I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Private Markets Department (DEC–IFC) of the World Bank Group, based in Paris. My research combines empirical and theoretical methods to study production networks, trade patterns, and spatial development. I am also part of the Global Trade Policy Observatory.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, where I graduated in July 2025 under the supervision of Giorgio Fagiolo. Before my current position, I was a PhD Trainee at the European Central Bank, working on non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) and financial derivatives, and a Short-Term Consultant at the World Bank, working on resilient infrastructure and supply chains.

Ongoing Research

Extreme Shocks in Global Production Networks

Cross-country Stylized Facts on Firm Networks

With Chiara Criscuolo and Verena Wiedemann.

Assessing Aggregate Effects of Firm-Level Shocks with Reconstructed Networks

With Giorgio Fagiolo, Leonardo Ialongo and Diego Garlaschelli.

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Fagiolo, G., Luzzati, D., & Zema, M. S. (2026). Link or Languish? A Long-Run Empirical Analysis of Production Network Positioning, Embeddedness, and Growth. The World Economy.
  2. Fagiolo, G., & Luzzati, D. (2023). Centrality in the Macroeconomic Multi-Network Explains the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Country Per-Capita Income. Applied Network Science, 8(59).
  3. Moran, J., Fosset, A., Luzzati, D., Bouchaud, J.-P., & Benzaquen, M. (2020). By Force of Habit: Self-Trapping in a Dynamical Utility Landscape. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 30(5).
  4. Spaiser, V., Luzzati, D., & Gregoriou, A. (2018). Advancing Sustainability: Using Smartphones to Study Environmental Behavior in a Field-Experimental Setup. Data Science: Methods, Infrastructure, and Applications, 2(1).

Book Chapters

  1. Coronese, M., & Luzzati, D. (2022). Economic Impacts of Natural Hazards and Complexity Science: A Critical Review. Handbook of Complexity Economics. London & New York: Routledge.
  2. Hynes, W., Kirman, A., Latini, C., & Luzzati, D. (2022). A Systemic Approach to Economic Resilience. In The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems.

Other Research Output

  1. Indirect Economic Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. In Alam, M. M., & Blancas, L. C. (2026). Integration: World-Class Trade Logistics Along the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor. World Bank, Europe and Central Asia Studies.

Policy Writing

  1. Europe's Other Oil Problem: Diesel, Jet Fuel, and the Chokepoints That Matter. Global Trade Policy Observatory, Data Point, September 2026. Covered by Le Grand Continent, La Repubblica, and La Vanguardia.

Contact

dadelutz [at] gmail [dot] com
dluzzati [at] ifc [dot] org