Publications

• Rules of Origins Relaxation and Regional Supply Chains: Evidence from Europe
  Pamela Bombarda, Elisa Gamberoni, and Irene Iodice
  Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming).
  [Uses NLP to codify rules of origin requirements and identify input restrictions]
  Working-paper version

• Heterogeneous Trade Elasticity and Managerial Skills
  Maria Bas, Lionel Fontagné, Irene Iodice, and Gianluca Orefice (2025)
  Journal of International Economics.
  Working-paper version

• Skill Upgrading and Wage Gap: A Decomposition Analysis for Italian Manufacturing Firms
  Irene Iodice and Chiara Tomasi (2016)
  Economia Politica.
  Working-paper version

Working Papers

• Transparency as Trade Policy: The Value of Advance Notifications in Technical Regulations
  Irene Iodice
  R&R — Journal of International Economics
  [Employs text-as-data techniques to retrieve regulatory notification timelines]
  Working-paper version

  • Winner of the XV Doctoral Prize "Prof. Fabio Gobbo"
  • Winner of the XXI Doctoral Prize from the Italian Economic Society

• Protection or Protectionism: The Effect of Technical Regulations on Inputs Sourcing
  Irene Iodice and Camille Reverdy
  [Uses ML classifiers to complete Non-Tariff Measures datasets and NLP to assess regulatory similarity]
  Working-paper version

  • Winner of 15th Young Economist Award @FIW, Research Centre for International Economics. Award announcement

• Tariff Cuts, Uncertainty Reduction, and the Force of Many: The Impact of Plurilateral Agreements
  Lasha Chochua and Irene Iodice
  Working‑paper version

Ongoing Research

• Global Value Chains Rewired: The Role of the ITA in Shaping Firm‑Level Linkages in ICT
  Lasha Chochua, Irene Iodice, and Daria Taglioni

• The Granular Origins of Aggregate Product Diversification
  Lionel Fontagné, Irene Iodice, and Angelo Secchi

Policy Briefs & Outreach

• Prinzipien für eine europäische Industrie‑ und Handelspolitik für das geoökonomische Zeitalter
  Julian Hinz, Irene Iodice, and Moritz Schularick (2025)
  Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik. Published version