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Istituto di Economia

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Jacopo Staccioli

Bio

Jacopo Staccioli is Assistant Professor of Economic Policy (s.s.d. SECS-P/02) at the Department of Economic Policy, Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Affiliate Researcher at the Institute of Economics, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, and Fellow at the Global Labor Organization. Currently, he is also External Consultant to the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, Paris, France, and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Political, Economic and Social Sciences, University of Milan, Italy.

He is mainly interested in the nexus between technological innovation and employment dynamics, which he investigates under a twofold empirical approach. On the one hand, he employs machine learning and big-data analytics techniques to explore the knowledge-base embedded into large datasets of patent documents; on the other hand, he collects first-hand testimony from within firms by means of field-work activity and interviews to blue- and white-collar workers.

He previously earned a Ph.D. in Economics at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies with a thesis on financial markets’ dynamics titled ‘Essays on the emergence of endogenous financial fluctuations’ under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Dosi.

Research

Publications in peer reviewed journals

  • Montobbio, Fabio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, and Marco Vivarelli (2021) ‘Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact’. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 174, 121122. DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121122
  • Staccioli, Jacopo and Mauro Napoletano (2021) ‘An agent-based model of intra-day financial markets dynamics’. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 182, pp. 331–348. DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.05.018
  • Cirillo, Valeria, Matteo Rinaldini, Jacopo Staccioli and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2021) ‘Technology vs. workers: the case of Italy’s Industry 4.0 factories’. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 56, pp. 166–183. DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2020.09.007
  • Staccioli, Jacopo and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2021) ‘Back to the past: the historical roots of labor-saving automation’. Eurasian Business Review 11, pp. 27–57. DOI: 10.1007/s40821-020-00179-1
  • Moro, Angelo, Matteo Rinaldini, Jacopo Staccioli and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2019) ‘Control in the era of surveillance capitalism: an empirical investigation of Italian Industry 4.0 factories’. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 46(3), pp. 347–360. DOI: 10.1007/s40812-019-00120-2
  • Dindo, Pietro and Jacopo Staccioli (2018) ‘Asset prices and wealth dynamics in a financial market with random demand shocks’. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 95, pp. 187–210. DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2018.08.009

Publications in peer reviewed collections

  • Staccioli, Jacopo and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2020) ‘The present, past, and future of labor-saving technologies’. In: Handbook of Labor, human Resources and Population Economics. Ed. by Klaus F. Zimmermann. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_229-1

Book chapters

  • Cirillo, Valeria, Matteo Rinaldini, Jacopo Staccioli and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2021) ‘Lean production, high performance work practices e Industria 4.0’. In: Digitalizzazione e Lavoro nelle Imprese Metalmeccaniche Bolognesi. Ed. by Francesco Garibaldo and Matteo Rinaldin. Il Mulino. [in press]
  • Cirillo, Valeria, Matteo Rinaldini, Jacopo Staccioli and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2021) ‘Sindacato e negoziazione della tecnologia 4.0’. In: Digitalizzazione e Lavoro nelle Imprese Metalmeccaniche Bolognesi. Ed. by Francesco Garibaldo and Matteo Rinaldin. Il Mulino. [in press]

Working papers

  • Dosi, Giovanni, Luigi Marengo, Jacopo Staccioli, and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2021) Big pharma and monopoly capitalism: A long-term view. LEM Working Papers series n. 26/2021 [PDF]
  • Santarelli, Enrico, Jacopo Staccioli, and Marco Vivarelli (2021) Robots, AI, and Related Technologies: A Mapping of the New Knowledge Base. LEM Working Papers series n. 1/2021 [PDF]
  • Staccioli, Jacopo and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2020) The present, past, and future of labor-saving technologies. LEM Working Papers series n. 37/2020 [PDF]
  • Staccioli, Jacopo and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2020) Back to the past: the historical roots of labour-saving automation. LEM Working Papers series n. 34/2020 [PDF]
  • Cirillo, Valeria, Matteo Rinaldini, Jacopo Staccioli, and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2020) Trade unions’ responses to Industry 4.0 amid corporatism and resistance. LEM Working Papers series n. 21/2020 [PDF]
  • Montobbio, Fabio, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito, and Marco Vivarelli (2020) Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact. LEM Working Papers series n. 3/2020 [PDF]
  • Moro, Angelo, Matteo Rinaldini, Jacopo Staccioli and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2019) Control in the era of surveillance capitalism: an empirical investigation of Italian Industry 4.0 factories. LEM Working Papers series n. 7/2019 [PDF]
  • Cirillo, Valeria, Matteo Rinaldini, Jacopo Staccioli, and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2018) Workers’ intervention authority in Italian 4.0 factories: autonomy and discretion. LEM Working Papers series n. 13/2018 [PDF]
  • Staccioli, Jacopo and Mauro Napoletano (2018) An agent-based model of intra-day financial markets dynamics. LEM Working Papers series n. 12/2018 [PDF]
  • Dindo, Pietro and Jacopo Staccioli (2017) Asset prices and wealth dynamics in a financial market with endogenous liquidation risk. LEM Working Papers series n. 33/2017 [PDF]

Other publications

  • Cirillo, Valeria, Daniela Freddi, Matteo Rinaldini, Jacopo Staccioli and Maria Enrica Virgillito (2017) “Field research report on the implementation of Industry 4.0 in a sample of Italian companies.” In: Matteo Gaddi, Nadia Garbellini and Francesco Garibaldo (Ed.), Industry 4.0 and its consequences for work and labour. Fondazione Claudio Sabattini and Associazione Culturale Punto Rosso. [PDF]

PhD thesis

  • ‘Essays on the emergence of endogenous financial fluctuations’ (defended on 22nd January 2019) [PDF]

Mimeos

  • Bubble-and-bust dynamics under Walrasian asset pricing and heterogeneous traders (2014) [PDF]