Distinguished Fellow
Professor Valentino Larcinese joins the Stone Centre as a Distinguished Fellow. He is Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, an institution he joined in 2001 and at which he has since progressed from Lecturer to full Professor. From 2013 to 2015, he additionally held an associate professorship at Bocconi University's Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, and he began his career as an economist in the Research Department of the Bank of Italy. He has held visiting appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sciences Po Paris, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata." He was awarded a laurea in Economic and Social Disciplines from Bocconi University, a Master of Science in Economics from the University of York, and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Professor Larcinese's research lies at the intersection of political economy and public policy, with a principal focus on the origins and consequences of political inequality. A central strand of his work examines the role of the media in political life: how news organisations respond to political incentives, and how patterns of media consumption in turn influence electoral behaviour. His research programme further encompasses the political economy of taxation, public expenditure, and redistribution, including analyses of how reform in one policy domain, such as taxation, can reshape the incentives underlying campaign finance and political influence.
His work has been published in leading journals in economics and political science and has been cited in the general and specialised press, including the New York Times, among other outlets. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the Steering Committee of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at LSE.
