Matilde Bombardini is an Associate Professor in the Business and Public Policy Group at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley. Prior to joining the Haas School of Business she was an Associate Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on political economy and international trade.
Dr Bombardini is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the IOG group at the Becker Friedman Institute and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. She is also a Fellow in the CESifo Research Network and Co-Director of the Clausen Center for International Business & Policy.
Bombardini is a native of Italy where she graduated from the University of Bologna. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. She is the recipient of the 2015 Bank of Canada Governor’s Award, the 2012 Young Researcher Prize from the Canadian Women Economists Network/Réseau de Femmes Économistes (CWEN/RFÉ), the 2012 Harry Johnson Prize for best paper in the Canadian Journal of Economics and the 2016 Killam Faculty Research Prize.
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