Here you can find all my publications, those that have already made it into peer reviewed journals and those I am still working on.
Should you like to collaborate on these topics please do get in touch!
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Bontadini F., Meliciani V., Savona M., Wirkierman A., (2025) Nearshoring and Farsharing in Europe within the Global Economy: Regional Trends, Structural components and Sectoral Patterns. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics.
Bontadini F., Corrado, C., Haskel J., Iommi M., Jona-Lasinio C., Miyagawa T. (2024) Intangible Capital, TFP Growth and Green Shoots in New Productivity Data, International Productivity Monitor, Number 46, Spring 2024
Bontadini F., Evangelista R., Meliciani V., Savona M. (2024), Technology, Global Value Chains and Functional Specialisation in Europe, Research Policy.
Revised version of a CESifo Working paper version, available here.Bontadini F. and Vona F. (2023), Anatomy of Green Specialisation: Evidence from EU Production Data, 1995-2015, Environmental and Resource Economics.
Bontadini F. and Savona M. (2023), Revisiting the natural resource curse: exploiting backward linkages for export diversification and structural economic transformation, Development and Change.
Bontadini F., Cowan A., and Saha A., (2023) Moving up the value chain with South-South cooperation for trade and technology? An analysis of India's trade with East Africa, Critical Perspecitves on International Business.
Bontadini F., Meliciani V., Savona M., Wirkierman A. (2022) Nearshoring e Farsharing in Europa nell’economia globale, Rivista di Politica Economica
Bontadini F., Evangelista R., Meliciani V., Savona M. (2022), Patterns of integration in global value chains and the changing structure of employment in the European Union, Industrial and Corporate Change.
Bontadini F. (2021), Trade Specialisation and Performance in Global Value Chains, Industrial and Corporate Change.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
Corrado, C., Haskel J., Iommi M., Jona-Lasinio C. and Bontadini F. (2025) Data, Intangible Capital and Productivity in Basu S., L. Eldridge, J. Haltiwanger and E. Strassinger (Eds.), Technology, Productivity and Economic Growth, University of Chicago Press.
Bontadini F., Evangelista R., Meliciani V., Savona M., (2020) Integration in Global Value Chains and Employment Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics.
Ongoing Work:
Bontadini F., Meliciani V., (2025), Selective Industrial Policy for the EU Open Strategic Autonomy: the Role of Products' Relatedness. Single Market Economics Papers 30 DG GROW European Commission.
Frattini F., Vona F., Bontadini F., (2024) Does Green Re-industrialization Pay off? Impacts on Employment, Wages and Productivity, FEEM Working Paper 2024.23
Bontadini F., Filippucci F., Jona-Lasinio C., Nicoletti G., Saia A., (2024) Digitalisation of financial services, access to finance and aggregate economic performance, OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 1818.
Bontadini F., Campi M., Dueñas M., (2023) Being at the core: firm product specialisation LEM Working Paper Series 2023/09 - here.
Bontadini F., Meliciani V., Savona M., Wirkierman A., (2022) Nearshoring and Farsharing in Europe within the Global Economy.
CESifo EconPol Forum 23 (5), 37-42 here.Bontadini F., Vona F. (2022) Green specialisation and labour market outcomes in EU manufacturing industries, EU-DGEMP, Social Situation Monitor here.
Bontadini F. (2019) Power and Export Sophistication in Buyer-Supplier Relationships: Insights from Colombian Customs Data, SPRU Working Paper SWPS 2019-11.