Olimpia Cutinelli-Rendina

Assistant Professor à l'University of Strabourg

Domaine d'expertise

  • Environnement
  • Economie politique

Biographie

Olimpia is Assistant Professor at the University of Strasbourg, Sciences Po Strasbourg.

Her research lies at the intersection of applied microeconomics, political economy, and environmental economics. Her current projects study how firms combine political influence tools and innovation strategies.

She obtained her PhD in 2023 from the Paris School of Economics, prepared at the Farhi Innovation Lab, Collège de France.

Dernières publications

    • Concurrence

    • Lobbying

    • Commerce

    • Publication

    Lobbying Behind the Frontier

    This chapter investigates the non-market response of firms to international trade shocks increasing the level of competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms and it concentrates particularly in those producers which are behind the technological […]

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    Publiée

    2023

    • Concurrence

    • Lobbying

    • Productivité

    • Working Paper

    Lobbying or Innovation: Who Does What Against Foreign Competition

    This paper studies the relationship between competition and firms’ political influence. I use the China shock identification strategy to assess the impact of rising imports over the last two decades on US corporate lobbying. The empirical results are the following i) the increase in foreign competition has brought firms to increase their lobbying effort by […]

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    Olimpia Cutinelli-Rendina

    • Lobbying

    • Working Paper

    How Firms Build Their Political Influence: Campaign Contributions as the Key to Successful Lobbying ?

    How do firms build their political influence? We shed light on the complementarity between firms electoral campaign contributions and their lobbying activity through three stylized facts. First, we show that firms lobby committees where there are legislators to whom they have contributed. Second the data reveal a high persistence in contributions between firms and legislators. […]

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    • Environnement

    • Innovation

    • Lobbying

    • Working Paper

    Environmentally-Responsible Households: Irresponsible Corporate Lobbying

    How do firms respond to greener household preferences? We construct a novel index of environmental willingness to act on the state-quarter level based on Google Trends search data. Relating the index to firm-level information on the U.S. automotive sector from 2006 to 2019, we find ambiguous results. On average, firms redirect innovation from conventional combustion […]

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Études

  • Doctorat, Paris School of Economics
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