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MATTIA FOCHESATO
January 2014
Ph.D. in Economics
Department of Economics and Statistics
University of Siena, Piazza S. Francesco 7, 53100, Siena, Italy
Mobile: +39 3930153185
E-mail: [email protected]
Skype id: mattia_fochesato
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2013-present
Research Fellow, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena.
EDUCATION
2009-2013
2006-2009
2003-2006
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Siena, Italy. Thesis committee: Giovanni Federico
(University of Pisa and EUI), Maristella Botticini (Bocconi University), Eugenio Peluso
(University of Verona).
M.A. (Laurea magistrale) in Economics (cum Laude), University of Siena, Italy.
B.A. (Laurea) in Economics (cum Laude), University of Siena, Italy.
DESIRED RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS
Economic history, Political economy, Public economics, Game theory
VISITING PERIODS
2012
2012
2007-2008
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Department of Economics, Stanford, California, US,
hosted by Professor Avner Greif.
Visiting Researcher at Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico. Hosted by Professor Samuel Bowles.
Oxford University, Pembroke College, Graduate Visiting Student.
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS (ENGLISH)
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Fochesato, Mattia and Samuel Bowles. 2012. “Nordic Exceptionalism? Social democratic egalitarianism in
world historic perspective”, Conditional acceptance by the Journal of Public Economics for the special
issue for the ESOP Conference on the Economics of the Nordic Model, September 2012.
Fochesato Mattia, 2013, “Did oligarchies really work better? Public finance in a late medieval Italian citystate”, University of Siena (Available on request).
Fochesato Mattia, 2013, “Administrative power and state formation: late medieval Siena”, University of
Siena (Available on request).
Fochesato, Mattia and Samuel Bowles. 2013. “Technology, institutions and wealth inequality in the very
long run.” Santa Fe Institute (Available on request).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Fochesato, Mattia. “Francesco da Empoli e Pietro Strozzi: un dibattito su debito pubblico e usura nella
Firenze del Trecento”, Studi Francescani, Firenze: Frati Minori di Toscana, a.109, 2012, no. 1-2
San Bernardino da Siena, Antologia delle “Prediche Volgari”. Economia civile e cura pastorale nei
sermoni di San Bernardino da Siena, edited by Flavio Felice and Mattia Fochesato. Siena: Cantagalli, 2011
TEACHING
2012-2013
Introductory course to micro and macro economics, Course in Economics of Globalization,
Professor Ernesto Screpanti.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
Department of History, University of Siena, PhD. Seminar, November 2013.
ISNIE Conference, June 2013, Florence.
European University Institute, Department of History, PhD Workshop in Economic history.
9th BETA workshop in Historical Economics.
IMT- Lucca, Job Market Seminars in Economics.
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
IMT – Lucca, Seminars in Economics.
ESOP Conference on the Economics of the Nordic Model, Oslo, Norway.
World Economic History Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa (Poster Session)
University of Siena, Graduate Meeting. Santa Chiara College, Siena. Ph.D. Candidate Session
University of Lisbon, 14th ESHET Summer School on History of Economic Thought.
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2012
2009
2007
Earhart Foundation Fellowship for Visiting Scholar Program at Stanford University.
Ph.D. Scholarship in Economics, University of Siena.
Erasmus scholarship for Graduate students at the University of Oxford, Pembroke College.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2007
Collaborated with the “Istituto Bruno Leoni”, Torino, Italy, for the translation of “San
Bernardino of Siena and Sant’Antonino of Florence: the two great economic thinkers of the
Middle Ages”, Raymond de Roover, Boston, Baker library, 1967.
COMPUTER SKILL
General
Mathematics
Statistics
Mac OS, Windows, MS Office.
Wolfram Mathematica, Matlab.
Stata, EViews, R.
OTHER INFORMATION
Languages
Citizenship
Italian (native), English (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), French (reading skills).
Italian.
REFERENCES
Samuel Bowles
Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Rd, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, USA
Phone: (505) 984-880
[email protected]
Ernesto Screpanti
University of Siena
Piazza San Francesco 7, 53100, Siena, Italy
Phone: +39 0577 - 232784
[email protected]
Nicola Dimitri
University of Siena
Piazza San Francesco 7, 53100, Siena, Italy
Phone: +39 0577 - 232695
[email protected]