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

Biography:

Federica is a Lecturer at the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London, and a Research Associate at CAGE Warwick and QAPEC Warwick.

Previously, she worked as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swiss Federal Technological Institute, ETH Zurich, and then as a Lecturer at the Department of Economics of the University of Bath.

Federica completed her PhD in Economics at the University of Warwick.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

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

Research

Research Interests:

Federica is an applied economist, and her research interests focus on public finance and political economy.

She is currently working on topics related to the digital economy. In public finance, she looks at the effects of the taxation of digital platforms on the online advertising market. In political economy, she looks at how to track social media political campaigns, as well as their effects on voters' behaviour, wellbeing and ideology.

Federica is a Research Associate at CAGE Warwick and QAPEC Warwick.

Publications

• "Politics in the Facebook Era. Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections" (with Angel Cuevas, Ruben Cuevas, Michela Redoano and Antonio Russo) - 2025, European Journal of Political Economy.
• "Global Spillovers of Taxation in the Online Advertising Market. Theory and Evidence from Facebook" (with A. Cuevas, R. Cuevas, A. Lassmann and A. Russo) 2025, European Economic Review.
• "Welfare Losses of Road Congestion" (with Martin Adler, Antonio Russo and Jos van Ommeren) - 2021, Regional Science and Urban Economics
• "The Congestion Relief Benefit of Public Transit. Evidence from Rome" (with Martin Adler, Antonio Russo and Jos van Ommeren) - 2021, Journal of Economic Geography
• "Taxation and the location of targets," (joint with Wiji Arulampalam and Michael Devereux), 2019, Journal of Public Economics
• "Was Brexit caused by the Unhappy and the Old?" (joint with Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Michela Redoano), 2019 , Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
• "Happy Voters," (joint with Eugenio Proto and Michela Redoano), 2017, Journal of Public Economics
• "Wellbeing over 50" (with Paul Anand et al.), 2015, The Journal of Economics of Ageing

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.