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Economic Growth
The geography of consumption
Consumer mobility helps to shape the retail market.
Ferdinando Monte is Assistant Professor of Economics at McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. His research focuses on international trade, wage inequality and the organisation of the firm. He also performed research on the relation across countries between culture and gender differences in educational outcomes. Ferdinando Monte received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2011.