Assoc. Prof. Matilde Bombardini

Political Economy and International Trade

Matilde Bombardini’s current research focuses on three projects. One project estimates the costs and benefits of Buy American provisions that limit the amount of foreign goods in US federal public procurements using a spatial quantitative trade model and reduced form analysis. The other project focuses on the political economy implications of institutional investors increasing concentration in US equity markets. The third explores the different sources of voters attitudes towards green policies in the US.
Ms. Bomardini’s research focuses on political economy and international trade. She has studied the organization of interest groups and the behaviour of lobbyists in the US, and has linked the pattern of international trade to the inequality of education outcomes within countries, as well as the effect of international trade on pollution and infant mortality in China and the use of corporate philanthropy as a political tool.
Matilde Bombardini is Associate Professor in the Business and Public Policy group at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, a fellow of the National Bureau for Economic Research, a fellow of the Institutions, Organizations and Growth group at the Becker Friedman Institute and co-editor of the Journal of International Economics. Ms. Bombardini is a native of Italy where she obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Bologna. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. She is the recipient of the 2015 Bank of Canada Governor’s Award, the 2017 Killam Research Prize, the 2012 Young Researcher Prize from the Canadian Women Economists Network/Réseau de Femmes Économistes (CWEN/RFÉ) and the 2012 Harry Johnson Prize for best paper in the Canadian Journal of Economics.