Domenico Favoino Favoino
Former Research Assistant,
Domenico Favoino, an Italian citizen, currently worked at Bruegel in 2016 as a Research Assistant in the Energy and Climate Policy area in the micro team. Prior to this, heworked as a research assistant at Bocconi University, in the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management; in particular, he has been involved in a research project regarding firms' markups, productivity and financial capability. Moreover, he worked as a trainee at the European Commission - DG COMP, Office of Principal Advisor, focusing on ex-post economic evaluation of competition policies on energy markets. He holds a Master's degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan.
In his Master's thesis, Domenico made an empirical test of a model of monopolistic competition and trade on European firm-level data, involving the structural estimation of productivity and markup of firms.
His research interests include International Trade, Empirical Industrial Organization and Energy and Climate Policy.
He is fluent in English and Italian.
Featured work
Update of the EFIGE dataset
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Is the oil price-GDP link broken?
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Too early to celebrate: What markets tell us about the credibility of the Paris climate agreement
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