Giacomo Ponzetto is a senior researcher at CREI and an affiliated professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the BSE, as well as a research affiliate of CEPR and an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. His research lies at the intersection of Political Economy and International and Regional Economics. He has written on political and legal institutions, on the political economy of trade policy, on federalism and political centralization, and on entrepreneurship and the spatial distribution of economic activity. His research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.
In 2016, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project, "Citizens, Institutions and Globalization."
- 2016: ERC Starting Grant, "Citizens, Institutions, and Globalization"
- 2014: BSE Seed Grant, "Gunsmiths in 32 European countries from 1400 to 1900"
Working Papers
Do Incompetent Politicians Breed Populist Voters? Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Fundamental Errors in the Voting Booth
Publications
Recognition ProgramGino Gancia, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto and Jaume Ventura
Globalization and Political Structure
Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol.20, No 3, 1276-1310, June 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac019
Recognition ProgramA. Patrick Behrer, Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto and Andrei Shleifer
Securing Property Rights
Journal of Political Economy, Vol.129, No 4, 1157 - 1192, April 2021, 10.1086/712733
Recognition ProgramGino Gancia, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto and Jaume Ventura