Britto new director of the research unit CLEAN

Diogo Britto is the new director of the research unit research unit Crime: Law and Economic Analysis – CLEAN, which investigates illicit behavior employing detailed data and frontier quantitative methods. Britto replaces the former director Paolo Pinotti, who remains in the unit as researcher. Britto comments: “I am happy to take the helm of CLEAN. I look forward to shed light on crime and corruption and on their adverse consequences on society”.

Diogo Britto is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Director of the CLEAN Unit at Bocconi University, and UniCredit Foundation Marco Fanno Fellow. He holds a joint PhD degree in Law and Economics at the Universities of Bologna, Hamburg and Erasmus Rotterdam.

He is an applied economist with interests in different topics such as crime, labor, development, gender, and political economy. His research has been published in leading scientific journals, including Econometrica, The Review of Economic Studies, and The Review of Economics and Statistic. Britto is also a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University Wider (UNU-Wider).