

Is it Whom You Know or What You Know An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process. "Does Population Control Lead to Better Child Quality? Evidence from China's One-Child Policy Enforcement." (With Hongliang Zhang), Journal of Comparative Economics, May 2017, 45(2):246-260. Bertrand, Marianne, Matilde Bombardini, and Francesco Trebbi. "Export Expansion, Skill Acquisition and Industry Specialization: Evidence from China." Journal of International Economics, September 2018, 114:346-361. "Trade, Pollution, and Mortality in China." (With Matilde Bombardini), Journal of International Economics, July 2020, 125:103321. "Grain Exports and the Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961: County-Level Evidence." (With Hiroyuki Kasahara), Journal of Development Economics, September 2020, 146:102513 Is skill dispersion a source of comparative advantage In this paper we use microdata from the. Morrow), Journal of International Economics, July 2021, 131:103453 Matilde Bombardini, Giovanni Gallipoli, German Pupato. "Processing Trade and Costs of Incomplete Liberalization: The Case of China." (With Loren Brandt and Peter M. "Migration, Transportation Infrastructure, and Spatial Transmission of COVID-19 in China." (With Lin Ma), Journal of Urban Economics: Insights, January 2022, 127:103351.

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Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics. "Migration Costs, Sorting, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap." (With Qingen Gai, Naijia Guo, Qinghua Shi, and Xiaodong Zhu), Econometrica, Revise and Resubmit. Matilde Bombardini is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver School of Economics. Campante and Davin Chor) Journal of the European Economic Association, Revise and Resubmit Research Investing in Influence: Investors, portfolio firms, and political giving (with Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Francesco Trebbi, and Eyub Yegen). "The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdowns." (With Filipe R. Politicians Expect the China Shock?" (With Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi), American Economic Review, Conditionally Accepted. "Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy." (With Davin Chor) Secondary: Environmental Economics, Development Economics Primary: International Trade, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
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in Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2011ī.Soc.Sc (First Class Honors) in Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2009 CV pdf Contacts - Office 587 Faculty Building Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley 2220 Piedmont Ave. in Economics, The University of British Columbia 2016 We also find evidence that lobbyists that have issue expertise earn a premium, but we uncover that such a premium for lobbyists that have connections to many politicians and Members of Congress is considerably larger.Ph.D. More importantly, lobbyists appear to systematically switch issues as the politicians they were previously connected to switch committee assignments, hence following people they know rather than sticking to issues. In particular, we find that whom lobbyists are connected to (through political campaign donations) directly affects what they work on. Instead, maintaining connections to politicians appears central to what lobbyists do. She is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) in the Institutions, Organisations & Growth Program since June 2007 and a Research. In particular, she has studied the link between.
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We exploit multiple sources of data covering the period 1999 to 2008, including: federal lobbying registration from the Senate Office of Public Records, Federal Election Commission reports, committee and subcommittee assignments for the 106th to 110th Congresses, and background information on individual lobbyists.Ī pure issue expertise view of lobbying does not fit the data well. Matilde Bombardini is an Italian economist, who is a Professor of Economics of International Trade at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver. Economist Matilde Bombardinis research covers various aspects of international trade and political economy. This paper combines a descriptive analysis with more targeted testing to get inside the black box of the lobbying process and inform our understanding of the relative importance of these two views of lobbying. Others believe that lobbyists mainly provide the firms and other special interests they represent with access to politicians in their “circle of influence” and that this access is the be-all and end-all of how lobbyists affect the lawmaking process. What do lobbyists do? Some believe that lobbyists’ main role is to provide issue-specific information and expertise to congressmen to help guide the law-making process.
