Michela Giorcelli
Assistant Professor of Economics
at University of California – Los Angeles (USA)
Main Topics:
- Innovation
- Productivity
- Applied Economics
- Economic History
Her research interests involve firm productivity and adoption of managerial practices, technology transfer and innovation, and intellectual property rights protection. She is a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Professional Profile:
Michela Giorcelli is an applied microeconomist, mainly interested in the determinants on productivity and innovation. Giorcelli is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of California-Los Angeles.
She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau for Economic Research.
Michela Giorcelli’s research focuses on firm productivity and adoption of managerial practices, technology transfer and innovation, and intellectual property rights protection.
Giorcelli has a Ph.D. from Stanford University (2016). Before joining Stanford, Prof. Giorcelli earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University (with distinction), a MSc from Collegio Carlo Alberto in Torino (with distinction) and a BA in Economics (summa cum laude and dignity of print) from the University of Torino.
Selected Works:
- Bianchi, Nicola, and Michela Giorcelli. 2020. “Scientific Education and Innovation: From Technical Diplomas to University STEM Degrees,” Journal of European Economic Association, 18(5): 2608-46.
- Bianchi, Nicola, and Michela Giorcelli. 2021. “Dynamic and Spillover Effects of Management Interventions,” Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
- Bianchi, Nicola, and Michela Giorcelli. 2021. “Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development,” Working Paper.
- Giorcelli, Michela. 2019. “The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfers,” American Economic Review, 109(5): 121-52 [lead article].
- Giorcelli, Michela, and Petra Moser. 2020. “Copyright and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Opera in the Napoleonic Age,” Journal of Political Economy, 128(11): 4163-210.
- Giorcelli, Michela, Nicola Lacetera, and Astrid Marinoni. “Does Scientific Progress Affect Cultural Changes? A Digital Text Analysis,” NBER Working Paper 25429.
- Giorcelli, Michela, and Bo Li. 2021. “Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance,” NBER Working Paper 29455.
- Giorcelli, Michela. 2021. “Professionals and Productivity: the Diffusion of Soft Technologies during and after WWII,” under contract with Princeton University Press.
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