All Outputs (4)

The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress (2019)
Journal Article
Conconi, P., Facchini, G., Steinhardt, M. F., & Zanardi, M. (2019). The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress. Economics and Politics,

We compare the drivers of U.S. congressmen's votes on trade and migration reforms since the 1970's. Standard trade theory suggests that trade reforms that lower barriers to goods from less skilled-labor abundant countries and migration reforms that l... Read More about The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the U.S. Congress.

Coercive trade policy (2019)
Journal Article
Anesi, V., & Facchini, G. (2019). Coercive trade policy. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 11(3), 225-256. https://doi.org/10.1257/mic.20170085

Coercion is used by one government (the sender") to influence the trade practices of another (the target"). We build a two-country trade model in which coercion can be exercised unilaterally or channeled through a “weak" international organization wi... Read More about Coercive trade policy.

Academic Salaries and Public Evaluation of University Research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework (2019)
Journal Article
De Fraja, G., Facchini, G., & Gathergood, J. (2019). Academic Salaries and Public Evaluation of University Research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework. Economic Policy, 34(99), 523-583. https://doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiz009

We study the effects of public evaluation of university research on the pay structures of academic departments. A simple equilibrium model of university pay determination shows how the pay-performance relationship can be explained by the incentives i... Read More about Academic Salaries and Public Evaluation of University Research: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework.

China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty (2019)
Journal Article
Facchini, G., Liu, M. Y., Maria Mayda, A., & Zhou, M. (2019). China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty. Journal of International Economics, 120, 126-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2019.04.002

We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the r... Read More about China's "Great Migration": the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty.