Jacopo Tramontano
PhD in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome.
“A digital platform connects agents, exerts power over those connections, and disrupts non-digital structures and intermediaries.”
Sapienza University of Rome · defended May 2026
What happens to a local labour market when an Amazon facility opens? A staggered difference-in-differences design on Italian municipal tax records outlines the effects on local employment and incomes.
MEF-IRPEF · local labour markets · Staggered DiD
Many firms became dependent on digital platforms. Using Italian firm-level survey data, this essay links platform use with increased worker flexibility.
INAPP-DPS · firm-level analysis · matching, DiD
Are platform workers worse off than comparable workers in the traditional economy, and why? Probit models with coarsened exact matching on Italian labour force data.
INAPP-PLUS · worker-level · Probit, CEM
Under review at Information Systems Research · LEM Working Paper 2025/07
Sinappsi, 2024
Draft available on request
I’m an applied economist based in Rome. I completed my PhD at Sapienza University of Rome under the supervision of Dario Guarascio and Valeria Cirillo, working at the intersection of labour economics, the economics of innovation and regional economics.
My research is concerned with the consequences for people, communities, and the planet of modern techno-economic power structures.
Outside the office I’m engaged in grassroots activism in Rome, I like hiking and climbing in my home region of Abruzzo, and I’m always down to cook dinner (and eat, yum).
causal inference · panel and cross-sectional data · spatial econometrics (beginner) · programming ·
Stata · LaTeX · Python (beginner)
Italian (native) · English (C2) · French (C2) · Spanish (B2)
Digital platforms · labour · innovation · regional economics
