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Professor Filippo di Mauro, PhD

Current Position

since 1/19

Economist

Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) - Member of the Leibniz Association

since 01/12

Chairman

The Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet)

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Research Interests
  • productivity reallocation
  • resource reallocation

Filippo di Mauro serves at IWH as chairman of CompNet. His present research focuses on productivity and resource reallocation using firm level data and modelling global linkages, including global value chains.

Filippo di Mauro is a consultant of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore. He is also the Coordinator of the Productivity Research Network (PRN), based at NUS Singapore, specialising on productivity research for the Asia-Pacific region.

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Publications

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European Firm Concentration and Aggregate Productivity

Tommaso Bighelli Filippo di Mauro Marc Melitz Matthias Mertens

in: Journal of the European Economic Association, No. 2, 2023

Abstract

This paper derives a European Herfindahl–Hirschman concentration index from 15 micro-aggregated country datasets. In the last decade, European concentration rose due to a reallocation of economic activity toward large and concentrated industries. Over the same period, productivity gains from an increasing allocative efficiency of the European market accounted for 50% of European productivity growth while markups stayed constant. Using country-industry variation, we show that changes in concentration are positively associated with changes in productivity and allocative efficiency. This holds across most sectors and countries and supports the notion that rising concentration in Europe reflects a more efficient market environment rather than weak competition and rising market power.

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