Giovanni Pica

Giovanni Pica is professor of economics at the Istituto di Economia Politica of the Università della Svizzera italiana and Dean of the Faculty of Economics. After completing his Ph.D. at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, he held positions at the University of Southampton, the University of Salerno and the University of Milan. He is also affiliated with Centro Studi Luca D'Agliano, CSEF, and fRDB. His research concentrates on the labour market effects of financial market imperfections, globalization and labour market institutions. He is currently working on the role of internal capital and labour markets within organizations, on the effects of non-tariff measures on the behaviour of firms, and on occupational licensing. His work has been published, among other journals, in the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of European Economic Association, the Journal of International Economics.