Op-eds, short papers, blogs, etc...
Op-eds
The slow-burn impact of Brexit on UK supply chains [Evening Standard City Voices, June 2022]
Mind the import gap: UK supply chains in Brexit times [IAP UNIDO Insights, December 2022]
Business contributions
How are UK supply chains coping in the post-Brexit era? [Dun&Bradstreet papers, February 2022] [Coverage: Global Trade Review] [Exiting the EU seems to have led some UK firms to increase both the use of domestic suppliers (nearshoring) and supply diversification. Expectedly, supply chains adjustments differ along firm size and sectors.]
Blog posts
When bigger isn’t better: UK firms’ equity price performance during the Covid-19 pandemic [with D. Bholat, A. Joseph, R. M. Masolo, T. Munday and D. van Dijcke] [Bank Underground post, November 2020] [Covid-19 has had heterogeneous effects on different groups of people. Surprisingly, UK's small firms’ stock prices have been more resilient on average. But being big with a modern tilt towards intangibles turned out to be beneficial too.]
No Island is an ‘Island’ in the Age of GVCs [with M. Garofalo and E. Longoni] [Bank Underground post, June 2019] [Coverage: Bloomberg] [Like ‘No man is an island’ no island is really an island in the age GVCs. Using a sophisticated yet intuitive decomposition of UK’s trade flows we show how GVCs matter for the UK economy, and in particular how they seem to matter more for what we export than imports.]
UK trade: Going Steady since the 1960s [with E. Longoni and P. Schneider] [Bank Underground post, April 2018] [Using granular data, we show that over 60% of the value of UK nominal goods exports is in very mature trading relationships, by which we mean exports of a particular product between a pair of countries in a given year.]
Update of the EFIGE Database [with D. Favoino] [Bruegel blog post, August 2016] [The EFIGE dataset on firms' competitiveness was updated in 2016 by extending the panel-level balance sheet data until the year 2014. This post highlights the main features of the brand new data.]
Services in European Manufacturing: Servinomics Explained [with O. F. Bustinza and F. Vendrell-Herrero] [Bruegel blog post, March 2016]. [WEF blog post, March 2016] [Making the manufacturing sector more competitive is vital to restore economic growth in Europe. Changing business models to sell services as well as products can provide useful revenue to manufacturers.]
The ‘Dos and Don’ts’ of a Growth-Friendly Policy Mix for the Euro Area [with C. Altomonte] [Bruegel blog post, October 2014] [The post discusses ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’ on the fiscal/structural side for a growth-friendly policy mix for the euro area in the wake of the post-crisis recovery.]
Internationalization and innovation of firms: give them one roof [with C. Altomonte, G.I.P. Ottaviano and G. Békés] [VoxEU, March 2014] [Policymakers should coordinate, if not integrate, innovation and internationalisation policies in order to boost productivity and growth. .]
Triggering competitiveness a 'decalogue' from new firm-level evidence [with C. Altomonte and G.I.P Ottaviano] [VoxEU, August 2012] [Competitiveness is one of the most debated issues in policy circles. But, what triggers it? This column identifies the triggers of competitiveness capitalising on firm data from seven European countries.]
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