Basile Grassi

Associate Professor
Knowledge groupEconomics, Politics and Decision Sciences
Research domainsEconomics

Biography

Basile Grassi is an Associate 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

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  • 2026
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to Markup Estimation: Assessing Estimates From Financial Data
    DE RIDDER, M., B. GRASSI, G. MORZENTI, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Markup Estimation: Assessing Estimates From Financial Data", Econometrica, 2026, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 137-168
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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

Grants & Honors

  • Excellence in Research Award, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2024