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Michela Redoano

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Telephone: +44 (0)24 765 23070

Fax: +44 (0)24 765 23032

Email: Michela dot Redoano at warwick dot ac dot uk

Room: S2.106

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Associate Professor

Michela is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, Research Fellow at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at University of Warwick and also at CES-Ifo (Munich). Michela holds a PhD and a MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and a BSc in Economics from the University of Genoa.

Advice and Feedback (A&F) hours

Thursdays 2:00-4:00 pm

During term time: just turn up in my office during these slots.

Outside term time: please email me.

Departmental Responsibilities

Coordinator of the Political Economy and Public Economics Research Group

Chair of the Wellbeing, Equality, Diversity and Gender Group ( WEDGG)

( WEDGG is in charge of the Departmental Athena Swan submission)

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Research Interests

  • Public Economics
  • Political Economy
  • Behavioural Economics

Current Teaching

EC9011: Economic Analysis: Microeconomics (Term 1)Link opens in a new window

EC9C2 - Topics in Empirical Political Economy (Term 1)Link opens in a new window

EC331 Research in Applied Economics

Publications and Papers Under Review

  • Does Data Disclosure Improve Local Government Performance? Evidence from Italian Municipalities (2024) (with Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli, Antonio Schiavone) QAPEC working paper 17;Link opens in a new window (under review).
  • The Effects of Social Capital on Government Performance and Turnover: Theory and Evidence from Italian Municipalities ( 2023) (joint with Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli , Emanuele Bracco, Federica Liberini, and Daniel Sgroi), TWERP working paper 1284 (under review).
  • The Transmission of Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy. (2024) (joint with Daniel Sgroi, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, , Francesco Porcelli, Emanuele Bracco). Ethical Approval granted. AEA RCT Registry Entry. TWERP working paper 1283, ( link).
  • Politics in the Facebook Era. Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections. (2022) (with Federica Liberini, Antonio Russo, Angel Cuevas and Ruben Cuevas), CESIfo working pape 8235 , (under review).
  • Was Brexit Triggered by the Old and Unhappy? Or by Financial Feelings? (2019) (joint with Federica Liberini, Andrew Oswald and Eugenio Proto), CEPR Discussion Paper 13439, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , Volume 161, 287-302. (available here)
  • Political Competition, Tax Salience and Accountability. Theory and some evidence from Italy. (2019) (joint with Emanuele Bracco and Francesco Porcelli), European Journal of Political Economy , Volume 58 , 138–163. (available here )
  • Happy Voters, (2017) (joint with Federica Liberini and Eugenio Proto), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 146, pp, 41–57. ( available here)
  • Intergovernamental grants as signal and the alignment effect: theory and evidence. (2015) (joint with Emanuele Bracco, Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 123, pp. 78-91. (available here)
  • Tax Competition among European Countries. Does the EU Matter? (2014), European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 34, 353–371. ( available here )
  • Does Centralisation Affect the Number and Size of Lobbies? (2010), Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 12(3), 407-435. (available here )
  • Do Countries Compete over Corporate Tax Rates ? (with Mike Devereux and Ben Lockwood), (2008), Journal of Public Economics,Volume 92(5), 1210-1235. (available here)
  • Horizontal and vertical Tax Competition: Theory and Some Evidence from the USA (with Mike Devereux and Ben Lockwood), (2007), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 91 ( 3-4), 451-479. (available here)
  • The Political Economy of Policy Centralisation: Direct versus Representative Democracy (with Kim Scharf), (2004), Journal of Public Economics, 88, 799-817. (available here)

Working papers and work in progress

    • "Facebook and Electoral Accountability: the case of Italian Municipalities during the first wave of Covid Pandemic" (with Eleonora Alabrese, Federica Liberini, Francesco Porcelli, and Antonio Russo) draft coming soon

    • Yardistick Competition in the Digital Age: Unveiling New Networks in Tax Competition (2022) (with Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli, Antonio Schiavone) draft coming soon.
    • Good Ad, Bad Ad. The Effect of Positive and Negative Political Content of Online Advertising" (2019) (with Federica Liberini and Antonio Russo). Ethical Approval granted. AEA RCT Registry entry. draft coming soon.
    • Electoral Performance Spillovers: Theory and Evidence, (2015) (joint with Emanuele Bracco and Francesco Porcelli) resting
    • "Incumbent Effects and Partisan Alignment in Local Elections: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis Using Italian Data" (2013) (joint with Emanuele Bracco and Francesco Porcelli), CESifo Working Paper No. 4061. (link)Link opens in a new window
    • Capital Account Liberalization and Corporate Taxes, (with Mike Devereux and Ben Lockwood), (2003) IMF Discussion Paper n 03/180. (linkLink opens in a new window)

    Other writings

    • Politics in the Facebook Era. Cage Advantage Magazine. forthcomingLink opens in a new window.
    • Brexit was a cry of financial pain and not the influence of the old. in CAGE Poilicy Report. "Which way now? Economic policy after a decade of upheaval", SMF, February 2019.
    • Politics in the Facebook Era. How reading political ads on Facebook affects our voting behaviour
      (…and helped Trump to win the Presidential elections) VoxEU, November 2018, here.
    • Brexit – a cry of financial pain, not the influence of the old, (with Federica Liberini, Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto) , VOX-EU , 17 October 2017, here.
    • Brexit: financial unsatisfaction or intergenerational conflict? (with Federica Liberini, Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto) , UK in a Changing Europe, 23 October 2017 here
    • Happy voters Briefing. Is the economy stupid?. Social Market Foundation, 31 May 2017, here.
    • Local government areas that are controlled by the same party as national governments receive larger grants and have lower taxes. (with Emanuele Bracco and Francesco Porcelli) EUROPP Blog (2013), here.
    • Happiness and voting, ( with Federica Liberini, Eugenio Proto), VOX-EU , 15 November 2013, here.

    • “David Cameron should pay attention to the “Happiness” of British citizens; it will help him win the next general election”, with Federica Liberini, Eugenio Proto) LSE British Politics and Policy, 9 October 2013, here.