Professor Paola Conconi
About
Paola Conconi is a Professor of Economics (Statutory Chair) at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. Before joining Oxford, she was a Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a member of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES).
Professor Conconi is a Research Fellow of the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) International Trade and Regional Economics Program, a CESifo Research Fellow, a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, and the Director of the CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development. She has published many papers in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy and the Review of Economic Studies.
She has received several prestigious grants, including an Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to study the interplay between trade agreements and supply chains. Her main research interests are in international trade, political economy and firm organisation.
She obtained a BA in Political Science from the University of Bologna, a MA in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University and a MSc and PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick.
Expertise
- Economics
- Applied microeconomics
- Resources and environment
- Political economy
- Trade and spatial economics
Selected publications
- Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024)
- Lobbying for Globalisation (The Economic Journal, 2024)
- The Tyranny of the Single-Minded: Guns, Environment, and Abortion (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021)
- The Pursuit of Non-Trade Policy Objectives in EU Trade Policy (World Trade Review, 2021)
- Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis (Journal of Political Economy, 2019)
- The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress (Economics & Politics, 2019)
- From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin (American Economic Review, 2018)
- Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? (Review of Economic Studies, 2016)
Media experience
Professor Paola Conconi's articles have been featured in many Vox.eu columns and other academic websites/blogs such as LSE Blogs and LSE CentrePiece magazine, NAJ Economics and ProMarket. They also have been cited in articles published in The Washington Post, The Economist and Fortune.