Andrea Fracasso

Short bio

  Andrea Fracasso joined the Department of Economics of the University of Trento as Assistant Professor in March 2006.    He holds a B.A. in Economics (Trento), a MSc in Economics (York, UK),  a DEA and a Ph.D in International Economics from The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

Contact Information

Phone: +39 0461 282216
E-Mail:
andrea.fracasso(at)unitn.it
Address:
Dipartimento di Economia
Università degli Studi di Trento
Via Inama 5, 38122 Trento - Italia

Personal webpage at the University of Trento

Position

Assistant Professor of Economic Policy  (March 2006 - today)

 Department of Economics & School of International Studies, University of Trento, Italy

Education

  • Ph.D. in International Economics, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland 2003 - 2007, (with Distinction)
  • DEA (MA) in International Economics, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland 2001-2003
  • M.Sc. in Economics, University of York, York, UK 2000-2001
  • B.A. in Economics (Economia Politica), Magna cum laude, University of Trento, Trento, Italy 1994-1998
Curriculum Vitae

Research and publications

Areas of specialization

International Economics, Global Imbalances, Monetary Economics, Globalization and global economic governance, European Economy

Main Publications

Working papers

Work in progress

  • Global imbalances; growth rebalancing (with L. Bonatti - Department of Economics, Univ. of Trento)
  • R&D spillovers and trade (with G. Vittucci Marzetti - Department of Sociology ad Social Research, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca)
  • Financial constraints (with S. Schiavo  - Department of Economics, Univ. of Trento)
  • Interest rate smoothing (with A. Flamini, Univ. of Pavia)

Teaching

Current Teaching

School of International Studies (2011/2012)

  • The Economics of European Integration (Master - Magistrale SEI)

Faculty of Economics (2011/2012)

  • Applied International Economics (Magistrale MEC), also with Stefano Schiavo
  • International (Macro)Economics (PhD), also with Luigi Bonatti

Previous Teaching

School of International Studies (2009/2010, 2010/2011)

  • The Economics of European Integration (Magistrale SEI) - syllabus

Faculty of Economics (2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011)

  • International trade and competitiveness (Magistrale MIM), also with Maria Luigia Segnana
Faculty of Economics (2008/2009, 2009/2010)
  • Financial market and economic activity (Magistrale MIM), also with Roberto Tamborini
School of International Studies (2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008)
  • International Economics (for students with major in economics)
  • International Economics (for students of with major in other subjects economics)
Faculty of Economics (2006/2007, 2007/2008)
  • Laboratorio 1

Centro Studi Europeo Jean Monnet, Univ Trento (2007)

  • L'Unione Europea come luogo di produzione e di mercato 

Teaching assistantship

Faculty of Economics , Univ Trento (2000) - Politica Economica (Undergraduate)

IUHEI, Geneva (2003-2005) - International Economics (Undergraduate)

Awards, prizes, fellowships and scholarships

2012            Jemolo Fellowship - Nuffield College, University of Oxford (UK), July-September

2008            Premio Capalbio for the book "Le sfide della globalizzazione" (with F. Targetti), July

2006            Best poster award at the Poster session of EC2 Conference in Rotterdam, December

2005-2006 Scholarship granted by the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva

2000-2003 Study abroad Scholarship granted by the Fondazione Caritro, Trento

2000         Research scholarship at the University of Trento (April-September)

Selected presentations

      ·  2012 Annual Meeting, Allied Social Sciences Association, Chicago, IL (USA), 5-8 January 2012

       ·   16th World Congress, International Economic Association, Beijing (China),4-8 July 2011

·   10th Conference, European Economic and Finance Society, Queen Mary University, London, UK, 10-11 June 2011

·   Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Royal Holloway University, London, UK 18 April 2011

·   51th Annual Conference, Società Italiana degli Economisti, Catania, Italy, 15 October 2010

·   BREAD Summer Workshop in Development, Canazei, Italy, August 2010

·   36th Annual Conference, Eastern Economic Association, Philadelphia, PA (USA), 26-28 February 2010

·   XXI Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar, Rome, Italy, 24-25 June 2009

·   Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 6 May 2009

·   XIV Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-25 April 2009;

·   ASSET, University of Padova, Italy, 1-3 November 2007

·   Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 22-23 March 2007

Op-eds  and other publications

"La riforma della governance europea: passi avanti su una strada ancora più in salita", www.nelmerito.com, 19 Novembre 2010

"Che differenza c'è tra la Grecia e la California", con R. Tamborini, www.nelmerito.com, 19 Febbraio 2010

"Le dollar nous portera", www.nelmerito.com, 18 Novembre 2009

"L'economia globale dopo la crisi. Uguale a prima, ma non come prima?", www.nelmerito.com, 8 Luglio 2009

"Il governo americano Buy American. E gli altri?", www.nelmerito.com, 5 Marzo 2009

"Dis-accordi di cambio: il Dollaro e gli squilibri commericali", con S. Schiavo,  www.nelmerito.com,  9 Gennaio 2009 

"Paesi emergenti, FMI e riforma della governance", www.nelmerito.com, 11 Dicembre 2008

"Imprese verdi o imprese ' al verde' ?", con S. Schiavo, www.nelmerito.com, 28 Novembre 2008

 "Il ritorno dell'inflazione globale. Rischi e dilemmi.," www.nelmerito.com, 25 Luglio 2008

"La riforma della governance del FMI" , www.nelmerito.com e AffarInternazionali, 17 Luglio 2008

"Problemi della globalizzazione e necessità di governance dell'economia" , www.nelmerito.com & "Il riformista", 30 Maggio 2008.

Le molteplici cause di una crisi annunciata ” con S. Schiavo, www.nelmerito.com and AffarInternazionali, Aprile 2008

Administrative duties

Member of the coordinating committee of the Two year master degree (Laurea Specialistica/Magistrale) in European and International Studies, at the School of International Studies, University of Trento (2006-today)

Member of the Graduate School Committee of the PhD Programme in International Studies, at the School of International Studies, University of Trento (2007-today)

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. 
(Mark Twain)
Economists are the most economical about ideas. They make the ones they learned in graduate school last a lifetime.   (John Kenneth Galbraith)

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than commonly understood. Indeed the world is governed by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
(John Maynard Keynes)


Capitalism, based on greed, private property rights and decentralised decision making, is both cyclical and subject to bouts of financial manic-depressive illness. There is no economy-wide auctioneer, no enforcer of systemic 'transversality conditions' to rule out periodic explosive bubble behaviour of asset prices in speculative markets. It's unfortunate, but we have to live with it. The last time humanity tried to do away with these excesses of capitalism, we got central planning, and we all know now how well that worked. Hayek and Keynes were both right. Regulation should try to curb some of the more egregious excesses of a decentralised capitalist market economy, but without killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
(William H. Buiter)
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
(John Kenneth Galbraith)

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?". Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." (Charles M. Schulz)


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