Filippo Biondi
Former Research Assistant,
Filippo, an Italian citizen, works at Bruegel as a Research Assistant in the area of innovation and competition policy.
Before joining Bruegel, he worked as a Trainee and then Consultant in the Research Division of the European Central Bank, within the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet).
Filippo holds a BSc and MSc degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, with an exchange program at Dartmouth College.
His master thesis focused on firms' productivity distributions. In particular, on the development of a novel statistical decomposition of aggregate productivity dynamics in order to assess the heterogeneous contributions of different groups of firms.
Filippo’s research interests include international economics and trade, firms and competitiveness, industrial and competition policy.
He is fluent in Italian and English, and has basic knowledge of French.
Featured work
Promoting intra-regional trade in the south of the Mediterranean
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Remaking Europe: the new manufacturing as an engine for growth
Europe needs to know how it can realise the potential for industrial rejuvenation. How well are European firms responding to the new opportunities for
Brexit and the future of the Irish border
The future of the Irish land border has been thrown into uncertainty by Brexit. The UK's confirmation that it will leave the EU's single market and cu
The Mexican automotive industry and Trump’s USA
Trade with Mexico is a controversial topic for the new US administration. And the automotive sector is emblematic of Trump’s promise to bring manufact