Welcome to my webpage! I am a Senior Lecturer (tenured Associate Professor) in the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. I am also the co-director of the Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR). 

My research uses applied microeconomic methods to study how policy, institutions, and information shape economic and political behaviour. A central theme running through my work is accountability: how citizens hold governments accountable through elections, and how the flow of information — from local government communication to political campaigns on social media — affects that relationship. This has led me to study the role of digital platforms in politics, including how political campaigns use Facebook to reach voters, how local governments used social media to communicate during the Covid-19 pandemic, and how social capital and trust shape government performance and electoral turnover.

A related interest of mine is in how firms and platforms respond to policy: my work examines the taxation of digital advertising markets, profit shifting under preferential tax regimes such as European Patent Boxes, and the effects of taxation on the location of multinational activity. I also apply this same lens — using large-scale data to evaluate the welfare effects of policy — to transport economics, studying congestion pricing and the benefits of public transit, and to the economics of subjective wellbeing, including its relationship to political attitudes and voting behaviour.

Field: Public Economics, Political Economy, Media and Digital Economics.

Email: f.liberini [at] qmul.ac.uk | Google Scholar: here | LinkedIn: here | QM page: here

I welcome PhD supervision inquiries in Public Economics, Political Economy, and Media/Digital Economics.