Oliver E. and Dolores Williamson Chair in the Economics of Organization | Associate Professor
Business & Public Policy
Expert in international trade and interest group politics
About
Matilde Bombardini holds the Oliver E. and Dolores Williamson Chair in the Economics of Organization and is an associate professor of Business and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She is also a Fellow in the Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics. She obtained her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005.
Her research focuses on the organization of interest groups, lobbying, and the link between corporate philanthropy and firms’ political engagement. Her work in international trade has focused on the links between a country’s skill distribution and comparative advantage.
Expertise and Research Interests
- International Trade
- Trade and Labor
- Interest Group Politics and Lobbying
- Corporate Charitable Giving
- Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi. Empirical Models of Lobbying. Annual Review of Economics, Forthcoming.
2019 - Matilde Bombardini and Bingjing Li. Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China. Journal of International Economics, Forthcoming.
2019 - Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Raymond Fisman and Francesco Trebbi. Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence. American Economic Review.
2019 - Matilde Bombardini, Gianluca Orefice and Maria Tito. Does Exporting Improve Matching? Evidence from French Employer-Employee Data. Journal of International Economics.
2019 - Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi. Is It Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process. American Economic Review.
2014 - Matilde Bombardini, Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato. Unobservable Skill Dispersion and Comparative Advantage. Journal of International Economics.
2014 - Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi. Risk Aversion and Expected Utility Theory: An Experiment with Large and Small Stakes. Journal of the European Economic Association.
2012 - Matilde Bombardini, Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato. Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows. American Economic Review.
2012 - Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi. Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?. Journal of International Economics.
2012 - Matilde Bombardini, Christopher Kurz and Peter Morrow. Ricardian Trade and The Impact of Domestic Competition on Export Performance. Canadian Journal of Economics.
2012 - Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi. Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress.. Journal of Public Economics.
2010 - Matilde Bombardini. Firm Heterogeneity and Lobby Participation. Journal of International Economics.
2008
- Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy
Matilde Bombardini, Marianne Bertrand, Ray Fisman, Brad Hackinen, and Francesco Trebbi (2020) - How the Breadth and Depth of Import Relationships Affect the Performance of Canadian Manufacturers
Matilde Bombardini, Keith Head, Maria Tito and Ruoying Wang (2020) - How Robust is the Skill-Dispersion-Complementarity Hypothesis?
Matilde Bombardini, Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato. (2013) - Gains From Distortions in Congested City Networks
Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi (2012)
At Haas since 2020
2023-present, Oliver E. and Dolores Williamson Chair, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
2020-present, Associate Professor, Business & Public Policy Group, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
2012-2020, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2005-2012, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2009-10, Visiting Assistant Professor, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
2017-18, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University
- Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Research Associate, Centre for Economic and Policy Research
- Fellow, Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program
- Co-Editor Journal of International Economics
- Italian
Killam Research Prize
2017
Bank of Canada Governor’s Award
2015
Harry G. Johnson Prize for the Best paper in the Canadian Journal of Economics
2013
CWEN Young Researcher Award
2012
Winner of the EIIT (Empirical Investigation in International Trade) Graduate Student Competition
2004
Fellowship, Department of Economics, MIT
2000 – 2002
Rotary Club Bologna “Best Graduate in Economics, Universita’ di Bologna 1998-1999”
2000
Dean’s honors list, UC Berkeley
1999
International trade and the efficiency of matching between firms and workers
SSHRC Insight Grant
2015 – 2018
Skill distribution as a source of productivity differences and international trade
SSHRC Insight Grant
2012 – 2015
Firm Heterogeneity and Ricardian Trade
Hampton Grant
2009 – 2010
Why are Lobbyists Paid?
SSHRC Standard Grant
2009 – 2012
The Industrial Organization of K Street: What Do Lobbyists Do? How Much are They Paid and Why?
Initiative on Global Markets (Chicago GSB)
2008 – 2009 (with Francesco Trebbi)
Risk aversion and expected utility theory: An experiment with large and small stakes
HSS Small Research Grant
2007 – 2008
Lobbying for Trade and the Industrial Organization of Special Interests
Initiative on Global Markets (Chicago GSB)
2007 – 2008 (with Francesco Trebbi)
Measuring Interest Groups’ Activity with an Application to Lobbying for Trade Policy
Initiative on Global Markets (Chicago GSB)
2006 – 2007 (with Francesco Trebbi)
- Haas School of Business study shows how donations shape nonprofit stances and policies, The Daily Californian, 10/06/2021
- Covid-19: One year on, BBC Business Weekly, 03/18/2021
- Massive new study traces how corporations use charitable donations to tilt regulations in their favor, The Washington Post, 01/17/2019
- Nonprofit Monkey in the Middle: Corporate Giving and Political Influence, Nonprofit Quarterly, 04/09/2018
- Charitable Giving by Corporations Is Also About Getting, a New Study Finds, The New York Times, 04/03/2018
- Courses, UGBA 118 International Trade (Spring 2021)