Michele Mancini

Welcome to my webpage!
I am Michele Mancini, Deputy Head of the Emerging Markets and World Trade Division at the Bank of Italy.

My research interests are international trade and global value chains. 

Google Scholar – My IDEAS – VoxEU profile – CV
Contact me: michele.mancini (at) bancaditalia.it

NEWS

I have coordinated with Maria Grazia Attinasi (ECB) theESCB Report on Geoeconomic Trade Fragmentationwith contributions from 40 ESCB economists. Check it out. A summary is also available on VoxEU.

Some background papers are already available:

• Fragmentation and the Future of Global Value Chains, with Conteduca, Romanini, Giglioli, Borin, Attinasi, Boeckelmann, Meunier, Occasional Papers, Bank of Italy, 932 [link]
• Inputs in Distress: Geoeconomic Fragmentation and Firms’ Sourcing, 2024, Occasional Papers, no. 861, Bank of Italy. with Lebastard, Panon, Borin, Caka, Cariola, Essers, Gentili, Linarello, Padellini, Requena and Timini [link] [SUERF] [ECB Blog] [VoxEU]
• Trade Fragmentation Unveiled: Five Facts on the Reconfiguration of Global, US, and EU trade, with Conteduca, Giglioli, Giordano, Panon, Occasional Papers, no. 881, Bank of Italy [link] [Journal version].
• European firms facing geopolitical risk: Evidence from recent Eurosystem surveys, 2024, with Balteanu, Bottone, Fernandez-Cerezo, Ioannou, Kutten, Morris [VoxEU]
  

WORKING PAPERS

• Economic Consequences of Trade and Global Value Chain Integration : A Measurement Perspective, with A. Borin and D. Taglioni, 2021, World Bank Policy Research WP, 9785. [VoxEU column] [link] [slides], forthcoming on World Bank EconRev.
  
• Sourcing governance and De-risking Strategies in Europe: a comparative study of Germany, Italy, and Spain, 2024, with Bottone, M., Boffelli, A., Pegoraro, D., Kutten, A., Balteanu, I., & Quintana, J. [WP version], R&R.

DATA and tools

• Global Value Chains and Value-Added Trade Analysis in Stata: icio.
  icio is a user-friendly Stata tool to compute measures of GVC participation and trade in value-added. Check it out here. Based on Belotti, Borin, Mancini, 2021, Stata Journal, 21(3) [slides].

• World Bank WITS Global Value Chains Database.
  A comprehensive database of up-to-date GVC participation measures.
  Overview – Visualizations – Bulk download
  based on Borin, Mancini, Taglioni, 2025, World Bank EconRev, forthcoming [link].

• Positioning in Global Value Chains: World Map and Indicators.
  A comprehensive database of up-to-date positioning measures in GVC.
  Check it out here. Based on Mancini et al., 2024, World Bank Economic Review.
  

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

• Economic Consequences of Trade and Global Value Chain Integration : A Measurement Perspective, 2025, with Borin, Taglioni, World Bank Economic Review, forthcoming.
• Trade Fragmentation Unveiled: Five Facts on the Reconfiguration of Global, US, and EU trade, 2025, with Conteduca, Giglioli, Giordano, Panon, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics.
• Trade and Economic Activity: Non-Linear Modelling and Forecasting
  Journal of Forecasting, 2024, with A. Borin and A. Gazzani.
• Positioning in Global Value Chains: World Map and Indicators. A new dataset available for GVC analyses [data]
  World Bank Economic Review, 2024, with P. Montalbano, S. Nenci, D. Vurchio.
• The real-time impact of the war on Russian imports: a synthetic control method approach. [WP]
  World Trade Review, 2024, with A. Borin, F. P. Conteduca.
• Sub-Saharan Africa’s Participation in Global Value Chains: 1995-2021.
  The World Economy, 2023. with A. Mattoo, D. Taglioni, D. Winkler.
• Trade Decoupling from Russia.
  International Economics, 2023, vol. 175. with A. Borin, F. P. Conteduca, E. Di Stefano, V. Gunnella, L. Panon [WP]
• Measuring what matters in value-added trade.
  Economic Systems Research, 2023. with A. Borin [WP]
• Reshoring and plant closures in Covid-19 times: Evidence from Italian MNEs.
  International Economics, 2022, vol. 172. with E. Di Stefano, G. Giovannetti, E. Marvasi and G. Vannelli.
• icio –   Economic Analysis with Inter-Country Input-Output tables.
  Stata Journal, 2021, 21(3). with F. Belotti and A. Borin. [slides]
• EU transfers and Euroscepticism: can’t buy me love?
  Economic Policy, 2021, vol. 36, with A. Borin and E. Macchi.
• FDI and firm performance: an empirical analysis on Italian firms. 
  Review of World Economics, 2016, 152(4), with A. Borin.
  

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