Associate Professor (L. 240)
Department of Management and Production Engineering (DIGEP)
Profile
Research interests
Curriculum
Scientific branch
(Area 0013 - Economic and statistical sciences)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Other research or teaching roles outside Politecnico
- Visiting Researcher, presso Universidad de Deusto (1/6/2014-18/7/2014)
- Dottorando, presso Università degli Studi di TRENTO (1/10/2013-31/1/2014)
- Dottorando, presso Università degli Studi di TRENTO (20/10/2012-14/6/2013)
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- NATIONAL PHD IN PEACE STUDIES, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Università degli Studi di ROMA "La Sapienza"
Collegi of the degree programmes
Teachings
PhD
- Fondamenti di econometria dei dati panel. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE E DELLA PRODUZIONE. Teaching assistant
- Econometria dei modelli lineari. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE E DELLA PRODUZIONE. Teaching assistant
- Fondamenti di econometria dei dati panel. A.A. 2022/23, GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN. Teaching assistant
- Fondamenti di econometria dei dati discreti. A.A. 2021/22, GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN. Teaching assistant
- Fondamenti di econometria dei dati panel. A.A. 2020/21, GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Industrial Economics. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Industrial Economics. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
- Industrial Economics. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Industrial Economics. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
- Industrial Economics. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Industrial Economics. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
- Analisi dei sistemi economici. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Industrial Economics. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
- Industrial Economics. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
- Industrial Economics. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Economics. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Titolare del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Genere e tecnica (Grandi Sfide - Tecnologie e Umanità). A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Genere e tecnica (Grandi Sfide - Tecnologie e Umanità). A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Genere e tecnica (Grandi Sfide - Tecnologie e Umanità). A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Genere e tecnica (Grandi Sfide - Tecnologie e Umanità). A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
- Genere e tecnica (Grandi Sfide - Tecnologie e Umanità). A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
Other activities and projects related to teaching
Long-term collaboration with the International Training Centre of the ILO, the international training center of the United Nations agency International Labour Organisation (ILO), for several teaching assignments for short courses, academies, seminars, and teaching modules within the Masters organized by the Centre, mainly on the topics of methodologies for the impact evaluation of projects and public policies, introduction to data analysis, and econometric methods for impact evaluation.
Since 2023, member of the scientific committee of the Master in Technology and Public Policy, co-organized by the Scuola Master del Politecnico di Torino and the International Training Centre of the ILO/Turin School of Development.
Research
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- Pandemic&Trade - Pandemic shock and the sustainability of international trade flows, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN - ENVIREG4FIRMS - Environmental regulation and the pressure towards a sustainable reallocation of international trade flows: new empirical evidence from Italy, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN
Supervised PhD students
- Maria Laura Pupo. Programme in Ingegneria Gestionale E Della Produzione (39th cycle, 2024-in progress)
- Alida Sangrigoli. Programme in Gestione, Produzione E Design (35th cycle, 2019-2023)
Thesis: Essays on the Determinants and Effects of Foreign Direct Investments in Africa
Other activities and projects related to research
04/10/2022 – 24/12/2022. Expert evaluator of applications. European Commission Research Executive Agency (REA) and European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), Call for Proposals HORIZON-EIC-2022-GENDER-01. Remote evaluator for the Horizon Europe call HORIZON-EIC-2022-GENDER-01-01 (https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-eic-2022-gender-01-01). The call is part of the European Innovation Council (EIC) Work Programme 2022. The aim of the call is to develop a gender and diversity index for innovative technology start-ups and scale-ups, in order to encourage diversity in the technology world by allowing start-ups to voluntarily report diversity metrics.
07/15/2021. VisitInps Scholar Type B - Researcher in charge of Empirical analyses At the National Institute of Social Security (INPS), Directorate-General for Studies and Research - VisitInps Scholars Programme. Researcher in charge of empirical analyses (PI Davide Castellani; other members of the research group: L. Benfratello, A. Manello, K. Lavoratori) for the project "Labour market effects of production reshoring" within the VisitInps programme, which guarantees access to the universe of INPS administrative data on the basis of a competitive process. Project approved in August 2020; research started 07/15/2021.
09/01/2018. VisitInps Scholar Type B. At the National Institute of Social Security (INPS), Directorate-General for Studies and Research - VisitInps Scholars Programme. Researcher responsible for the research on the impact of unemployment benefit generosity on job quality, within the VisitInps programme, which guarantees access to the INPS administrative data universe on the basis of a competitive process. The research led to the drafting of the paper "For a few Euro more: Benefit Generosity and the Optimal Path of Unemployment Benefits" (CEP working paper, 2022), together with V. Scrutinio.
29/10/2020 - 06/06/2021 - Participation in the research group of the project ENE-N8746, "Energy Planning for African Communities Off_Grid". Partners: Polytechnic University of Turin, Departments of Energetics (P. Leone, E. Vaccariello, M. Palombo, B. Ugwoke, R. Borchiellini) and Management and Production Engineering (A. D’Ambrosio, C. Ravetti, L. Benfratello, C. Cambini), ENI/NAOC (Nigerian Agip Oil Company, one of the three Eni subsidiaries in Nigeria; L. Mattarolo, G. Marando, A. Pellegrino).
31/05/2016 - 10/06/2016. Microsimulation consultant - International Labour Organization, ILO, Post-Disaster Needs Assessment - Ecuador Earthquake. Consultant in the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment developed by ILO and UNDP following the 16 April 2016 earthquake in Ecuador. Assignment for microsimulation activities aimed at assessing the economic impact of the earthquake on the most severely affected communities.
