Dr Federica Liberini

Profile

Roles:

• Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Quantitative Analytics
• Member of the Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics
• Co-Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Biography:

Federica is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary Business School, a Research Fellow at the Quantitative and Analytical Political Economy Research Centre (QAPEC), University of Warwick, and a member of the Women in Political Economics Network.

Before joining Queen Mary, Federica was a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Bath, and prior to that, a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

Federica holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• BUS159: Fundamentals of Quantitative Research
• BUS260: Quantitative Analysis

Research

Research Interests:

Federica's research lies at the intersection of public economics and political economy, with a particular focus on how digital platforms and social media shape political behaviour and government accountability — including the taxation of online advertising markets and the use of social media in political campaigns. Her work also spans taxation and firm behaviour, subjective wellbeing and political attitudes, and transport and urban economics.

Publications

• "Politics in the Facebook Era. Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections" (with Michela Redoano, Antonio Russo, Ángel Cuevas and Rubén Cuevas) — 2025, European Journal of Political Economy
• "Global Spillovers of Taxation in the Online Advertising Market. Theory and Evidence from Facebook" (with Andrea Lassmann, Antonio Russo, Ángel Cuevas and Rubén Cuevas) — 2025, European Economic Review
• "Welfare Losses of Road Congestion" (with Antonio Russo, Martin Adler and Jos van Ommeren) — 2021, Regional Science and Urban Economics
• "The Congestion Relief Benefit of Public Transit. Evidence from Rome" (with Martin Adler, Jos van Ommeren and Antonio Russo) — 2020, Journal of Economic Geography
• "Taxes and the Location of Targets" (with Wiji Arulampalam and Michael P. Devereux) — 2019, Journal of Public Economics
• "Was Brexit Triggered by the Old and Unhappy? Or by Financial Feelings?" (with Andrew J. Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Michela Redoano) — 2019, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• "Happy Voters" (with Michela Redoano and Eugenio Proto) — 2017, Journal of Public Economics
• "Wellbeing over 50" (with Paul Anand, Alistair Gray, Laurence Roope, Ron Smith and Ranjeeta Thomas) — 2015, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

Reports and Book Chapters

• Communities of grievance (with Brigitte Granville), 2024, chapter in "Towards a Very British Version of the Culture Wars", ISBN ISBN9781032627199

• Which Way Now? Economic Policy after a Decade of Upheaval: A CAGE Policy Report (with Vera E. Troeger; Charlotte Cavaille; Michela Redoano; Anandi Mani; Helen Miller; Ioana Marinescu; Claire E. Crawford; Mariaelisa Epifanio et al.), 2019. 

• Politics in the Facebook Era. How reading political ads on Facebook affects our voting behaviour (…and helped Trump to win the Presidential elections) VoxEU, November 2018.

• Brexit – a cry of financial pain, not the influence of the old, VOX-EU , October 2017

• Brexit: financial unsatisfaction or intergenerational conflict? UK in a Changing Europe, October 2017

• Happy voters Briefing. Is the economy stupid? Social Market Foundation, May 2017

• Happiness and voting, VOX-EU , November 2013

• David Cameron should pay attention to the “Happiness” of British citizens; it will help him win the next general election, LSE British Politics and Policy, October 2013.

Supervision

Dr Liberini is available for PhD supervision and encourages applications from students who are interested in applied economics, particularly in the fields of Public Economics, Political Economy and Media/Digital Economics.