Mirko Draca
Contact details
Telephone: +44 (0)24 765 23472
Fax: +44 (0)24 765 23032
Email: M dot Draca at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: S2.121
Advice and feedback hours: Tuesday 4:00pm - 6:00pm.
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Professor
Research Interests
- Labour economics
- Political Economy
- Economics of Crime
- Technology and Innovation
About Me
I am an applied economist who has worked on topics in the areas of labour markets, political economy, criminal behaviour and innovation & technology.
I am Director of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
My other institutional affiliations include the . I was a Network Fellow at at Harvard for 2011/12 and I was supported by an grant for the 2016-17 calendar period.
I studied for my Phd at . Finally, because everyone asks: I am Australian. My parents were immigrants there (hence my name) and I was born in .
A favourite recent piece: "Forget 'Progress Studies', We Need a New Science of Bureaucracy".
Latest
"The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of US Campaign Contributions" (2023) (with Johannes B枚ken, Arianna Ornaghi and Nicola Mastrorocco). Slides.
"Shadow Lobbyists" (2023) with Rocco d'Este and Christian Fons-Rosen. Updated Version.
(with Elliott Ash, David Cai and Shaoyu Liu). Slides.
"Revolution in Progress? The Rise of Remote Work in the UK" (2022) (with Emma Duchini, Roland Rathelot, Arthur Turrell and Giulia Vattuone).
"" (2021) (with Vasco Carvalho and Nikolas Kuhlen). Slides.
Main Publications
"How Polarised are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground Up." (2023) with Carlo Schwarz. The Economic Journal (Conditionally Accepted).
"Financing UK Democracy: A Stocktake of 20 Years of Political Donations" (2023) (with Colin Green and Swarnodeep Homroy). Fiscal Studies (Conditionally Accepted).
(2023) with Jason Garred, Leanne Stickland and Nele Warrinnier). The Economic Journal .
"?" (2019) (with Steve Machin and Theo Koutmeridis). Review of Economic Studies. 86(3).
"Trade-Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, Diffusion and Productivity" (2016) Review of Economic Studies, 83(1). (with Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen).
"Crime and Economic Incentives" (with Steve Machin) (2015) Annual Review of Economics.
(2012) American Economic Review, 102(6) (with Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Christian Fons-Rosen)
"Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terrorist Attacks" (2011) American Economic Review, 101(5) (with Steve Machin and Robert Witt).
"Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability" (2011) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (3) (January) (with Steve Machin and John Van Reenen).
Policy Papers + Other
Social Market Foundation - CAGE-糖心TV Policy Paper.
The Economic Impact of ICT. Gigantic scientific report on all aspects of the economics of ICT for the EU Commission in 2010.
"Reagan's Innovation Dividend? Technological Impacts of the 1980s US Defense Build-Up" (2013). Mimeo - this paper is resting but will rise again!