Luca David Opromolla

Luca David Opromolla holds a PhD from New York University and is Owens Distinguished Professor of International Economics at North Carolina State University.

He performs research in international trade, industrial organization, and labor economics. His research focuses on firm dynamics and the size distribution of firms; firms’ decision to export vs. to open a plant abroad; the type and size of trade costs; the role of managers in determining firms’ international activities and in transferring export knowledge across firms; the internal organization of firms and their productivity; and the quantification of the effects of reductions in migration and trade costs.

Luca is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Research Fellow of CEPR and CESifo, and REM UECE at the University of Lisbon, as well as a fellow of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University.