Matilde Bombardini

Bombardini began her undergraduate studies in the field of Economics at Università di Bologna and graduated as Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics with a magna cum laude in the year 2000. During her time as an undergraduate student, she went for an exchange program to The University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in the year 1998-1999 where she discovered her interest in empirical research surrounding trade. In 2004, she was the winner of the EIIT (Empirical Investigation in International Trade) Graduate Student Competition. In September 2005, she completed her PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Upon completing her PhD, she was appointed as assistant professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and has been in UBC ever since. Although, she was also the visiting assistant professor for a year at The Booth School of Business at University of Chicago from August 2009 to June 2010. She was promoted to associate professor at UBC in July 2013 and was also a visiting associate professor for a year at Stanford University from August 2017 to July 2018.

After earning her PhD in 2005, she was appointed as an assistant professor at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. In July 2013, she was promoted to associate professor at The University of British Columbia. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of International Economics. Bombardini is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an Advisory Committee Member for the Empirical Investigations in International Trade (EIIT) conference.

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Bombardini has published numerous papers, receiving 1,224 citations as of 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zeX6jEMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao|title=Matilde Bombardini|last=|first=|date=|website=Google Scholar Citations|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-11-27}}

• {{Cite journal|date=July 1, 2008 |title=Firm heterogeneity and lobby participation|journal=Journal of International Economics|volume=75|issue=2|pages=329–348|doi=10.1016/j.jinteco.2008.03.003|issn=0022-1996|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde}}
• {{Cite journal|date=August 1, 2011 |title=Votes or money? Theory and evidence from the US Congress|journal=Journal of Public Economics|volume=95|issue=7|pages=587–611|doi=10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.11.018|issn=0047-2727|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde|last2=Trebbi|first2=Francesco|url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w13672.pdf}}, with Francesco Trebbi
• {{Cite journal|date=2012|title=Ricardian trade and the impact of domestic competition on export performance|journal=Canadian Journal of Economics|language=en|volume=45|issue=2|pages=585–612|doi=10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01715.x|issn=1540-5982|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde|last2=Kurz|first2=Christopher J.|last3=Morrow|first3=Peter M.|s2cid=16649950}}, with Christopher J. Kurz and Peter M. Morrow
• {{Cite journal|date=May 2012|title=Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows|journal=American Economic Review|language=en|volume=102|issue=5|pages=2327–2348|doi=10.1257/aer.102.5.2327|issn=0002-8282|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde|last2=Gallipoli|first2=Giovanni|last3=Pupato|first3=Germán|s2cid=12427435}}, with Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato
• {{Cite journal|date=May 1, 2012 |title=Competition and political organization: Together or alone in lobbying for trade policy?|journal=Journal of International Economics|series=Symposium on the Global Dimensions of the Financial Crisis|volume=87|issue=1|pages=18–26|doi=10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.11.011|issn=0022-1996|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde|last2=Trebbi|first2=Francesco|url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w14771.pdf}}, with Francesco Trebbi
• {{Cite journal|date=December 1, 2012 |title=Risk Aversion and Expected Utility Theory: An Experiment with Large and Small Stakes|url=https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article/10/6/1348/2299463|journal=Journal of the European Economic Association|language=en|volume=10|issue=6|pages=1348–1399|doi=10.1111/j.1542-4774.2012.01086.x|issn=1542-4766|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde|last2=Trebbi|first2=Francesco}}, with Francesco Trebbi
• {{Cite journal|date=March 1, 2014 |title=Unobservable skill dispersion and comparative advantage|journal=Journal of International Economics|volume=92|issue=2|pages=317–329|doi=10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.11.005|issn=0022-1996|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde|last2=Gallipoli|first2=Giovanni|last3=Pupato|first3=Germán}}, with Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato
• {{Cite journal|date=December 2014|title=Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process|journal=American Economic Review|language=en|volume=104|issue=12|pages=3885–3920|doi=10.1257/aer.104.12.3885|issn=0002-8282|last1=Bertrand|first1=Marianne|last2=Bombardini|first2=Matilde|last3=Trebbi|first3=Francesco}}, with Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi
• {{Cite journal|first3=Maria|date=May 2015|title=Does Exporting Improve Matching? Evidence from French Employer-Employee Data|location=Cambridge, MA|doi=10.3386/w21225|doi-access=free}}, with Gianluca Orefice and Maria Tito
• {{Cite journal|date=November 2016|title=Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China|location=Cambridge, MA|doi=10.3386/w22804|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde|last2=Li|first2=Bingjing|doi-access=free}}, with Bingjing Li
• {{Cite journal|date=March 2018|title=Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence|location=Cambridge, MA|doi=10.3386/w24451|last1=Bertrand|first1=Marianne|last2=Bombardini|first2=Matilde|last3=Fisman|first3=Raymond|last4=Trebbi|first4=Francesco|doi-access=free}}, with Matilde Bombardini, Raymond Fisman, and Francesco Trebbi
• {{Cite journal|date=September 2019|title=Empirical Models of Lobbying|location=Cambridge, MA|doi=10.3386/w26287|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde|last2=Trebbi|first2=Francesco|s2cid=202545913|doi-access=free}}, with Francesco Trebbi

Her current research focus is simultaneously working on three different projects concerning Political Economy and International Trade. Her first project explores the association between pollution and trade in China.{{Cite journal|last1=Bombardini|first1=Matilde|last2=Li|first2=Bingjing|date=November 2016|title=Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China|location=Cambridge, MA|doi=10.3386/w22804|doi-access=free}} Together with Francesco Trebbi and a team of research assistants, her second project explores the subject of financial regulation, especially the ways in which the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform of 2010 is implemented. Her third project focuses on the influence of trade and the link between workers and firms.{{Cite journal|last1=Bertrand|first1=Marianne|last2=Bombardini|first2=Matilde|last3=Fisman|first3=Raymond|last4=Hackinen|first4=Bradley|last5=Trebbi|first5=Francesco|date=December 2018|title=Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy|location=Cambridge, MA|doi=10.3386/w25329|s2cid=54023927|doi-access=free}}

• Canadian Women Economists Network Award, for her work in the intersection of political economy and international trade. (2012, won){{Cite web|url=https://cwec-cfec.ca/cwen-rfe-young-researcher-award-2012/|title=CWEN/RFÉ Young Researcher Award 2012 CWEC/CFEC|website=cwec-cfec.ca|access-date=2019-11-27}}
• Harry G. Johnson Prize for best paper in the Canadian Journal of Economics (2013, won)
• Bank of Canada Governor's Award (2015, won){{Cite web|url=https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2015/03/bank-canada-recipient-2015-governor-award/|title=Bank of Canada Announces Recipient of 2015 Governor's Award|website=www.bankofcanada.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-27}}
• Killam Research Prize in the Junior Category for Arts and Humanities at the University of British Columbia, for her contribution in Political Economy and International Trade. (2017, won){{Cite web|url=https://economics.ubc.ca/uncategorized/2017/matilde-bombardini-wins-prestigious-killam-research-prize/#.Xdu-F-hKg2x|title=Matilde Bombardini Wins Prestigious Killam Research Prize {{!}} Vancouver School of Economics|website=economics.ubc.ca|access-date=2019-11-27}}

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