Matilde Bombardini

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Matilde Bombardini is an Italian economist, who is a professor of Economics of International Trade at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver.[1] She is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) in the Institutions, Organisations & Growth Program[2] since June 2007[3][4] and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) for the Political Economy Program since April 2009.[1]

She sits as an Advisory Committee Member for the Empirical Investigations in International Trade (EIIT) conference every year since November 2006.[3] Apart from being revered as a Distinguished Scholar at the Sauder School of Business,[5] she is also the Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics since September 2017.[6]

Early life and education[edit]

Bombardini began her undergraduate studies in the field of Economics at Università di Bologna and graduated as Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics with a magna cum laude in the year 2000.[3] During her time as an undergraduate student, she went for an exchange program to The University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in the year 1998-1999 where she discovered her interest in empirical research surrounding trade.[1] In 2004, she was the winner of the EIIT (Empirical Investigation in International Trade) Graduate Student Competition.[3] In September 2005, she completed her PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[3] Upon completing her PhD, she was appointed as assistant professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and has been in UBC ever since.[3] Although, she was also the visiting assistant professor for a year at The Booth School of Business at University of Chicago from August 2009 to June 2010.[3] She was promoted to associate professor at UBC in July 2013 and was also a visiting associate professor for a year at Stanford University from August 2017 to July 2018.[3]

Career[edit]

After earning her PhD in 2005, she was appointed as an assistant professor at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver.[3] In July 2013, she was promoted to associate professor at The University of British Columbia.[3] Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of International Economics. Bombardini is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an Advisory Committee Member for the Empirical Investigations in International Trade (EIIT) conference.

Publications[edit]

Bombardini has published numerous papers, receiving 1,224 citations as of 2019.[7]

  • Bombardini, Matilde (July 1, 2008). "Firm heterogeneity and lobby participation". Journal of International Economics. 75 (2): 329–348. doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2008.03.003. ISSN 0022-1996.
  • Bombardini, Matilde; Trebbi, Francesco (August 1, 2011). "Votes or money? Theory and evidence from the US Congress" (PDF). Journal of Public Economics. 95 (7): 587–611. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.11.018. ISSN 0047-2727., with Francesco Trebbi
  • Bombardini, Matilde; Kurz, Christopher J.; Morrow, Peter M. (2012). "Ricardian trade and the impact of domestic competition on export performance". Canadian Journal of Economics. 45 (2): 585–612. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01715.x. ISSN 1540-5982. S2CID 16649950., with Christopher J. Kurz and Peter M. Morrow
  • Bombardini, Matilde; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Pupato, Germán (May 2012). "Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows". American Economic Review. 102 (5): 2327–2348. doi:10.1257/aer.102.5.2327. ISSN 0002-8282. S2CID 12427435., with Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato
  • Bombardini, Matilde; Trebbi, Francesco (May 1, 2012). "Competition and political organization: Together or alone in lobbying for trade policy?" (PDF). Journal of International Economics. Symposium on the Global Dimensions of the Financial Crisis. 87 (1): 18–26. doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.11.011. ISSN 0022-1996., with Francesco Trebbi
  • Bombardini, Matilde; Trebbi, Francesco (December 1, 2012). "Risk Aversion and Expected Utility Theory: An Experiment with Large and Small Stakes". Journal of the European Economic Association. 10 (6): 1348–1399. doi:10.1111/j.1542-4774.2012.01086.x. ISSN 1542-4766., with Francesco Trebbi
  • Bombardini, Matilde; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Pupato, Germán (March 1, 2014). "Unobservable skill dispersion and comparative advantage". Journal of International Economics. 92 (2): 317–329. doi:10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.11.005. ISSN 0022-1996., with Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato
  • Bertrand, Marianne; Bombardini, Matilde; Trebbi, Francesco (December 2014). "Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process". American Economic Review. 104 (12): 3885–3920. doi:10.1257/aer.104.12.3885. ISSN 0002-8282., with Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi
  • "Does Exporting Improve Matching? Evidence from French Employer-Employee Data". Cambridge, MA. May 2015. doi:10.3386/w21225. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help), with Gianluca Orefice and Maria Tito
  • Bombardini, Matilde; Li, Bingjing (November 2016). "Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China". Cambridge, MA. doi:10.3386/w22804. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help), with Bingjing Li
  • Bertrand, Marianne; Bombardini, Matilde; Fisman, Raymond; Trebbi, Francesco (March 2018). "Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence". Cambridge, MA. doi:10.3386/w24451. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help), with Matilde Bombardini, Raymond Fisman, and Francesco Trebbi
  • Bombardini, Matilde; Trebbi, Francesco (September 2019). "Empirical Models of Lobbying". Cambridge, MA. doi:10.3386/w26287. S2CID 202545913. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help), with Francesco Trebbi

Research in progress[edit]

Her current research focus is simultaneously working on three different projects concerning Political Economy and International Trade. Her first project explores the association between pollution and trade in China.[8] Together with Francesco Trebbi and a team of research assistants, her second project explores the subject of financial regulation, especially the ways in which the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform of 2010 is implemented.[8] Her third project focuses on the influence of trade and the link between workers and firms.[9]

Awards[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Matilde Bombardini | Vancouver School of Economics". economics.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  2. ^ "Institutions, Organizations & Growth". CIFAR. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "cv22nov2019". economics.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  4. ^ "Bio -". CIFAR. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  5. ^ "Sauder Distinguished Scholars - Research Support | UBC Sauder School of Business". www.sauder.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  6. ^ "Editorial Board". International Economics. 157: ii. May 2019. doi:10.1016/s2110-7017(19)30082-4. ISSN 2110-7017.
  7. ^ "Matilde Bombardini". Google Scholar Citations. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  8. ^ a b Bombardini, Matilde; Li, Bingjing (November 2016). "Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China". Cambridge, MA. doi:10.3386/w22804. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Bertrand, Marianne; Bombardini, Matilde; Fisman, Raymond; Hackinen, Bradley; Trebbi, Francesco (December 2018). "Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy". Cambridge, MA. doi:10.3386/w25329. S2CID 54023927. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ "CWEN/RFÉ Young Researcher Award 2012 CWEC/CFEC". cwec-cfec.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  11. ^ "Bank of Canada Announces Recipient of 2015 Governor's Award". www.bankofcanada.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  12. ^ "Matilde Bombardini Wins Prestigious Killam Research Prize | Vancouver School of Economics". economics.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
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