Mauro Pisu

National Bank of Belgium and Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham

Mauro Pisu is a Research Economist at the National Bank of Belgium and an External Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) at the University of Nottingham. Prior to this position he held, until August 2006, a Research Fellowship at GEP part of which was funded by the ESRC through its Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship programme. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Nottingham in 2005 while working as Research Associate in the same research centre.

Mauro's research interest lies in applied international trade with a particular emphasis on firms' internationalisation decisions. His current research concerns the effects of foreign acquisitions and exports on productivity, the barriers of exports firms face, off-shoring and the impact of international trade on job reallocation.