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Professor Olmo  Silva

Professor Olmo Silva

Professor of Real Estate Economics and Finance; Director of Graduate Studies

Department of Geography and Environment

Telephone
020 7955 6036
Room No
CKK 4.30
Office Hours
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Languages
English, French, Italian, Spanish
Key Expertise
Applied Microeconometrics; Economics of Education; Urban Economics

About me

Olmo joined the Department in September 2007. He is Reseach Associate at the where he was Research Director between 2013 and 2016. He is also a Research Associate at the at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, where he worked as a full-time research officer between September 2004 and August 2007. His research concentrates on the economics of education, the economics of entrepreneurship and urban and real estate economics.

Olmo received his BSc and MSc in Economics from Bocconi University, Milan, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute, Florence. He also spent some time visiting University College London as a Marie Curie Visiting Fellow and Harvard University as a Visiting Scholar. He is a Research Fellow of both the IZA Network and the CESifo group.

His research has been published in leading general interest and field journals, including the Economic Journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Urban Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics.

Expertise Details

economics of education; economics of entrepreneurship; urban and real estate economics; applied microeconometrics

Countries and regions

UK, Italy, Europe

Sectors and industries

Real estate, banking and finance, education and the ‘third sector’

Selected publications

  • ‘ (with P. Bracke and C. Hilber); Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming (Bank of England Staff WP 560)
  • ‘’ (with S. Gibbons and F. Weinhardt); Journal of the European Economics Association, vol. 15(4), pp. 746-783 (IZA DP 8381)
  • ‘’ (with G. Faggio and W. Strange); Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 99(1), pp. 80-94, 2017 (SERC DP 0152)
  • ‘’ (with G. Faggio); Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 83(1), pp. 67-85, 2014 (SERC DP 0109)
  • ‘’ (with S. Gibbons and F. Weinhardt); Economic Journal, vol. 123, pp. 831-874, 2013 (IZA DP 5980)
  • ‘’ (with S. Gibbons and S. Machin); Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 75(1), pp. 15-28, 2013 (SERC DP 0018). Award for “Top 5 Most Cited Papers” in the Journal of Urban Economics in 2014, 2015 and 2016
  • ‘’ (with V. Lavy and F. Weinhardt); Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 30(2), pp. 367-414, 2012 (NBER WP 15600)
  • ‘’ (with S. Gibbons and S. Machin), Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 6(4), pp. 912-947, 2008 (IZA DP 2214)
  • ‘’ (with S. Gibbons), Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 63(1), pp. 631-650, 2008 (IZA DP 2728)
  • ‘’ (with C. Michelacci), Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 89(4), pp. 615-633, 2007 (CEMFI WP 0506 and CEPR DP 5828)

My research

Report and Working Papers

Author(s) Olmo Silva

Report and Working Papers

Author(s) Olmo Silva

Report and Working Papers

Author(s) Olmo Silva

Article

Author(s) Olmo Silva