GRAVINA Antonio Francesco  

 
I) Personal information: 

Nome: Antonio Francesco  

Cognome: Gravina 

Ciclo di dottorato: XXXIII Ciclo 

 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/afgravina/ · E-mail: antoniofrancesco.gravina@gmail.com 

-Current occupation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Law of the University of Palermo (Italy) 

II) Education within the Ph.D.: 

Dissertation Title: “Essays on Inequality, Automation and Globalisation” 

Tutors: Emanuele Millemaci (University of Messina, Italy), Michele Battisti (University of Palermo, Italy), Neil Foster-McGregor (UNU-MERIT, The Netherlands), Matteo Lanzafame (University of Messina, Italy; Asian Development Bank, Philippines) 

Visiting Student at: United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) [November 2019 – February 2020] 

Participation in courses/summer or winter schools: 

Panel Data Workshop - Prof. Y. Shin (University of Bari) - Modelling the spatial heterogeneity, the network dependence and nonlinearity in the multi-dimensional dataset [September 2018] 

Workshop in Advanced Econometric Course for Time Series and Panel data - EconoMetrics - Virtual Platform to Disseminate the Knowledge of Econometrics [April 2018 – May 2018] 

Area: Economics 

III) Other information: 

Research interests: Economic Policy and Applied Econometrics, primarly in the fields of Macroeconomics, Growth and Development · Awards: "Andrea Vaona" award for the best Doctoral Dissertation in Economics (October 2021), University of Verona and University of Trento 

Publications:  "Do robots complement or substitute for older workers?" (with M. Battisti). Economics Letters, 208(6): 110064, 2021 o "Finance, globalisation, technology and inequality: Do nonlinearities matter?" (with M. Lanzafame). Economic Modelling, 96, pp. 96-110, 2021 

Working Papers and Current Research:  “Automation, Globalisation and Relative Wages: An Empirical Analysis of Winners and Losers” (with N. Foster-McGregor), UNU-MERIT Working Papers Series, ISSN 1871-9872, September 2020 o “Robots versus Labor Skills: A Complementarity/Substitutability Analysis” (with M. Battisti, M. Del Gatto, C. F. Parmeter), Centro Ricerche Economiche Nord Sud (CRENoS), ISBN 9788868513665, October 2021 

Presentation of papers at conferences or congress: 

Awarding of the “Andrea Vaona” Prize for Doctoral Thesis, Department of Economic Sciences, University of Verona (Italy), 1 October 2021 

3rd Warsaw Money-Macro-Finance Conference (RCEA), Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, 3-4 June 2021 

60th Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE), University of Palermo (Italy), 24-26 October 2019 

7th SIdE WEEE for PhD students, Centro Residenziale Universitario di Bertinoro (FC, Italy), 29-30 August 2019 

EDEEM Doctoral Summer Workshop in Economics, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice (Italy), 13-14 June 2019