Basile Grassi
Assistant Professor
Biography
Basile Grassi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Università Bocconi since 2017. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an Affiliate at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER). Prior to joining Bocconi, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College and the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Economics Department at Sciences-Po Paris and at the European University Institute in Italy.
His research interests are in Economics, publishing articles on the topic in the American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, and Oxford Review of Economic Policy.
He got his PhD in Economics and an M.A. in Economics at the Paris School of Economics.
Recent Publications
- 2025
Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations
BURSTEIN, A. T., V. M. CARVALHO, B. GRASSI, "Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025, vol. 140, no. 4, pp. 2619-2684 - 2024
Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic
BARROT, J.-N., M. BONELLI, B. GRASSI, J. SAUVAGNAT, "Causal effects of closing businesses in a pandemic", Journal of Financial Economics, 2024, vol. 154, pp. 103794 - 2024
The EU miracle: When 75 million reached high income
GRASSI, B., "The EU miracle: When 75 million reached high income", VoxEU - CEPR, 6 June 2024 - 2024
2004: il miracolo europeo dell’allargamento
GRASSI, B., "2004: il miracolo europeo dell’allargamento", lavoce.info, 6 August 2024 - 2021
Sectoral Effects of Social Distancing
BARROT, J.-N., B. GRASSI, J. SAUVAGNAT, "Sectoral Effects of Social Distancing", American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2021, vol. 111, pp. 277-281 - 2019
Production networks and economic policy
GRASSI, B., J. SAUVAGNAT, "Production networks and economic policy", Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 638-677 - 2019
Large Firm Dynamics and the Business Cycle
CARVALHO, V. M., B. GRASSI, "Large Firm Dynamics and the Business Cycle", American Economic Review, 2019, vol. 109, no. 4, pp. 1375-1425
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Grants & Honors
Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2024

