Giordano Mion

Giordano Mion is Professor of Economics at the ESSEC Business School in Paris. He is also affiliated with the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute (CESifo), the National Institute of Social and Economic Research (NIESR) and the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) at the University of Nottingham. The main focus of his research is on international trade (productivity, firm heterogeneity, and gains from trade), on regional economics (agglomeration, externalities, and local institutions) and on labour economics (sorting, matching, and managers). Past research awards include the Highly Cited Authors Award from the Journal of Urban Economics and the Mundell Prize form the Canadian Journal of Economics. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Geography as well as of Regional Science and Urban Economics. He earned his PhD in Economics at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, has been a post-doc and FNRS Fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Belgium and previously taught at the LSE, the University of Surrey and the University of Sussex.