Luca De Benedictis

Luca De Benedictis

Nulla dies sine linea, ... more or less.

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On the pro-trade effects of immigrants

Published in Review of World Economics, 2014

The paper is about the causal effect of immigrant entrepreneurs on trade flows at the province level.

Recommended citation: Bratti, M., De Benedictis, L. & Santoni, G. (2014). "On the pro-trade effects of immigrants" Review of World Economics. 150, 557–594
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Implementing propensity score matching with network data: the effect of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on bilateral trade

Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C, 2017

The paper is about the application of propensity score matching to trade networks.

Recommended citation: Arpino, B., De Benedictis, L. & Mattei A. (2017). "Implementing propensity score matching with network data: the effect of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on bilateral trade" Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C. 66(3), 537–554.
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The impact of trade costs on the European Regional Trade Network: An empirical and theoretical analysis

Published in Review of International Economics, 2018

The paper analyzes the topology of the E.U. regional trade network and build a simple new geography model upon it.

Recommended citation: Basile, R., Commendatore P., De Benedictis, L., & Kubin, I. (2018). "The impact of trade costs on the European Regional Trade Network: An empirical and theoretical analysis" Review of International Economics. 26(3), 578-609.
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Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas and exports

Published in Journal of Regional Science, 2020

The paper is about the causal effect of immigrant entrepreneurs on trade flows at the province level.

Recommended citation: Bratti, M., De Benedictis, L. & Santoni, G. (2020). "Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas and exports" Journal of Regional Science. 60(2), 249-272
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Gender bias in the Erasmus network of universities

Published in Applied Network Science, 2020

The paper is about the gender bias in the Erasmus program between 2008 and 2013, using novel data at the university level.

Recommended citation: De Benedictis, L. & Leoni, S. (2020). "Gender bias in the Erasmus network of universities" Applied Network Science. 150, 557–594
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The Impact of Immigration on the Internal Mobility of Natives and Foreign-born Residents: Evidence from Italy

Published in Spatial Economic Analysis, 2021

The paper is about the relationship between immigration flows and internal mobility in Italy.

Recommended citation: Basile, R., De Benedictis, L., Durban, M., Faggian, A., & Mínguez, R. (2021). "The impact of immigration on the internal mobility of natives and foreign-born residents: evidence from Italy" Spatial Economic Analysis. 16(1), 9–26.
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Segregation with Social Linkages: Evaluating Schelling’s Model with Networked Individuals

Published in Metroeconomica, 2022

The paper generalizes the original Schelling model of racial and residential segregation to a context of variable externalities due to social linkages.

Recommended citation: Cerqueti R., De Benedictis L., and Leone Sciabolazza V. (2024). "Segregation with Social Linkages: Evaluating Schelling’s Model with Networked Individuals" Metroeconomica. 73(2), 384-440.
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Cultures as networks of cultural traits: A unifying framework for measuring culture and cultural distances

Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2023

The paper is about culture as a network of cultural traits and the cultural distance between countries.

Recommended citation: Vinciotti V., Rondinelli R. and De Benedictis L. (2023). "Cultures as networks of cultural traits: A unifying framework for measuring culture and cultural distances" Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 186(3), 264–293.
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Environmental migration? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature

Published in Review of World Economics, 2024

The paper provides a comprehensive quantitative overview of the literature on the relationship between environmental changes and human migration.

Recommended citation: Cipollina, M., De Benedictis, L. & Scibè, E. (2024). "Environmental migration? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature" Review of World Economics. 160, 1393–1441.
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Joint modelling of national cultures accounting for within and between-country heterogeneity

Published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2024

The paper is about cultural heterogeneity within and between countries.

Recommended citation: Vinciotti, De Benedictis and Wit (2024). " Joint modelling of national cultures accounting for within and between-country heterogeneity " Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society.
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talks

US trade policy and the new wave of de-Globalization

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This is a 50 minutes talk on tariffs, US trade policy, POTUS, TACO and Tt2.0 and its motivation and consequences (Uncertainty; Financial markets; The dollar and long terms US government bonds; The Grievance doctrine and the US Current Account; CA = S - I; Productivity; Openness) and on what is coming next (What trade economists have to say?; Best strategies; Multi-level games and Geoeconomics; Rules of law; The end of multilateralism? de-Globalization?).

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Immigrant Workers, Entrepreneurs, Firm Exports (and Beyond): Evidence from Italy

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With Massimiliano Bratti, Gianluca Santoni, Patrizia Cella, Marinella Pepe and Francesca Alonzi we examine the impact of immigrant workers and entrepreneurs on exports between 2014 and 2017 using administrative employer-employee data linked with customs data on the population of manufacturing firms in Italy. Focusing on firm-level data enables us to explore the scale at which pro-trade effects manifest, whether firm or local. Our analysis demonstrates that both the stock of immigrants working in a firm and foreign entrepreneurs raise a firm’s export to their countries of origin, with the latter having a larger effect. On the other hand, local immigrant workers and immigrant entrepreneurs do not appear to have sizeable spillover effects on firms’ exports. Interestingly, the pro-trade effect of foreign entrepreneurs extends not only to their countries of origin, but also to the average export destination. Some preliminary results suggest that improved worker productivity in immigrant-owned enterprises may explain some of this increased competitiveness.

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‘Never Again’ in the Digital Age: Mapping Online Narratives on Jews and Hate Speech through Network Analysis

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With Giuseppe Giordano and Maria Prosperina Vitale we show that speeches around Holocaust Remembrance Day have a recurring pattern, punctuated by institutional moments like the “Remembrance Day”. Hate speeches are traditionally linked to the memory of the events and the Jews’ historical persecution. Recent events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have given rise to new semantic domains, some of which emerge as forms of hatred reversed and spilled over from Israel to Jews.

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Discrimination, Political Orientation and the Probability to Emigrate and Escape: University Professors in Fascist Italy

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With Sascha O. Becker we study the decision to emigrate of academics of Jewish origin dismissed from their positions by the Mussolini government in 1938, when new Racial Laws were introduced, opening a new phase of increased persecution of Jews by restricting their rights and livelihoods. We use rich individual-level data, from the 1938 census on public employees, on the universe of Jewish full professors, revealing their family structure, domestic and international academic recognition, and political orientation. Jewish academics with children, with Jewish spouses, those whose parents are deceased, as well as young, internationally recognised scholars, and the ones that converted to Catholicism are more likely to emigrate. Jewish academics who are either openly fascist or anti-fascist are less likely to emigrate. We interpret the latter result along the lines of Albert O. Hischmann’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty paradigm together with the influence of relational capital on the probability to emigrate: the exertion of Voice though the public expression of political opinions (e.g. signing politically oriented Manifestos in the 1920s), indicates a higher sense attachment to local high education institutions and to the social role of university professors. This form of loyalty (to local institutions or to past self) imply a higher cost of Exit and reduces the probability of emigration. At the same time, political activism imply the formation of relational capital which is inherently local, in comparison with the social connections established by apolitical scholars that invest only in pure academic relational capital, which is more footloose. The characteristics of the social networks of the University professors under scrutiny is, therefore, negatively influencing the probability to emigrate of the politically active ones.

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