MAJOR WORK EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD OF INCOME DITRIBUTION, POVERTY ANALYSIS, SOCIAL POLICIES

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE OF VINCENZO ATELLA PERSONAL INFORMATIONS Date of birth : 9 September 1962 Place of birth : Venafro (IS) Citizenship : Italian Marital status : married with three children Languanges : English (fluent), French (good), Italian (mother tongue) Home address : Viale dell Umanesimo, Roma Italy Office address : Via Columbia, Roma Italy Phone and Fax : H O. atella@uniroma2.it Present position: Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Tor Vergata University in Rome; Member of the Scientific Committee of CER (Centro Europa Ricerche) - Rome EDUCATION AND HONORS STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford CA. Master of Arts in Economics LIBERA UNIVERSITA' INTERNAZIONALE DEGLI STUDI SOCIALI (LUISS), Rome. Bachelor in Economics (110/110 cum laude) Received scholarships from: C.N.R. (National Research Council): 1990 and 1991 for post graduate studies on Internationalization of the Italian Economy; BANCO DI NAPOLI: for graduate studies; CONSORZIO ROMA RICERCHE: 1987for undergraduate studies; ISVEIMER: for undergraduate studies. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES Associate Professor - Permanent position - Department of Financial Economics and Quantitative Studies (SEFEMEQ) - University of Roma II - Tor Vergata Assistant Professor - Permanent position - Department of Financial Economics and Quantitative Studies (SEFEMEQ) - University of Roma II - Tor Vergata Assistant Professor - Department of Economics - University of Sassari. COMPUTER SKILLS * Highly confident with Eviews, STATA and TSP. Good knowledge of GAUSS, LOTUS, QPRO, EXCEL, LINDO, SHAZAM and APL.

2 MAJOR WORK EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD OF INCOME DITRIBUTION, POVERTY ANALYSIS, SOCIAL POLICIES AND HEALTH ECONOMICS 1988 WORLD BANK - Washington D.C., USA - Central Operation Department - Investment Project Analyst, for the evaluation of investment projects on primary and secondary infrastructures and on Human Capital. Part of the period has been used to refine methodological issues in project appraisal that were interesting for the bank WORLD BANK - Country Department: East Europe - Economist for a mission in Belarus for an assessment of the policies on social security, health and income redistribution WORLD BANK - Country Department: North Africa - Economist for a poverty study in Algeria, working in designing a social policy for sustainable and equitable growth EEC - DG XII - Human Capital and Mobility Program - Brussels - Head of the Italian unit in the European network ENDEP working on "Control on Drug Expenditures in Europe". Dr. Atella is responsible to develop a model that can simulate the effects of different co-payment systems on drug expenditures in Italy and to see to what extent they can affect the access to care of low income patients Commission for Poverty Analysis - Rome: member of a task force with Prof. Federico Perali of the Verona University and with Prof. Ranjan Ray of the University of South Wales in Australia for the definition and estimation of a demand model for the update of the Italian equivalence scales. These new scales will be considered as the new official scales in Italy WHO European Region EEC - DG XII - BIOMED Program - Brussels - Coordinator the Italian unit in the European Network ENDEP working on Patient charges and decision making behaviors of consumers and physicians National Council for Economics and Labor (CNEL) - Rome - Coordinator for the writing of the Fifth CNEL Report on Income distribution and redistribution in Italy and Europe WORLD BANK - Country Department: East Europe - Economist for a mission in Belarus for an assessment of the policies on social security, health and income redistribution TECH-Europe - TEchnological Change in Health care global research network Co-founder and coordinator of the research group at European level EEC - DG XII - TSER Program - Brussels - Coordinator of the Italian unit working for the construction of EUROMOD, a microsimulation model at European level. The Italian unit is also responsible for the implementation of the country models for Greece, Austria and Portugal Agenzia per i Servizi Sanitari Regionali (ASSR) (Agency for Regional Health Services) Roma Senior Economist, responsible for the monitoring of the National Drug Market and Drug Expenditure Confesercenti (National Association of Retailers and Services Firms) - Roma - Senior Economic Adviser for the President Office National Council for Economics and Labor (CNEL) - Rome - Coordinator for the writing of the Sixth CNEL Report on Income distribution and redistribution in Italy and Europe Pharmacia & Upjhon and Aspen Institute Italia, responsible on behalf of Pharmacia for organizing the meeting on Regulation of the health system and drug expenditure, held in Rome on February 15, 2001.

