STEFANO ANTONIO BOLATTO - Curriculum vitae
Citizenship: Italian
Office22, DSE, University of Bologna
Strada Maggiore 45Bologna- Italy,40138
Email: ; Phone: (+39) 05120 92651
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Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Turin at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy, March 2013.
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Productivity and Gains from Trade.
Dissertation Committee: Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Jonathan Eaton and Fabio Montobbio.
Research Visiting Scholar, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, July 2011- July 2012.
MA. in Economics, CORIPE Piemonte at Collegio Carlo Alberto, June 2008.
M.Sc. (“Laurea magistrale”) in Economics (Summa Cum Laude), University of Turin, April 2007.
International Student, Universidad National de Cordoba, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Cordoba, Argentina, February-August 2006.
B.A. (“Laurea triennale”) in EconomicSciences (Summa Cum Laude), University of Turin, November 2004.
Fields of Interest
International Trade, Industrial Organization, Intellectual Property Rights, Open Economy Macroeconomics.
Work Experience
Academic activities:
Post-Doc Research Fellow, University of Bologna (Department of Economics, DSE), Bologna, Italy, September 2014-on going.
Research Fellow, CERIS-CNR (Italian National Council of Research), Turin, Italy, October 2012 – June 2014.
Research Assistant, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Fall 2008.
Research Assistant, CERIS-CNR, Spring 2008.
Non-Academic activities:
External Consultant, ITC-ILO (International Training Centre of the International Labor Organization), Turin, Italy, Summer 2013.
External Consultant for the Qualitative and Sectoral Analysis Office, Cerved Group S.p.A. (at
“Centrale dei Bilanci”), Turin, Italy, October 2008 - May 2011.
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Professor of International Economics and International Finance, University of Bologna, School of Economics, Management and Statistics, Bologna, academic year 2016-17 and 2017-2018.
Instructor of International Finance, Fondazione AlmaMater, Master in International Relations, year 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Adjunct Professor of International Economics, University of Bologna, School of Political Science, Bologna, academic year 2015-16 and 2016-17.
Adjunct Professor of International Economics, University of Trieste, Department of Political Science, Gorizia, Italy, academic year 2014-15.
Teaching Assistant of Macroeconomics, University of Bologna, School of Political Science, Forlì, Italy, academic year 2014-15 and 2015-16.
Teaching Assistant of Economics, Department of Political Science, University of Turin, Biella, Italy, academic year 2010-11.
Publications
“Deconstructing the Gains from Trade: Selection of Industries vs. Reallocation of Workers”, with M. Sbracia, Review of International Economics, Vol.24 (2), pp. 344–363, 2016
Also published in the series: Temi di discussione della Banca d’Italia, N° 1037 - November 2015.
“Vertical Specialization and Diversification along the Aviation Global Supply Chain”, with P. Frigero and S. Grimaldi, L'Industria,Vol. 1/2015, Ed. Il Mulino, 2015.
Working Papers
“Collusive Vertical Relations” with L.Lambertini, University of Bologna, Working Paper DSE (1103), ISSN 2282-6483, pp. 1-14.
“Export Intermediaries and Adjustments to Exchange Rate Movements” with M.Grazzi and C. Tomasi, University of Bologna, Working Paper DSE (2004), ISSN 2282-6483, p.1-35.
“Intangible Assets and the Organization of Global Supply Chains” with A. Naghavi, G.Ottaviano and K. Zajc,University of Bologna, Working Paper DSE(1105), ISSN 2282-6483, pp.1-48.
“Trade across Countries and Manufacturing Sectors with Heterogeneous Trade Elasticities”, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano Development Studies Working Paper No. 360, October 2013.
works in Progress
“Gains from Trade when Accounting for Services: Rules of Thumb and Sufficient Statistics”, with M. Sbracia
“Symmetry Breakdowns in Oligopoly Markets”, with L. Lambertini and G. Pignataro
“On the Non-Neutrality of a Border Adjustment Tax”,with A. Nocco, G. Ottaviano, and M.Salto
“The Missing Trade Elasticity and the Floating Size of the Gains from Trade”
“Two Birds, One Stone:Downstream Collusion and the Inefficiency from Double Marginalisation”, with L. Lambertini and G..Pignataro.
Chapters in Books
“Trade Specialization Patterns and Growth: an Indexes-based Analysis” (in Italian); with F. Boffa and G. Zanetti, in Scritti in onore di Vittorio Coda, EGEA, Milan, pp. 1739-1758, October 2010.
Three chapters in G. Zanetti, “Global Value Chains and Evolution of the Large Firms”, Collana Studi e ricerche – Fondazione Ansaldo, Genoa, September 2014.
Conferences, Presentations and Academic Activity
Conference on Global Production, National University of Singapore, Singapore, December 2017.
European Trade Study Group (ETSG) Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy, September 2017.
Conference on Global Interactions, Bari, Italy, September 2017.
Sardinian Empirical Trade Conference, Cagliari, Italy, September 2017.
CompNet Annual Conference, European Commission, Bruxelles, Belgium, June 2017.
Italian Trade Study Group (ITSG) Workshop, Bergamo, Italy, June 2017.
Seminar at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2016.
Organizer of the Reading Groups of Macroeconomics and International Trade at DSE-University of Bologna, years2014-15 and 2015-16.
Seminar at CORE, UC Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, January 2014.
“Global Challenges” seminar, Centro Studi Luca D’Agliano, Milan, Italy, December 2013.
International Workshop at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, November 2013.
European Trade Study Group (ETSG) Annual Meeting, Birmingham, UK, September 2013.
MOOD 2013 Doctoral Workshop, EIEF, Rome, Italy, July 2013.
Italian Trade Study Group (ITSG) Workshop, Ancona, Italy, June 2013.
Referee services
Economica, International Game Theory Review, IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Small Business Economics.
Fellowships and Awards
Early Career Award, National University of Singapore, Global Production Network Center, December 2017.
“Fabio Gobbo” Award for best PhD Paper 2014, Italian Association for Industrial Economics and Industrial Policy (SIEPI), Naples, Italy, February 2014.
Full tuition waiver, CORIPE Piemonte, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
Scholarship for students involved in exchange programs, University of Turin, Spring-Summer 2006.
Personal Skills
Languages : Italian(mother tongue); English (very fluent); Spanish (fluent).
Computer Skills: Scientific WorkPlace, Mathematica, Matlab, Stata, E-views, LaTeX.
December 2017