Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto

CREI, UPF and BSE

PhD, Harvard University

Research interests

  • Political Economy
  • International Trade
  • Urban Economics
  • Applied Microeconomics
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Teaching at the Barcelona School of Economics

Giacomo Ponzetto is a senior researcher at CREI and an affiliated professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the BSE, as well as a research affiliate of CEPR and an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. His research lies at the intersection of Political Economy and International and Regional Economics. He has written on political and legal institutions, on the political economy of trade policy, on federalism and political centralization, and on entrepreneurship and the spatial distribution of economic activity. His research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.

In 2016, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project, “Citizens, Institutions and Globalization.”

Awards, Grants, and Honors

Working Papers

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Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation

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BSE Working Paper 1467
November 2024
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Joseph Gyourko,
Leonardo D’Amico, Edward L. Glaeser, William Kerr and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Do Incompetent Politicians Breed Populist Voters? Evidence from Italian Municipalities

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BSE Working Paper 1388
March 2023
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Vincenzo Mollisi,
Federico Boffa and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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A Theory of Economic Unions

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BSE Working Paper 1110
September 2019
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Jaume Ventura,
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto and Gino Gancia
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The Political Economy of Transportation Investment

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BSE Working Paper 1057
October 2018
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Edward L. Glaeser and
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Fundamental Errors in the Voting Booth

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BSE Working Paper 985
September 2017
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Edward L. Glaeser and
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Securing Property Rights

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BSE Working Paper 930
September 2016
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A. Patrick Behrer,
Edward L. Glaeser, Andrei Shleifer and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Globalization and Political Structure

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BSE Working Paper 878
February 2016
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Jaume Ventura,
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto and Gino Gancia
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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions

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BSE Working Paper 873
February 2016
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Nava Ashraf,
Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Urban Networks: Spreading the Flow of Goods, People, and Ideas

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BSE Working Paper 841
September 2015
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Yimei Zou, Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Contract Innovation and Legal Evolution under Imperfect Enforcement

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BSE Working Paper 836
September 2015
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Nicola Gennaioli and
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Optimally Vague Contracts and the Law

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BSE Working Paper 747
September 2015
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Nicola Gennaioli and
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Intellectual Property Rights and Efficient Firm Organization

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BSE Working Paper 668
September 2015
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Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Shrouded Costs of Government: Political Economy of State and Local Public Pensions Data

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BSE Working Paper 660
September 2015
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Edward L. Glaeser and
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Should Different People Have Different Governments?

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BSE Working Paper 656
September 2015
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Federico Boffa,
Amedeo Piolatto and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth

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BSE Working Paper 612
September 2015
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Ugo Troiano and
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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The Dracula Effect: Voter Information and Trade Policy

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BSE Working Paper 596
September 2015
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Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
Maria Petrova and Ruben Enikolopov
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Asymmetric Information and Trade Policy

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BSE Working Paper 514
September 2015
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Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
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The Varieties of Regional Change

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BSE Working Paper 472
September 2015
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Edward L. Glaeser,
Kristina Tobio and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto

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Jaume Ventura, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, Gino Gancia,
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A. Patrick Behrer, Edward L. Glaeser, Andrei Shleifer, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Jaume Ventura, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, Gino Gancia,
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Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Federico Boffa, Amedeo Piolatto, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Nava Ashraf, Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Yimei Zou, Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Yimei Zou, Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Edward L. Glaeser, Kristina Tobio, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,
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Edward L. Glaeser, William Kerr, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto,

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