Stefania Scrofani

Hi and Welcome to my website! I am Stefania, a PhD Candidate in Economics at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and a PhD Trainee at the European Central Bank.

I am interested on the diffusion and impact of new digital technologies at firm level. More specifically, I study the factors behind new technologies’ adoption in public and private organizations and how they affect firm performance, mainly in terms of labour productivity. I am also curious about how industrial policies can drive this transformation.

I employ a variety of microeconometric techniques to study these phenomenons, from more descriptive conditional logit model or spatial survival analysis, to causal inference techniques such as Difference-in-Differences. I work with a broad range of data, spanning from balance sheet firm information from Orbis, to online job postings, earnings call and surveys.

At the European Central Bank (ECB), I am working on the dynamics and effects of intangible investments in private organizations, using Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction on corporate disclosure. For my second project at the ECB, I am exploring trade policy uncertainty and tariffs.

I have a Master Degree in Economics and Data Analysis (European Master in Official Statistics) with distinctions from the University of Bergamo and a Bachelor degree in Economics and Management from the University of Trento.