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Maurizio Conti
Maurizio Conti
Research Fellow
University of Genoa
mconti@economia.unige.it External Homepage CV

Maurizio Conti is Full Professor in Economic Policy at the Department of Economics, University of Genova.

He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Essex in 2004 as well as an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick in 2000.

His main research interests are in labour economics (where he has mostly done work on the effects of labour market institutions on firms’ behaviour), industrial economics (where he has focused on the economics of network industries), regional economics and policy evaluation.
His research has been published in various international journals including Journal of Public Economics; European Economic Review; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Labour Economics; Journal of Population Economics; Regional Science and Urban Economics and Journal of Law and Economics.

Maurizio Conti joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2022.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18781
When Universities Matter: Academic Quality, Market Access, and Urban Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe
Nikolaos Benos, Maurizio Conti, Michail Papazoglou, Stamatis Tsoumaris
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16996
Sailing Through History: The Legacy of Medieval Sea Trade On Migrant Perception and Extreme Right Voting
Anna Bottasso, Gianluca Cerruti, Maurizio Conti, Marta Santagata
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2026, 39:22
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16572
High-Speed Railways and Firms Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Antonella Rita Ferrara, Simone Robbiano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16262
Labor Market Regulation and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand
Anna Bottasso, Massimiliano Bratti, Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
revised version published as 'Labor Market Regulations and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, 105292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15898
On the Emergence of Cooperative Industrial and Labor Relations
Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Andrea Ricci, Sergio Scicchitano, Giovanni Sulis
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (3), 568 - 590
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15415
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Labour Supply and Other Uses of Time
Anna Bottasso, Gianluca Cerruti, Maurizio Conti, Elena G. F. Stancanelli
published in: Economia Politica, 2026, 43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12773
Employment Protection and Firm-Provided Training: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform
Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Markets' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12008
Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Physical Capital Investment: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence from Italy
Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
revised version published as 'A Model of Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Capital Investment' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101936
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11339
Employment Protection, Temporary Contracts and Firm-Provided Training: Evidence from Italy
Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Market' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9740
Firm Dynamics and Employment Protection: Evidence from Sectoral Data
Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 78, 35-53
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