Publications
PoliTO co-authors
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- D'Ambrosio, Anna; Lavoratori, Katiuscia (2025)
Reshoring to survive? The other side of de-globalization. In: ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE. ISSN 0391-2078
Contributo su Rivista - D'Ambrosio, Anna (2025)
Come reagiscono le imprese al salario minimo?. In: Lavoro e salari in Italia. Cambiamenti nell’occupazione, precarietà, impoverimento / Rinaldo Evangelista; Lia Pacelli, S.L., Carocci, pp. 125-135. ISBN: 8829028347
Contributo in Volume - Colombelli, Alessandra; D’Ambrosio, Anna; Meliciani, Valentina (2025)
Explaining Spatial Diversity in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Knowledge and Cultural Diversity. In: Oxford Handbook of Spatial Diversity and Business Economics / Sofia Wixe; Martin Andersson; Charlie Karlsson, S.L., Oxford. ISBN: 9780198866190
Contributo in Volume - Colombelli, Alessandra; D’Ambrosio, Anna; Le Masle, Baptiste; Ravetti, Chiara; Tubiana, ... (2025)
Knowledge spillovers, green entrepreneurship and the demand for sustainability: evidence from Italian innovative startups. In: THE JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. ISSN 0892-9912
Contributo su Rivista - Benfratello, Luigi; D'Ambrosio, Anna; Sangrigoli, Alida (2025)
Foreign direct investment, structural transformation and employment: evidence from Ghana. In: REVIEW OF WORLD ECONOMICS. ISSN 1610-2878
Contributo su Rivista - D’Ambrosio, Anna; Leombruni, Roberto; Razzolini, Tiziano (2025)
Does far-right populism affect immigrants’ working conditions?. In: JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS, vol. 38. ISSN 1432-1475
Contributo su Rivista - Pupo, MARIA LAURA; D’Ambrosio, Anna; Benfratello, Luigi; Falavigna, Greta; Manello, ... (2025)
Measuring the sustain ability of firms’ trade: a review of the methods and an application to the COVID-19 crisis. In: 51st EBES Conference Proceedings, pp. 925-942
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Colombelli, Alessandra; D’Ambrosio, Anna; Meliciani, Valentina (2025)
Knowledge and cultural diversity in entrepreneurship: Untangling the relationship. In: EURASIAN BUSINESS REVIEW. ISSN 1309-4297
Contributo su Rivista - D’Ambrosio, Anna; Lavoratori, Katiuscia; Benfratello, Luigi; Castellani, Davide; ... (2024)
Le attività di backshoring delle imprese italiane: Evidenza dai dati amministrativi. In: Allegato al XXIII Rapporto Annuale INPS, INPS - Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale
Altro - Colombelli, Alessandra; D’Ambrosio, Anna; Ravetti, Chiara (2024)
Women in innovative start-ups and regional inclusiveness: ‘green’ and socially-responsible companies. In: REGIONAL STUDIES, pp. 1-14. ISSN 0034-3404
Contributo su Rivista - Benfratello, Luigi; Castellani, Davide; D'Ambrosio, Anna (2024)
Migration and the location of MNE activities: Evidence from Italian provinces. In: JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, vol. 64, pp. 428-461. ISSN 0022-4146
Contributo su Rivista - Benfratello, Luigi; D’Ambrosio, Anna; Sangrigoli, Alida; Scabbia, Gabriele (2023)
FDI in Balkan Countries: The Role of EU Accession on FDI Attraction. In: Inequality, Geography and Global Value Chains / Lee J., Ibarra-Olivo E., Lavoratori K., Li L., Cham, Springer International Publishing, pp. 135-159. ISBN: 978-3-031-24089-8
Contributo in Volume - Benfratello, Luigi; D'Ambrosio, Anna; Sangrigoli, Alida (2022)
International Investment Agreements and FDI inflows in Africa. In: POLITICA ECONOMICA, pp. 1-40. ISSN 1120-9496
Contributo su Rivista - Benfratello, Luigi; D'Ambrosio, Anna; Sangrigoli, Alida (2022)
Foreign Direct Investments in Africa: are Chinese investors different?. In: JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, vol. 155. ISSN 0148-2963
Contributo su Rivista - D'Ambrosio, Anna; Scrutinio, Vincenzo (2022)
A few Euro more: benefit generosity and the optimal path of unemployment benefits. In: Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper / S.N., S.L., Centre for Economic Performance - London School of Economics and Political Science
Contributo in Volume - D'Ambrosio, Anna; Scrutinio, Vincenzo (2022)
For a few Euro more: Benefit Generosity and the Optimal Path of Unemployment Benefits. In: WorkINPS Paper n. 46, INPS
Altro - Benfratello, Luigi; D'Ambrosio, Anna; Sangrigoli, Alida (2021)
Why investing in Africa? The differential role of Chinese government support. In: ETSG 2021 GHENT, Ghent, Belgio, 9-11 settembre 2021
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Colombelli, Alessandra; D'Ambrosio, Anna; Ravetti, Chiara (2021)
Green innovative start-ups and gender shares. In: IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Orlando, FL, USA, 15-18 Dec. 2021, pp. 4260-4264. ISBN: 978-1-6654-3902-2
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Benfratello, Luigi; D'Ambrosio, Anna; Sangrigoli, Alida (2019)
Foreign direct investments in Africa: are Chinese investors different?. In: 5th OEET Workshop: Trade Wars and Global Crises: The Outlook for Emerging and Advanced Countries, Torino, Dicembre 2019
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Benfratello, Luigi; D'Ambrosio, Anna; Sangrigoli, Alida (2019)
International Investment Agreements and FDI inflows in Africa. In: SIE 60ª RSA, Palermo, 24-26 ottobre 2019
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)