CV
Current position:
- Associate Professor of Public Finance (28 November 2019 - present) at Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy.
Past positions:
- Assistant Professor of Economics (December 2012 - 27 November 2019) at Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy.
– Senior postdoctoral research fellow in Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics and Management "M. Fanno", University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Oct 2011-Sept2012.
– Postdoctoral research fellow in Economics, Department of Legal History and Theory, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy, March 2009-March 2011.
– Postdoctoral research fellow in Economics, Department of Economics, Polytechnic University of Marche, June 2008-January 2009.
Education:
– Ph.D. in Economics (15 March 2007), Polytechnic University of Marche.
– Master of Science in Economics, March 2005, Marche Polytechnic University.
– Bachelor ’s degree in Economics, April 2002, Marche Polytechnic University.
Summer & Winter School:
- IRVAPP Winter School 2017 - Fundamentals and Methods for Impact Evaluation of Public Policies, Venice, Italy.
– Barcelona Macroeconomics Summer School 2005 (Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle, Prof. Jordi Galì; Fiscal Policy and the Business Cycle, Prof. Albert Marcet) at CREI-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
– CIDE panel data course 2005, Palermo, Italy.
Research Grants and Award:
- FFABR national research grant 2017.
- Ph.D. fellowship 2004-2006, Polytechnic University of Marche.
Scientific habilitation:
– Full Professor of Economics (13/A2) (Italian ASN).
– Full Professor of Public Economics (13/A3) (Italian ASN).
– Associate Professor of Economics (13/A2) (Italian ASN).
– Associate Professor of Public Economics (13/A3) (Italian ASN).
– Maitre de Conférence of Economics (French SH).
Editorial board:
- 2019: Editorial board member of PRISMA.
- 2013-2018: Editorial board member of The Italian Journal of Public Economics.
Thesis supervision:
- 2012 - present: 80 undergraduate theses.
Department appointments:
- 2023 (September-present): Responsible for organizing seminars for the orientation of students at the Faculty of Economics "G. Fuà" of the Univpm.
- 2023 (April-present): Member of the Faculty of Economics "G. Fuà" group at the Univpm that orients students.
- 2022 (May, 17-19): President of the Commission for the renewal of the National Council of University Students, voting district of San Benedetto del Tronto No. 7.
- 2019 (December)-2021: Responsible of the teaching activities for the undergraduate course in Business Administration at the Univpm.
- 2017 (October) -present: Coordinator of Macroeconomics Ph.D course.
- 2016 -present: Member of the board of several post-doc grants.
- 2013 -present: Member of the PhD programme in Economics.
- 2013 -2017: Member of the board for the admission to Master's Degree in International Economics and Commerce.
Refereeing activity:
Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic Modelling, Constitutional Political Economy, Economic Analysis and Policy, Economics and Business Letters, Economic Systems, Empirical Economics, Eurasian Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, FinanzArchiv, International Tax Journal and Public Finance, Italian Economic Journal, Italian Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Local Government Studies, Open Economies Review, Papers in Regional Science, Policy Studies, Portuguese Economic Journal, Public Choice, Publius: Journal of Federalism, Regional Studies, Spatial Economic Analysis.
Conferences:
– XXXV SIEP Conference 2023, University of Verona, Italy, Septemeber, 2023.
– XXV Applied Economics Meeting, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Toledo, Spain, 2023.
– XXXIV SIEP Conference, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy, September, 2022.
- 7th International (web) Conference on "The Shadow Economy, Tax Behaviour and Institutions", Brunel University London, UK, 2021.
- XXXIII Web SIEP Conference 2021, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy, 2021.
- International Conference on Regional Science, Castellò de la Plana, Spain, 2019.
- XXXI SIEP Conference, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 2019.
- XL AISRe Conference, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy, 2019.
– XXX SIEP Conference, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, September, 2018.
– 12th Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Economic Journal, ISEG-University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018.
– XXIX SIEP Conference, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, 2017.
– XXXVII AISRe Conference, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy, 2016.
– XXIII Encuentro de Economia Publica, Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Turismo de Ourense, Galicia, Spain, 2015.
– 6th Halle Colloquy on Local Public Economics, Halle (Saale), Germany, 2015.
– Annual meeting of the OECD network on fiscal relations across levels of government, 2015.
– XXVII SIEP Conference, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, 2015.
– 71st Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Trinity College, Dublin, 2015.
– Albanian Studies DaysRethinking Development and Integration, European University of Tirana, 2015.
– 54a SIE Conference, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2013.
– XXXIV AISRe Conference, Palermo, Italy, 2013.
– 53rd ERSA 2013 Congress, Palermo, Italy, 2013.
– XLIX SIEDS conference, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, 2012.
– Multi-mode governance, shaping and being shaped by globalization, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2011 (invited discussant).
- Environmental Federalism: The political economy of the design of local taxation and environmental protection, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, 2011.
– XXIII SIEP Conference, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 2011.
– 8th PEARL Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, 2011.
– The 2011 Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, University of Rennes1, Rennes, France, 2011.
– Mid-term SIEP, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy, 2011.
– XXII SIEP Conference, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 2010.
– Australasian Public Choice Conference 2009, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, 2009.
– III World Conference of Spatial Econometrics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
– XIX SIEP Conference, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 2007.
– First World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Association, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College, UK, 2007.
– Public Choice World Meeting 2007, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007.
– XVIII SIEP Conference, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 2006.
Workshops:
– 14th International Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics, University Panthe´ on-Assas Paris II, Paris, 2015.
– CESifo 6th Workshop on Political Economy, Dresden, Germany, 2012.
– Workshop on Environmental economics, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2012.
– Workshop Pigou o Hobbes? Le scelte di bilancio di governi locali in Italia, Banca dItalia, Roma, Italy, 2011.
– CESifo 2nd Workshop on Political Economy, Ifo Institute, Dresden, Germany, 2008.
Seminars:
– IUAV, Venice, Italy, 2012.
– Department of Economics and Statistics ”‘M. Fanno”’, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, 2011.
– Department of Legal History and Theory, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy, 2011.
– I.P.S.C.T. "G. Falcone and P. Borsellino" - Liceo Classico "Dante Alighieri", Bressanone, Italy, 2009.