from Italian firms", 2025, Applied Economics
"Extended producer responsibility and trade flows in waste: The case of batteries", 2025, Environmental and Resource Economics [VoxEu]
ABOUT ME
Present and past positions
Currently (January 2019 - present), I am an Associate Professor/Professore Associato at the University of Trento (Italy) - Department of Economics and Management, where I am also Department Delegate for Orientation.
Before joining UNITN in 2016 as an Assistant Professor/Ricercatore TD, I was a Lecturer/Profesor Ayudante Doctor (September 2011-December 2015) at the University of Valencia (Spain) - Department of Applied Economics, and a Research Fellow (December 2008-August 2011) at the University of Perugia (Italy) - Department of Economics.
Fields of research
My main fields of research are Industrial Economics and Productivity. For the last 16 years, I have been doing research on the determinants of firm growth and survival and on both determinants and consequences of vertical integration. My research work develops also around the causes of productivity growth both at the micro- (firm) and meso- (region/industry) level. More recently, I am conducting research on the determinants and consequences of how firms organize their workforce.
ABOUT MY WORK
Editorial and referee activity
Member of the Editorial Review Board of Small Business Economics (Springer)
Associate Editor of Journal of Industrial and Business Economics (Springer) - formerly EPI
Associate Editor of Applied Economic Analysis (Emerald) - formerly Revista de Economía Aplicada
Research group at UNITN
Empirical Microeconomics Laboratory (EMiL)
CONTACTS
Address (office): Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento; Via Inama 5, 38122 Trento, Italy
e-mail: fabio.pieri(at)unitn.it; skype: fabiopieri
phone (office): +39 0461282393
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