Job Market Paper

• Irene Iodice (2020), Transparency as Trade Policy: Evidence from Notification Timing in TBTs.



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

This paper quantifies the benefits of timely WTO notification of technical barriers to trade (TBTs). Using a new dataset linking TBT timelines to French firm-level exports, I show that advance notice halves the decline in export participation and prevents small-firm exits. Timely disclosure spares firms a shock equivalent to a one-year tariff four times larger than the TBT’s trade cost. A model with firm heterogeneity and policy uncertainty explains how early notification reduces compliance-cost uncertainty and discourages exit. These findings highlight transparency as a key factor in mitigating trade disruptions from new regulations.

Publications

• Pamela Bombarda, Elisa Gamberoni and Irene Iodice. Rules of Origins Relaxation and Regional Supply Chains: Evidence from Europe. Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). A WP version here.

• Maria Bas, Lionel Fontagné, Irene Iodice and Gianluca Orefice (2025). Heterogeneous Trade Elasticity and Managerial Skills; Journal of International Economics. A WP version here.

• Irene Iodice and Chiara Tomasi (2016). Skill upgrading and wage gap: a decomposition analysis for Italian manufacturing firms; Economia Politica. A WP version here.

Ongoing research

• Irene Iodice and Camille Reverdy. Protection or Protectionism: The Effect of Technical Regulations on Inputs Sourcing



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

• Lasha Chochua and Irene Iodice. "Tariff Cuts, Uncertainty Reduction, and the Force of Many: The Impact of Plurilateral Agreements"

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

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