Armando Rungi

I am a professor of economics at IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy, where I teach econometrics, macroeconomics, and international economics to PhD students. I am specifically interested in topics of international economics, industrial organization, applied econometrics, and machine learning applications to economics.

I am the founder and director of the newly established Laboratory on Firms Markets Technologies at the IMT School for Advanced Studies. 

My most recent works focus on the organization of multinational enterprises, global value chains and technology diffusion, firms' cybersecurity, the determinants and consequences of global firms' international market power, and the integration of econometric and machine learning tools for policy evaluation. 

In 2025, I am visiting the Institute for Macroeconomics and International Policies (i-MIP) at the Paris School of Economics.

I have been a consultant on international trade and investment issues for the European Commission, the OECD, and the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

💡 I am the scientific advisor for IMT School of the laboratory activities at the Observatory on Foreign Firms in Italy, an initiative with Confindustria and LUISS, whose objectives are to evaluate the impact of multinational companies' presence and identify the factors that both retain and attract foreign investors in Italy.

🔹 Please apply to the first workshop on Global Firms and Knowledge Diffusion co-sponsored by IMT Lucca and the CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research) - deadline October 20, 2025 - to be held at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca on December 18-19, 2025.

🔹 Have a look at the program of the first workshop on Causal Inference and Machine Learning (CIML) jointly organized by the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca and the CNR-IRCRES in the context of the FOSSR project on July 8-11, 2025.

Please contact me at armando.rungi@imtlucca.it