Luca De Benedictis

Professore/ssa Ordinario/a

Biografia

I teach International Economics at the Universitas Mercatorum and at Luiss University, both in Rome, Italy. My research field is the empirics of international trade and migration, with an emphasis on visualisation, data analysis and applied econometrics. My ongoing research deals with network theory and applied network analysis, on causal models with interferences, on historical trade and trade policy and on the theory and application of gravity models to international trade and migration issues. Recent research project are on the Probability of Emigrations of University Professors in Fascist Italy (joint with Sascha O. Becker); on Environmental Migration (joint with Maria Cipollina and Elisa Scibè); on Emigrant Entrepreneurs (with Massimiliano Bratti and Gianluca Santoni); on Culture as Network (joint with Veronica Vinciotti and Ernst Wit).

Facoltà

Scienze della Società e della Comunicazione

Materia d'insegnamento

Economia della globalizzazione [LM39]

Dipartimento

Economia, statistica e impresa

Docente di riferimento

LM-38 - Lingue per la comunicazione internazionale

Eventuali altri ruoli

Direttore del Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Impresa

Ricevimento

Mercoledì (18:00 - 19:00), previo appuntamento

Modalità di prenotazione degli uffici

online

Pubblicazioni

https://www.unimercatorum.iris.cineca.it/cris/rp/rp00204

Summary:

Number of publications (included in the online cv and with ISBN or DOI): 77

Number of publications (included in Google Scholar): 151

Number of documents in Scopus: 28

Average annual number of publications since PhD (1992): 2.35

Number of publications “Classe A - Anvur - Area13” in the last 10 years: 9

Number of books edited: 1

Encyclopaedia entry: 4

h-index (Google Scholar): 22

i10-index: 41

h-index (Scopus): 13

Total number of citations (Google Scholar): 3378

Total number of citations (Scopus, 26 documents): 888

Total number of citations since 2020 (Google Scholar): 1261

Highest cited publication (number of citations in Google Scholar): 644

Average number of citations: 67

In the last 10 years I have been working on several topics.

Trade and migration in contemporary and historical context:

“From the historical Roman road network to modern infrastructure in Italy”, with Vania Licio and Anna Maria Pinna. Journal of Regional Science, 63(5), 1162-1191, 2023. doi: 10.1111/ jors.12659.

“The Impact of Immigration on the Internal Mobility of Natives and Foreign-born Residents: Evidence from Italy” with Roberto Basile, Maria Durban, Alessandra Fagian, Roman Minues Salido, Spatial Economic Analysis, 16(1), 9-26, 2021. doi: 10.1080/17421772.2020.1729997.

"Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas and exports" with Massimiliano Bratti and Gianluca Santoni, Journal of Regional Science, 60(2), 249-272, 2020. doi: 10.1111/jors.12455.

“Implementing propensity score matching with network data: the effect of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade on bilateral trade”, with Bruno Arpino and Alessandra Mattei, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C, 66(3), 1-18, 2017. doi: 10.1111/rssc.12173.

Network Analysis

“Environmental migration? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature”, with Maria Cipollina and Elisa Scibè. Review of World Economics, 30 March, 2024. doi: 10.1007/s10290-024-00529-5.

“Segregation with Social Linkages: Evaluating Schelling’s Model with Networked Individuals”, with Roy Cerqueti and Valerio Leone Sciabolazza, Metroeconomica, 73(2), 384-440, 2022. doi: 10.1111/meca.12367.

"Gender bias in the Erasmus network of universities" with Silvia Leoni, Applied Network Science, 5(64), 1-25, 2020. doi: 10.1007 /s41109-020-00297-9. "Distance-varying assortativity and clustering of the international trade network" with Angela Abbate, Giorgio Fagiolo and Lucia Tajoli, Networks Science, 1-28, 2018. doi: 10.1017/nws.2018.7.

“Network Analysis of World Trade using the BACI-CEPII dataset” , with Silvia Nenci, Lucia Tajoli, Gianluca Santoni and Claudio Vicarelli, Global Economy Journal, 14(3-4), 287-344, 2014. doi: 10.1515/gej-2014-0032. [most cited article].

“The impact of trade costs on the European Regional Trade Network: An empirical and theoretical analysis”, with Roberto Basile, Pasquale Commendatore and Ingrid Kubin, Review of International Economics, 26(3), 578-609, 2017. doi: 10.1111/roie.12314.

The measurement of culture

“Joint modelling of national cultures accounting for within and between-country heterogeneity”, with Veronica Vinciotti and Ernst C. Wit, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A, online first, 2025. doi: 10.1093/jrsssa/qnae131.

“Cultures as networks of cultural traits: A unifying framework for measuring culture and cultural distances”, with Roberto Rondinelli and Veronica Vinciotti, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A, 186(3), 264-293, 2023. doi: 10.1093/jrsssa/qnac007.

Vai alle pubblicazioni

Società scientifiche

Società Italiana di Economia

European Economic Association

American Economic Association

Analisi delle Reti Sociali

Italian Trade Study Group

European Trade Study Group

Comitati Editoriali

Le Principali aree di ricerca in ambito accademico riguardano:

International trade and migration; Network Analysis; Firms in global markets; Economic history of fascism.

RICERCA-ORCID

0000-0001-8245-3940

SSD

ECON-01/A

GSD

13/ECON-01

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