Lavinia Piemontese
Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow
CLEAN - Bocconi University.
Mail: lavinia.piemontese@unibocconi.it
My fields of research are development economics, political economy, applied microeconomics, and economics of crime / civil conflict.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) in June 2019 and I was a post-doc at ENS-Lyon from September 2019 to September 2022.
PUBLICATIONS
Uncovering Illegal and Underground Economies: The Case of Mafia Extortion Racketeering Journal of Public Economics, Volume 227, 104997, 2023.
The Power of Markets: Impact of Desert Locust Invasions on Child Health (with B. Conte Leite and A. Tapsoba) Journal of Health Economics, Volume 87, 102712, 2023.
Misperceptions of unemployment and individual labor market outcomes (with A. Cardoso and A. Loviglio), IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5:13, 2016.
The Spread of Mafia in Northern Italy: The Role of Public Infrastructure Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI Spa, issue 4, pages 113-140, 2013.
WORKING PAPERS
The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Production Network Approach (with M. Couttenier and N. Monnet) R&R Review of Economic Studies
No 16984, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
Settlers and Seekers: Proximity to Immigrants and Individual Voting Behaviour (with G. Prarolo and A. Schiavone) [Draft available upon request]
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
The aggregate cost of inefficient public spending (with A. Tulli) [Slides available upon request]
Integration Policies and Local Wealth (with M. Carillo and F. Russo)
POLICY WORK
Recovery from Conflict: Lessons of Success (with H. Mueller and A. Tapsoba), The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS7970, 2017.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor:
Advanced Econometrics: ENS-Lyon Graduate Fall 2019-2021
Introduction to Research in Econometrics: ENS-Lyon Undergraduate Spring 2020-2022
Political Economy: ENS-Lyon Graduate Fall 2019-2020
Topics in Applied Econometrics: ENS-Lyon Graduate. Winter 2021
Teaching assistant:
Topics in Applied Econometrics and Public Policy: Barcelona GSE Graduate Spring 2018-2019
Master Thesis Mentor: Barcelona GSE Graduate Spring 2017
Quantitative and Statistical Methods 2: Barcelona GSE Graduate Spring 2017
Econometrics : Universitat Autonoma Barcelona Graduate Spring 2015-2016