Gianluca Santoni

Biographic Data

ID	4164024
NAME	Gianluca Santoni
GIVEN NAMES	Gianluca
FAMILY NAME	Santoni
SIGNATURE	SANTONI G
AFFILIATIONS	Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales
ORCID	0000-0002-8853-0051
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	18
TOTAL CITATIONS	3
WORKS AS AUTHOR	18
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	1

Exports, relational specificity and new investment locations
Open AccessGiorgia Giovannetti, Gianluca Santoni et al.ARTICLEEuropean Economic Review2026
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports
Open AccessGianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2025Cited by: 1References: 6
How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose an empirical framework allowing to disentangle the role of migration networks that operate at a bilateral level from that of productivity channels (knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity) that operate at the aggregate level. We find evidence supporting both, at the extensive as well as at the intensive margin. The results are robust to using various IV strategies…
Trade and Infrastructure Integration in Africa
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Mathilde Lebrand et al.PREPRINTSSRN Electronic Journal2024
Trade and Infrastructure Integration in Africa
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Mathilde Lebrand et al.PREPRINTSSRN Electronic Journal2023
Automation, Global Value Chains and Functional Specialization
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Ariell Reshef et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2023
Are your labor shares set in Beijing? The view through the lens of global value chains
Open AccessAriell Reshef, Gianluca SantoniARTICLEEuropean Economic Review2023
The Economic Impact of Deepening Trade Agreements
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Nadia Rocha et al.ARTICLEThe World Bank Economic Review2023
This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, conditional on their level of ambition. It clusters 278 agreements, encompassing 910 provisions over 18 policy areas and estimates the trade elasticity for the different clusters. These elasticities are used in a series of general-equilibrium counterfactual situations for endowment economies, revealing that deepening existing agreements (the intensive margin of regional in…
The Economic Impact of Deepening Trade Agreements
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Nadia Rocha et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2022
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity
Open AccessGianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2022
Are Your Labor Shares Set in Beijing? The View Through the Lens of Global Value Chains
Open AccessAriell Reshef, Gianluca SantoniARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2022
The effect of local taxes on firm performance
Open AccessFederico Belotti, Edoardo Di Porto et al.ARTICLEJournal of Regional Science2021
This paper investigates the effect of local property tax for businesses on firm performance by using a panel of Italian manufacturing firms. To identify this effect, we implement a pairwise spatial‐differenced estimator and exploit the exogenous variation in local property tax rates caused by the political alignment of local and central governments. We find that business property taxation has a sizeable negative impact on equipment, the more vola…
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity
Open AccessGianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2021
L’industrie française est-elle tributaire de la Chine
Ariell Reshef, Isabelle Bensidoun et al.ARTICLE2021
GVCs and the Endogenous Geography of RTAs
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Gianluca SantoniARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2018
Agglomeration economies and firm-level labor misallocation
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Gianluca SantoniARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2018Cited by: 2References: 5
A large portion of the productivity differentials among locations is related to density. Firms located in denser areas are more productive (Combes et al., 2012a, Econometrica, 80: 2543–2594). We show in this article that resource misallocation is lower in denser areas and argue that misallocation plays an important role in explaining the observed productivity premium of large cities. Using a methodology proposed by Petrin and Sivadasan (2013, Rev…
Value Added in Motion
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Jean Fouré et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2017
Value Added in Motion
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Gianluca SantoniARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2017
Human-mobility networks, country income, and labor productivity
Open AccessGiorgio Fagiolo, Gianluca SantoniARTICLENetwork Science2015References: 11
This paper asks whether the level of integration of world countries in the international network of temporary human mobility can explain differences in their per-capita income and labor productivity. We disentangle the role played by global country centrality in the network from traditional openness measures, which only account for local, nearest-neighbor linkages through which ideas and knowledge can flow. Using 1995-2010 data, we show that glob…

Human-mobility networks, country income, and labor productivity
Open AccessGiorgio Fagiolo, Gianluca SantoniARTICLENetwork Science2015References: 11
This paper asks whether the level of integration of world countries in the international network of temporary human mobility can explain differences in their per-capita income and labor productivity. We disentangle the role played by global country centrality in the network from traditional openness measures, which only account for local, nearest-neighbor linkages through which ideas and knowledge can flow. Using 1995-2010 data, we show that glob…
Value Added in Motion
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Jean Fouré et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2017
Value Added in Motion
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Gianluca SantoniARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2017
GVCs and the Endogenous Geography of RTAs
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Gianluca SantoniARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2018
Agglomeration economies and firm-level labor misallocation
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Gianluca SantoniARTICLEJournal of Economic Geography2018Cited by: 2References: 5
A large portion of the productivity differentials among locations is related to density. Firms located in denser areas are more productive (Combes et al., 2012a, Econometrica, 80: 2543–2594). We show in this article that resource misallocation is lower in denser areas and argue that misallocation plays an important role in explaining the observed productivity premium of large cities. Using a methodology proposed by Petrin and Sivadasan (2013, Rev…
The effect of local taxes on firm performance
Open AccessFederico Belotti, Edoardo Di Porto et al.ARTICLEJournal of Regional Science2021
This paper investigates the effect of local property tax for businesses on firm performance by using a panel of Italian manufacturing firms. To identify this effect, we implement a pairwise spatial‐differenced estimator and exploit the exogenous variation in local property tax rates caused by the political alignment of local and central governments. We find that business property taxation has a sizeable negative impact on equipment, the more vola…
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity
Open AccessGianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2021
L’industrie française est-elle tributaire de la Chine
Ariell Reshef, Isabelle Bensidoun et al.ARTICLE2021
The Economic Impact of Deepening Trade Agreements
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Nadia Rocha et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2022
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity
Open AccessGianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2022
Are Your Labor Shares Set in Beijing? The View Through the Lens of Global Value Chains
Open AccessAriell Reshef, Gianluca SantoniARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2022
Trade and Infrastructure Integration in Africa
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Mathilde Lebrand et al.PREPRINTSSRN Electronic Journal2023
Automation, Global Value Chains and Functional Specialization
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Ariell Reshef et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2023
Are your labor shares set in Beijing? The view through the lens of global value chains
Open AccessAriell Reshef, Gianluca SantoniARTICLEEuropean Economic Review2023
The Economic Impact of Deepening Trade Agreements
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Nadia Rocha et al.ARTICLEThe World Bank Economic Review2023
This paper explores the economic impacts of preferential trade agreements, conditional on their level of ambition. It clusters 278 agreements, encompassing 910 provisions over 18 policy areas and estimates the trade elasticity for the different clusters. These elasticities are used in a series of general-equilibrium counterfactual situations for endowment economies, revealing that deepening existing agreements (the intensive margin of regional in…
Trade and Infrastructure Integration in Africa
Open AccessLionel Fontagné, Mathilde Lebrand et al.PREPRINTSSRN Electronic Journal2024
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports
Open AccessGianluca Orefice, Hillel Rapoport et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2025Cited by: 1References: 6
How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose an empirical framework allowing to disentangle the role of migration networks that operate at a bilateral level from that of productivity channels (knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity) that operate at the aggregate level. We find evidence supporting both, at the extensive as well as at the intensive margin. The results are robust to using various IV strategies…
Exports, relational specificity and new investment locations
Open AccessGiorgia Giovannetti, Gianluca Santoni et al.ARTICLEEuropean Economic Review2026