CEP | People | Giuseppe Berlingieri

Biography

Professor Giuseppe Berlingieri is Associate Professor in Economics at ESSEC Business School, and a former Economist within the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation at the OECD. He is research associate of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics (LSE), the THEMA research centre at the CY Cergy Paris University, and the Baffi centre of Bocconi University.

Current areas of research include:

International trade: exporting and service outsourcing, offshoring, global value chains.
Firm organisation: firm boundaries and market concentration.
Firm productivity, innovation, and capital-labour complementarities.

Publications

Journal article

Managing export complexity: the role of service outsourcing

As manufacturing firms expand globally, business services such as advertising and legal support become essential for entering new markets. Exploiting exogenous demand shocks, we document that French manufacturers increas... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri and Frank Pisch

18 June 2026

CEP discussion papers

Creative destruction through innovation bursts

In theories of creative destruction, product innovation is a key driver of aggregate growth. In this paper, we confront the predictions of these theories about product dynamics with empirical patterns in product-level da... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Maarten De Ridder, Danial Lashkari and Davide Rigo

29 April 2025

Journal article

Service offshoring and export experience

Service inputs significantly influence export costs and firm internationalisation. A new dataset on French firms? participation in global value chains reveals that experienced exporters are more likely to source services... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri and Luca Marcolin

20 March 2025

Journal article

Last but not least: laggard firms, technology diffusion, and its structural and policy determinants

Using a unique microaggregated data set on firm-level productivity in 13 countries from 1995 to 2014, this article provides new evidence on technology- and knowledge-diffusion barriers for laggard firms. We show that, al... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Rudy Verlhac

19 November 2024

CEP discussion papers

Capital-skill complementarity in firms and in the aggregate economy

We study capital-skill complementarity in a multi-sector framework featuring firm-specific, multi-factor production functions. We characterize the elasticity of the skill premium to the price of capital equipment in term... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Filippo Boeri, Danial Lashkari and Jonathan Vogel

25 September 2024

Blog

Outsourcing market access services is a key strategy for firms expanding abroad

Business services like advertising, legal support and market research are key inputs for all manufacturing companies in an international business environment, since they are essential for accessing markets abroad. This c... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri and Frank Pisch

23 June 2024

Journal article

The great divergence(s)

This paper provides new evidence on the increasing dispersion in wages and productivity using a unique micro-aggregated firm-level data source, representative for the full population of firms in 12 countries. First, we d... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo

01 April 2024

Journal article

Industry concentration in Europe and North America

This paper presents new evidence on industry concentration at both the country and the world-region levels. It calculates country-level industry concentration measures from the novel data representative of the entire fir... Read more...

Matej Bajgar, Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis

13 January 2023

CEP discussion papers

Managing export complexity: The role of service outsourcing

As manufacturing firms expand globally, business services like advertising and legal support become essential for accessing new markets. This paper investigates how firms organize the provision of such market access serv... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri and Frank Pisch

06 April 2022

Blog

Service offshoring and export experience

Trade in services is important but difficult to measure. This column introduces a new dataset that helps understand the contribution of services to global value chains and their role in the process of exporting goods. Fi... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Luca Marcolin and Emanuel Ornelas

28 July 2021

CEP discussion papers

Service offshoring and export experience

Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Luca Marcolin and Emanuel Ornelas

03 June 2021

Journal article

Organizing global supply chains: input-output linkages and vertical integration

We study how the technological importance of inputs?measured by cost shares?is related to the decision to ?make? or ?buy? that input. Using detailed French international trade data and an instrumental variable approach b... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Frank Pisch and Claudia Steinwender

01 June 2021

CEP discussion papers

Industry concentration in Europe and North America

This report presents new evidence on industry concentration trends in Europe and in North America. It uses two novel data sources: representative firm-level concentration measures from the OECD MultiProd project, and bus... Read more...

Matej Bajgar, Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis

09 October 2019

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Firm size, productivity and pay in today's service economy

The evidence that bigger firms pay higher wages and have higher productivity is based mainly on manufacturing, which is only a small share of today's economy. Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo re... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo

01 July 2019

Journal article

The impact of trade agreements on consumerwelfare-evidence from the EU common external trade policy

This paper estimates the consumer welfare impact of the new generation of trade agreements implemented by the European Union between 1993 and 2013. We decompose the overall effect into contributions of changes in prices,... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Holger Breinlich and Swati Dhingra

01 December 2018

CEP discussion papers

Organizing global supply chains: input-output linkages and vertical integration

We study whether and how the technological importance of an input ? measured by its cost share ? is related to the decision of whether to ?make? or ?buy? that input. Using detailed French international trade data and an ... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Frank Pisch and Claudia Steinwender

19 November 2018

CEP discussion papers

The productivity-wage premium: does size still matter in a service economy?

Ever since Moore (1911) a large empirical and theoretical literature has established the existence of a firm size-wage premium. At the same time, a second regularity in empirical work, linking size and productivity, has ... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo

12 July 2018

Journal article

The productivity-wage premium: does size still matter in a service economy?

The literature has established two robust stylized facts: (i) the existence of a firm size-wage premium and (ii) a positive relationship between firm size and productivity. However, the existing evidence is mainly based ... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo

01 March 2018

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

The growing inequality between firms

Some firms pay well while others don?t; and some are highly productive while many aren?t. New research describes an emerging pattern of increasing inequality of wages and productivity between firms in the manufacturing a... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo

01 November 2017

CEP discussion papers

The great divergence(s)

This report provides new evidence on the increasing dispersion in wages and productivity using novel micro-aggregated firm-level data from 16 countries. First, the report documents an increase in wage and productivity di... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo

22 June 2017

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Outsourcing and the shift from manufacturing to services

Giuseppe Berlingieri looks at the structural transformation of the US economy over the past 60 years.... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri

05 February 2014

CEP discussion papers

Outsourcing and the Rise in Services

This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1948-2002. Roughly 40% of the growth of the service sector comes from professional and business services. This is an ... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri

22 April 2013