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Luisito Bertinelli is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Luxembourg's Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, Department of Economics and Management since 2003. He holds a PhD in Economics from Université catholique de Louvain (2003) and a degree in International Economic Relations from Sciences Po Paris (1999). His research focuses on environmental and development economics, particularly the intersection of climate factors with economic development. He pioneered the use of satellite data and mobile phone analytics to study socio-economic phenomena, including migration patterns and environmental impacts.
Research interests include climate change adaptation, tax policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, refugee mobility, and international resource competition. His work spans diverse topics such as the economic impacts of locust plagues, cash crop price shocks, and rare earth element trade dynamics between the US and China. He has published in top journals like the Review of Economics and Statistics and Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
Bertinelli’s recent studies leverage innovative data sources: mobile phone records for refugee migration analysis, satellite imagery for hurricane damage assessments, and corporate tax data from African nations. His scholarship on tax avoidance in Senegal and Mali, and the environmental Kuznets curve, has influenced policy discussions on sustainable development. He also explores how urbanization and agglomeration economies shape human capital accumulation and economic growth.
