DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
RESEARCH GROUP ON
INTERNATIONAL &
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
MEMBERS
Coordinator:
1. Silvia Marchesi (University of Milano Bicocca)
Group
Gr
p Members:
M mb r :
2. Emilio Colombo (University of Milano Bicocca)
3. Anna de Paoli (University of Milano Bicocca)
4. Valeria Gattai (University of Milano Bicocca)
5. Marialuisa Mancusi (Catholic University of Milan )
6. Mariapia Mendola (University of Milano Bicocca)
7. Simone Moriconi (Catholic University of Milan )
8 Alessia Paccagnini (University of Milano Bicocca)
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
RESEARCH TOPICS:
1.
ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY & INTERNATIONAL
MIGRATION
2. FDI & INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES
3 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT
3.
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
1. ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY & INTERNATIONAL
MIGRATION
Analysis of micro-economic aspects of economic development,
with particular emphasis on the relationships between household
behaviour in low-income contexts (i.e., human capital and intrahousehold inequalities,
q
, agricultural
g
productivity
p
y and farm
household well-being) and international migration and the labor
market (in both origin and destination countries)
• Mariapia Mendola
• Anna de Paoli
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
2. FDI & INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES
Analysis of the determinants of foreign direct investment from
developed and developing countries, the outsourcing (make or
buy) decision of multinational enterprises,
enterprises and the link between
internationalism and performance at the firm level
• Valeria Gattai
• Maria Luisa Mancusi
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
3. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT
Analysis of the determinants and consequences of market
failures in the allocation of financial resources, the role of
international organizations in the allocation of finance to
emerging markets and the role of foreign aid for those countries
p
markets
which are totallyy excluded from capital
• Emilio Colombo
• Silvia Marchesi
• Simone Moriconi
• Alessia Paccagnini
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Emilio
o Co
Colombo
o bo ((PhD in Economics,
co o cs, U
University
ve s y of
o
Southampton, 2001)
Current position: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Milan
Bicocca
Research Interests: Applied
pp
macroeconomics,, Exchange
g rates and exchange
g
rate regimes, Shadow Economy, Financial crises
Main Publications:
• Reinterpreting Social Pacts: theory and evidence, (with P. Tirelli and J.
Visser), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013
•Macroeconomic risk and the (de)stabilising role of government size (with F.
Carmignani and P
P. Tirelli),
Tirelli) European Journal of Political Economy
Economy, 2011
2011.
• Exploring different views on exchange rate regime choice, (with F.
Carmignani and P. Tirelli), 2008, Journal of International Money and Finance,
27 1177-1197.
27,
1177 1197
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Emilio Colombo
PhD dissertation topics:
• Financial crises
• Exchange rate regimes
• Foreign debt
• PPP tests
• Health and economic crises
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Anna de Paoli ((PhD in Economics, Universityy of Milan,
2011)
Current Position: Post doctoral position, Bicocca University
Research Interest: Development Economics, Economics of Education and of
the Family, Policy Analysis
Main Publications:
• Changes in the expected employment of graduates after the 3+2 university
reform Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, Vol.
reform.
Vol 69(3).
69(3)
• The effect of schooling on fertility, labor market participation and children’s
outcomes, evidence from Ecuador”, DEAS Working Paper n. 2010/30, 2010.
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Anna de Paoli
PhD dissertation topics:
• International migration and the labor market
• Economics of Education and of the Family
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Valeria
Va
e a Gattai
Ga a (PhD
(
in Economics,
co o cs, Bocconi
occo University,
U ve s y,
2007)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Bicocca University.
Research Interests: Foreign Direct Investment, Multinational Enterprises,
International Trade,
Trade Firms
Firms’ Internationalisation and Performance
Main Publications:
• “Firms’ Intangible Assets and Multinational Activities: Full versus Shared
O
Ownership”,
hi ” Journal
J
l off IInternational
i lT
Trade
d and
dE
Economic
i D
Development
l
,
19(4), 553-589, 2010
•“A Tale of Three Countries: Italian, Spanish and Swiss Manufacturing
Operations in China”, World Economy, 31(8), 969-992, 2008
•“Dissipation of Knowledge and the Boundaries of the Multinational
Enterprise”,
p
((with C. Molteni),
) Review of World Economics
/Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 143(1), 1-26, 2007
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Valeria Gattai
PhD dissertation topics:
•FDI from emerging economies (empirical)
•Full versus shared ownership of foreign subsidiaries (theoretical)
•International joint ventures under contractual incompleteness (theoretical
& empirical)
•Firms’ internationalisation and heterogeneity in performance (empirical)
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Maria
a a Luisa
u sa Mancusi
a cus (PhD
(
in Economics,
co o cs, LSE,
S , 2004)
004)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Università Cattolica
Research Interests: Economics of innovation, International trade, Industrial
organization, Applied econometrics
Main Publications:
• “National Externalities and Path Dependence in Technological Change: An
Empirical Test”, Economica 79(314), 2012
• “Innovation
Innovation and the geographical and functional dimensions of outsourcing:
An empirical investigation based on Italian firm level data” (with L. Cusmano
and A. Morrison), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 20(3), 2009
• “International
International Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity: A Cross
Cross-Country
Country CrossCross
Sector Analysis Based on Patents and Citations”, Journal of International
Economics 76(2), 2008
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Maria Luisa Mancusi
PhD dissertation topics:
• R&D/innovation, internationalization and financing constraints
• Innovation, internationalization and gender
• Innovation and migration
• International knowledge spillovers
• Internationalization mode and firm performance
• R&D FDI and
d offshoring
ff h i
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Silvia Marchesi (PhD in Economics, University of
Warwick, 2001)
Current Position: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Milan
Bicocca.
