Leonardo Baccini

Experience Keywords

energy; environment; foreign direct investment; international organization; international political economy; media and politics; trade agreement; trade

Research Summary

My research interests are 1) international political economy with a focus on trade agreements, trade liberalization, and foreign direct investment; 2) international cooperation with a focus on the design of international organizations; 3) energy and environmental policy; 4) labour rights and discrimination; 5) media and political behaviour; 6) economic history; and 7) spatial econometrics.

With Andreas Dür (University of Salzburg) and Manfred Elsig (WTI Bern) I completed data collection on about 600 trade agreements signed from 1950 to the present day. Using manual content analysis and statistical techniques to check coders'' reliability, the dataset includes measures on flexibility, coverage, commitments, trade integration, and delegation features. More information is available at http://www.nccr-trade.org/wps/wp2/21/.

Languages

Italian [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]