Dr Enrico Vanino
School of Economics
Associate Professor in Economics
+44 114 222 3318
Full contact details
School of Economics
Room C52
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
- Profile
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Enrico is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the School of Economics of the University of Sheffield.
His research focuses on issues related to urban and regional economics, the economics of innovation, and international economics.
Enrico holds a PhD in economics from the University of Birmingham. He previously worked as a fellow in economic geography at the London School of Economics, and as BA innovation fellow at the ONS Survey and Economic Indicators division.
He is part of the Council of Experts of the Innovation and Research Caucus, and he is an Associate Editor for the journal Economic Modelling.
Enrico leads the Sheffield Urban, International Trade, and Environmental Economics (SUITE) Research Group, and also organises the Bessemer Symposium in the Economics of Innovation hosted every year at the University of Sheffield.
- Qualifications
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PhD Economics - University of Birmingham (2016)
MSc International Economics - University of Padua (2011)
BSc International Economics - University of Padua (2011)
- Research interests
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Enrico's research interests are focused on applied microeconometrics, particularly at the intersection between international economics, regional and urban economics, and the economics of innovation.
Specifically, his research looks at firms’ behaviour, the industrial and spatial distribution of economic activities and innovation, mainly applying advanced micro-econometric methods to granular longitudinal data on firms’ characteristics, innovation and internationalization.
Enrico is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics, specifically in topics related to trade and international economics, regional and urban economics, and the economics of innovation.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Trade-offs and complementarities between regional, sectoral, and national support policies for firms’ innovation. Industrial and Corporate Change. View this article in WRRO
- Neighbourhood labour structure, lockdown policies, and the uneven spread of COVID‐19: within‐city evidence from England. Economica, 91(363), 944-979. View this article in WRRO
- Assessing innovation spillovers from publicly funded R&D and innovation support: evidence from the UK. Technovation, 128. View this article in WRRO
- The price of indoor air pollution: evidence from risk maps and the housing market. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 10(6), 1439-1473. View this article in WRRO
- Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK. Regional Studies, 57(7), 1349-1366. View this article in WRRO
- Towards a regional approach for skills policy. Regional Studies, 57(6), 1043-1054. View this article in WRRO
- Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries. Journal of Economic Geography, 22(3), 631-651. View this article in WRRO
- The Chinese are here : import penetration and firm productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Development Studies, 57(12), 2112-2135. View this article in WRRO
- Are Government and Bank Loans Substitutes or Complements? Evidence from Spatial Discontinuity in Equity Loans. Real Estate Economics, 49(3), 968-996.
- Mortgage affordability and entrepreneurship: Evidence from spatial discontinuity in Help-to-Buy equity loans. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(4).
- Agglomeration externalities of fast-growth firms. Regional Studies, 55(2), 167-181.
- Innovation and the Creative Destruction of Trade: A Study of the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade for French Firms. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 82(1), 180-208.
- The good, the bad and the ugly: Chinese imports, European Union anti-dumping measures and firm performance. Journal of International Economics, 117, 1-20.
- Extractive institutions in non-tradeable industries. Economics Letters, 170, 10-13.
- Renewable energy transition and the local economic development of lagging-behind regions: Evidence from the offshore wind energy industry in the UK. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2).
Working papers
- How important is neighbourhood labour structure in the spread of COVID-19? Within-city evidence from England. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series, 2022011. View this article in WRRO
Preprints
- The price of indoor air pollution : evidence from radon maps and the housing market. View this article in WRRO
- Trade-offs and complementarities between regional, sectoral, and national support policies for firms’ innovation. Industrial and Corporate Change. View this article in WRRO
- Grants
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"Exploring the Link between Publicly Funded R&D Collaborations and Regional Technological Development". UKRI IRC CoE Funding (January 2025-December 2025).
"Drivers of Local Prosperity Differences: People, Firms and Places". ESRC Levelling-Up Sandpit (June 2024-March 2025).
"Uncovering Hidden Innovators: using big data to develop comprehensive measures of firm innovation and regional tech specialisation". British Academy Innovation Fellowships Route B: Policy-led (Sept 2023-March 2025).
"Renewable Energy Transition and the Local Economic Development of Lagging-behind Regions". Regional Studies Association early-career grant (June 2022-March 2024).
"Towards the Implementation of a Regional Skills Policy Framework". UKRI Higher Education Innovation Fund (April 2022-July 2022).
"COVID-19 Places Economic Recovery Index”. Research England Quality-Related Knowledge Exchange Policy Funding (January 2021-July 2021).
ESRC Academic Secondment at BEIS (January 2021-September 2021).
"COVID-19 Urban Density Mapping". Regional Studies Association Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry (September 2020-June 2021).
- Teaching activities
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Enrico is currently teaching:
- ECN326 - Urban Economics (3rd year UG)
- ECN610 - Advanced Research Methods (PGR)