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Mattia Di Ubaldo

University of Sussex, UK

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Author

Current position

Research Fellow, University of Sussex Business School, UK

Research interest

Firm productivity, foreign direct investment, innovation economics, international trade, labor economics, trade policy

Website

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/258808

Past positions

Postdoctoral Researcher, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Ireland

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Sussex, 2016

Selected publications

  • "Investment in knowledge-based capital and productivity: Firm-level evidence from a small open economy." Review of Income and Wealth (Forthcoming) (with I. Siedschlag).

  • "Innovation and self-employment." In: Zimmermann, K. F. (ed.). The Handbook of Labour, Human Resources and Population Economics. New York: Springer, Forthcoming (with T. Ciarli and M. Savona).

  • Productivity Spillovers From Multinational Activity to Local Firms in Ireland. OECD Productivity Working Paper No. 16, 2018 (with M. Lawless and I. Siedschlag).

  • Go Ahead and Trade: The Effect of Uncertainty Removal in the EU’s GSP Scheme.” RESPECT Mimeo, 2019 (with I. Borchert).

  • Determinants of Firms' Inputs Sourcing Choices: The Role of Institutional and Regulatory Factors. Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Working Paper No. 599, 2018 (with I. Siedschlag).

article(s)

  • International trade regulation and job creation Updated

    Trade policy is not an employment policy and should not be expected to have major effects on overall employment

    L. Alan WintersMattia Di Ubaldo, February 2020
    Trade regulation can create jobs in the sectors it protects or promotes, but almost always at the expense of destroying a roughly equivalent number of jobs elsewhere in the economy. At a product-specific or micro level and in the short term, controlling trade could reduce the offending imports and save jobs, but for the economy as a whole and in the long term, this has neither theoretical support nor evidence in its favor. Given that protection may have other—usually adverse—effects, understanding the difficulties in using it to manage employment is important for economic policy.
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