Research Interests: Foreign
g Aid, Multilateral Financial Institutions, Sovereign
g
Debt, Decentralization
Main Publications:
•“Did high
g debts distort loans and grants
g
allocation to IDA countries?” ((with
Alessandro Missale), World Development, 2013, 44, pp. 1-300
•“Read my lips: the role of information transmission in multilateral reform
design” (with Laura Sabani and Axel Dreher)
design
Dreher), Journal of International
Economics, 2011, 84, pp. 86-98
•“IMF concern for reputation and conditional lending failure: theory and
empirics”
mpiri ” (with
( ith Laura
L r Sabani).
S b ni) Journal
J rn l off D
Development
l pm nt E
Economics
n mi , 2007
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Silvia Marchesi
PhD dissertation topics:
• Aid allocation and aid effectiveness
• Informal governance in International Organizations
• Decentralization in developing economies
• Debt restructurings
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Mariapia Mendola (PhD in Economics, University of
Milan, 2005)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Milan
Bicocca.
Research Interests: Development economics, Labor Migration,
g
Economics of
the Family
Main Publications:
• Xenophobic
p
attacks,, migration
g
intentions and networks: evidence from the
South of Africa (with Guido Friebel and Juan M. Gallego), Journal of
Population Economics, 26 (2): 555-591, 2013.
• What drives individual attitudes towards immigration in South Africa?
(with Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda), Review of International
Economics, 21 (2): 326-341, 2013.
•Mi r ti n and
•Migration
nd Technological
T hn l i l Ch
Change
n in R
Rural
r lH
Households:
h ld C
Complements
mpl m nt orr
Substitutes?”, Journal of Development Economics, 85-(1-2) 150-175, 2008.
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Mariapia
p Mendola
PhD dissertation
di
i topics
i :
•International migration and the labor market (in both origin and destination
countries)
•Human capital and intra-household inequalities
• Agricultural productivity and farm household well-being
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Simone Moriconi (PhD in Public Economics, DEFAP Catholic University of Milan, 2007)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of International Economics at the
Catholic University of Milan
Research Interests: Public economics, Labour economics and International
Economics
Main Publications:
•Magda
g I.,, Marsden,, D. and S. Moriconi ((2012)) “Collective Agreements,
g
, Wages
g
and Firms’ Cohorts: Evidence from Central Europe”, Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, Vol. 65(3), 606-829.
•Moriconi
Moriconi S.
S and Y.
Y Sato (2009)
(2009), “International
International Commodity Taxation in the
Presence of Unemployment”, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 93, 939–949.
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Simone Moriconi
PhD dissertation topics:
• Tax and regulation competition
• International trade and the labour market
• Culture,
Culture international trade and migration
• Cultural spillovers (e.g. between migrants and natives)
• The Political Economy of Rating Agencies
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Alessia Paccagnini
g
(PhD
(
in Economics, Bocconi
University, 2009)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Milan
Bicocca.
Bi
Research Interests: Econometrics, Bayesian Econometrics, Time-Series,
Macroeconomics, Macroeconometrics, International Economics and
International Macroeconomics
Main Publications:
• On the Predictabilityy of Time-Varying
y g and DSGE Models ((with Stelios
Bekiros) (2012) Empirical Economics
•Does Trade Fosters Institutions? (with Marcella Nicolini), Review of
Economics
Econo
ics and Institutions Vol. 2 - no. 2, Spring
Sp ing 20
2011 - Article
ticle 4 ISSN 20382038
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• On the Statistic identification of DSGE models (with Agostino Consolo and
Carlo A
A. Favero
Favero. Journal of Econometrics
Econometrics, pages 99-115,
99-115 Volume 150,
150 Issue 1,
1
Pages 1-116 (May 2009).
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DEFAP
Graduate School in Public Economics
Alessia Paccagnini
g
PhD dissertation
di
i topics
i :
• Bayesian econometrics and time serie analysis
• Model validation and model comparison
• Forecasting
• Panel data estimation
• Applied
pp
econometrics to macroeconomics, international macroeconomics
and international economics
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