Curriculum vitae

Schivardi Short bio

Current position

Full Professor, Luiss University

Education:

1998   StanfordUniversity, Ph. D. in Economics

1992    Bocconi University, Laurea in Economics, magna cum laude.

Research Interests

Industrial Organization, Applied Micro, Labor.

Other affiliations:

Research Fellow, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Research Affiliate

Prizes

ERC advanced grant 2019-2024 “Industrial Structure and the European Productivity Growth Divergence”

Previous Positions

2014-2017:  Rodolfo DeBenedetti Professor of Entrepreneurship, Università Bocconi

2012-2014: Professor, LUISS University

2006-2012: Full Professor, Universty of Cagliari

2004-2006 Head of the Industrial Organization Unit, Bank ofItaly, Research Department

2003-2004 Harvard Economics Department, visiting fellow

1998-2004 Economist, Bank ofItaly, Research Department

Recent Selected Publications

• “Can Entrepreneurship Be Learned from Other Entrepreneurs?”, with Luigi Guiso and Luigi Pistaferri, Journal of Labor Economics, Forthcoming.
• “The IT Revolution and Southern Europe’s Two Lost Decades”, with Tom Schmitz, Journal of the European Economic Association, Forthcoming.
• “Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance”, with Luca Flabbi, Mario Macis and Andrea Moro, The Economic Journal, Volume129, Issue 622, pp. 2390–2423, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez012.
• “Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Competition in Lending Markets”, with Greg Crawford and Nicola Pavanini, The American Economic Review, Volume 108, Issue 7, pp. 1659–1701, 2018.
• “Employment and Wage Insurance within Firms: Worldwide Evidence”, with Andrew Ellul and Marco Pagano, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 31, Issue 4, 1 April 2018, Pages 1298–1340, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhx104.
• “Demand or Productivity: What Determines Firm Growth?”, with Andrea Pozzi, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 47, pp. 608–630, 2016.
• “Export and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?”, with Mario Macis, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 34, pp. 945–978, 2016.
• “Corporate Control and Executive Selection”,  with  Francesco Lippi, Quantitative Economics, Forthcoming.
• “Credit within the firm”,  with  Luigi Guiso and Luigi Pistaferri, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 80, pp. 211-247, 2013.
• “Does Idiosyncratic Business Risk Matter for Growth? ”, with C. Michelacci,  Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 11, pp. 343-368, 2013.
•  “Entry Barriers in Italian Retail Trade”, with E. Viviano,  Economic Journal, Vol. 121, pp. 145-170, 2011.
• “What determines entrepreneurial clusters?”, with L. Guiso, Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 61-86, 2011.
• “Skill dispersion and Productivity: an Analysis with Matched Data”, with S. Iranzo and E. Tosetti, Journal of Labor Economics¸ Vol. 26, pp. 247-285,
• “Strategic Experimentation and Disruptive Technological Change,” with M. Schneider,  Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 11, pp. 386-412, 2008.
• “Spillovers in Industrial Districts”, with Luigi Guiso,  Economic Journal, Vol. 117, pp. 68–93, 2007.
• “Insurance within the Firm”, with L. Guiso and L. Pistaferri, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 113, pp. 1054-1087, 2005.

Other professional activities

• Since 2019: regular visitor, European Central Bank
• Editorial Board, Economia Italiana
• Consultant for various public and private institutions (Bank of Italy, ECB, Ernst and Young, Cerved, ANIA,NERA)
• Advisory board, Fondo Gamma Immobiliare, 2017 onwards.
• Co-author of the Report to the Prime Minister for the reform of the firms subsidies system (“Rapporto Giavazzi”)
• Member of the panel for the research assessment of the Italian University system (GEV), 2011-2012.
• Member of the founding group of EIEF
• Member of the Panel for Economic Policy, 2010-2012
• Member of the Editorial committee of lavoce.info (for my policy articles there, see http://www.lavoce.info/lavocepuntoinfo/autori/-redazione_lavoce/pagina662.html)

Grants

• National coordinator for the Italian PRIN grant Labor and Finance, financed by the MIUR for the years 2012-2014
• Coordinator for the regional grant “What generates an entrepreneur?”, 2011-2012
• Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies, grant for the project A comparative analysis of firms’ post-entry performance: the US and Italy, entailing access to the US firm level data of the Institute (November 2011).
• Local coordinator for the Italian PRIN grant Corporate Ownership, Control and Governance, financed by the MIUR for the years 2007-2009
• Coordinator for the regional grant La valutazione delle politiche scolastiche della Regione Sardegna, 2010-2011
• Participants to the IAREG and EFIGE projects, financed by the EU within the seventh framework