Davide Rigo

I am an Assistant Professor at Birmingham Business School (Department of Management), a Visiting Fellow at LSE (Department of Geography and Environment) and a Research Affiliate of the CESifo Network.

I am an applied economist working on technological change, innovation and international economics, with a focus on firms.

Research. I study how digital technologies and remote work impact labour markets and firm performance, how innovation and digitalisation shape inequalities across firms and places, and how trade agreements affect firms’ internationalisation and welfare. My work combines large-scale administrative microdata and unstructured big data, with quantitative methods for causal inference.

Impact. My research has supported advisory work with the UK government (Department for Business and Trade) and international organisations, including the OECD, the World Bank Group and UNCTAD. I have also provided expert evidence to the UK House of Lords.

Vita. Previously, I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and a Fellow in Economic Geography at LSE. I received my PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, and was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. I have secured over £235,000 as principal investigator from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, STICERD and LSE.

Contact. To get in touch, please email me at d.rigo@bham.ac.uk