Dr Enrico Vanino

School of Economics

Associate Professor in Economics

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e.vanino@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3318
Room C52, Elmfield Building

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Dr Enrico Vanino
School of Economics
Room C52
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
Profile

Enrico is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the School of Economics of the University of Sheffield.

His research focuses on issues related to urban and regional economics, the economics of innovation, and international economics.

Enrico holds a PhD in economics from the University of Birmingham. He previously worked as a fellow in economic geography at the London School of Economics, and as BA innovation fellow at the ONS Survey and Economic Indicators division.

He is part of the Council of Experts of the Innovation and Research Caucus, and he is an Associate Editor for the journal Economic Modelling.

Enrico leads the Sheffield Urban, International Trade, and Environmental Economics (SUITE) Research Group, and also organises the Bessemer Symposium in the Economics of Innovation hosted every year at the University of Sheffield.

Qualifications

PhD Economics - University of Birmingham (2016)

MSc International Economics - University of Padua (2011)

BSc International Economics - University of Padua (2011)

Research interests

Enrico's research interests are focused on applied microeconometrics, particularly at the intersection between international economics, regional and urban economics, and the economics of innovation.

Specifically, his research looks at firms behaviour, the industrial and spatial distribution of economic activities and innovation, mainly applying advanced micro-econometric methods to granular longitudinal data on firms characteristics, innovation and internationalization.

Enrico is interested in supervising PhD students in applied microeconometrics, specifically in topics related to trade and international economics, regional and urban economics, and the economics of innovation.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Roper S, Vanino E & Hewitt-Dundas N (2025) . Industrial and Corporate Change.
  • Corradini C, Matheson J & Vanino E (2024) . Economica, 91(363), 944-979.
  • Becker B, Roper S & Vanino E (2023) . Technovation, 128.
  • Pinchbeck E, Roth S, Szumilo N & Vanino E (2023) . Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 10(6), 1439-1473.
  • Casadei P, Vanino E & Lee N (2023) . Regional Studies, 57(7), 1349-1366.
  • Corradini C, Morris D & Vanino E (2022) . Regional Studies, 57(6), 1043-1054.
  • Corradini C & Vanino E (2022) . Journal of Economic Geography, 22(3), 631-651.
  • Darko C, Occhiali G & Vanino E (2021) . Journal of Development Studies, 57(12), 2112-2135.
  • Szumilo N & Vanino E (2021) . Real Estate Economics, 49(3), 968-996.
  • Szumilo N & Vanino E (2021) . Journal of Business Venturing, 36(4).
  • Du J & Vanino E (2021) . Regional Studies, 55(2), 167-181.
  • Elliott RJR, Jabbour L & Vanino E (2020) . Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 82(1), 180-208.
  • Jabbour L, Tao Z, Vanino E & Zhang Y (2019) . Journal of International Economics, 117, 1-20.
  • Vanino E & Lee S (2018) . Economics Letters, 170, 10-13.
  • Vanino E, Siddall T & Rupp W () . International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2).

Working papers

  • Corradini C, Matheson J & Vanino E (2022) How important is neighbourhood labour structure in the spread of COVID-19? Within-city evidence from England. The Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series, 2022011.

Preprints

  • Pinchbeck EW, Roth S, Szumilo N & Vanino E () The price of indoor air pollution : evidence from radon maps and the housing market.
Grants

"Exploring the Link between Publicly Funded R&D Collaborations and Regional Technological Development". UKRI IRC CoE Funding (January 2025-December 2025).

"Drivers of Local Prosperity Differences: People, Firms and Places". ESRC Levelling-Up Sandpit (June 2024-March 2025).

"Uncovering Hidden Innovators: using big data to develop comprehensive measures of firm innovation and regional tech specialisation". British Academy Innovation Fellowships Route B: Policy-led (Sept 2023-March 2025).

"Renewable Energy Transition and the Local Economic Development of Lagging-behind Regions". Regional Studies Association early-career grant (June 2022-March 2024).

"Towards the Implementation of a Regional Skills Policy Framework". UKRI Higher Education Innovation Fund (April 2022-July 2022).

"COVID-19 Places Economic Recovery Index. Research England Quality-Related Knowledge Exchange Policy Funding (January 2021-July 2021).

ESRC Academic Secondment at BEIS (January 2021-September 2021).

"COVID-19 Urban Density Mapping". Regional Studies Association Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry (September 2020-June 2021).

Teaching activities

Enrico is currently teaching:

  • ECN326 - Urban Economics (3rd year UG)
  • ECN610 - Advanced Research Methods (PGR)