3 IRI Management Roma, Speaker on a series of meetings with managers of the National Institute for Social Security (INPS). The main topic discussed is the reform of the Welfare State in Italy and Europe Prices Commission CIPE Health Ministry, Rome - Commission Member, nominated by the Treasury Ministry, in charge to fixing the prices of pharmacies refoundable by SSN Commission CIPE Ministry of Health Rome, Member of the Commission, appointed by the Ministry of Treasury, for the setting of drug prices in Italy Health Superior Institute Farmacies Observatory (OSMED), Rome - Coordinator of the project for realizing and managing an econometric model on public farmaceutical expenditure Prices Obseratory, IPI Ministry of Productive Activities, Rome - Economist for analysing the prices trend in Italy SIVEAS Committee, Ministry of Health, Rome - Senior expert Italian National Drugs Agency (AIFA), Rome Member of the Committee for the Strategic Evaluation Member of the Committee for setting National Guidelines for IQWIG (National Agency for Economic Evaluation in the Health Sector), Cologne (Germany).

4 MAJOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ACTIVITY Human Capital and Mobility (HCM) program - Project Cost containment policy in the drug sector in Europe, two-years project financed by the EU within the HCM program. Within the ENDEP research network prof. Atella is coordinator of the Italian unit and co-founder of the ENDEP research Network, a highly interdisciplinary network to study and evaluate drug policy programs in Europe. The main goal of this project is to evaluate cost drug containment policy across Europe CNR Health strategic project Le determinanti delle scelte tra pubblico e privato nel settore sanitario italiano. This researh activity, in cooperation with Prof. Rosati and with Dr Spandonaro aims to obtain a valuation set on the selection criteria between public and private health, creating a database, for the first time in Italy, that contain an homogenic information on i) the health state of the Italian population, ii) the offer structure of the sanitary services, iii) the patiences choices on sanitary services offer, iv) epidemiologic situation, v) on individual and familiar incomes with a disaggregation at regional level BIOMED Programma - Project Patient charge and decision making behaviours of consumers and physicians, three year project financed by the EU within the BIOMED program. Within the ENDEP research network prof. Atella is coordinator of the Italian unit. The main goal of the project is to evacuate how different co-payment systems can affect prescription decision by physicians and drug consumption by patients Program SOE of CEE - Project EUROMOD: a tax benefit microsimulation model, three years project financed by the EU under the SOE program. Prof. Atella is the scientific coordinator of the Italian unit. (more information are available at the following web page address: TECH-Europe - TEchnological Change in Health care global research network - Prof. Atella is co-founder of the network (lead by Prof. Mark McClellan, Stanford University) and coordinator of the Italian group. The main goal of the project is to evaluate in an international perspective the effect of the introduction of new technologies in the health sector, with special emphasis on the cardiovascular diseases. (more information are available at the following web page address: NBER - Stanford University January-March Invited by Prof. Mark McClellan for a research period at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) European Science Foundation (ESF) Exploratory Research Grant. Prof. Atella is the scientific co-ordinator of the project and co-ordinator of the TECH-Europe Research Network. The main goal of the project is to evaluate the effects of the regulation on the introduction of new technologies in the health sector and how these influence health expenditure and health outcome. (more information are available at the following web page address: Global health care productivity (GHP) research network - Prof. Atella is co-founder of the network (lead by the Stanford University) and co-ordinator of the Italian group. The main goals of the research activity is to measure health productivity within an international perspective. Within the network Prof. Atella is also scientific coordinator of the sub-project on drug expenditure (more information are available at the following web page address: Program ECUITY III, V program framework Prof. Atella is the coordinator of the Italian unit. Three year project sponsored by the European Union within the Socio Economic Research program.the project is the continuation of the previous EU sponsored project ECUITY II. The main objective of this project is to investigate the determinants of the access to health care services and to evacuate if there are main

5 health related income inequalities and how they differ across European countries (more information are available at the following web page address: Program SOE of CEE Project MICRESA: Micro-level analysis of the European Social Agenda: combating poverty and social exclusion through changes in social and fiscal policy, three years project financed by the European Union under the SOE program. Prof. Atella is the scientific coordinator of the unit of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. (more information are available at the following web page address: PARTICIPATION TO CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS 1990 V World Conference of IIFET (International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade), Santiago del Cile, December , paper presented: Testing Fresh Fish Price Formation in Italy: a Cointegration Approach. 1991a I Workshop on Strategies for the European Pharmaceutical Industry and Patient Interests, organized by EIASM, Bruxelles, January 31- February 1,1991, paper presented: Il Circuito Prezzi-Ricerca-Esportazioni nell'industria Farmaceutica Italiana: Causalità e 1991b Cointegrazione delle Serie Storiche nel Periodo ". SADIBA Conference Bank of Italy, Perugia (Italy), March , paper presented: L'uso della differenziazione frazionale ed intera nel testare l'iem per i titoli a reddito fisso: evidenze empiriche per Italia e Stati Uniti. 1991c Conference on "International Studies in Economic Modelling", London, July , paper presented: Long Memory process and the Efficient Market Hypothesis Conference on The Service Sector: Productivity and Growth, Rome, May , paper presented: Does Productivity Convergence across countries and across Sectors? Empirical Evidences form Eight OECD Countries Conference on "Structure des prelevement obligatoire et emploi: liens et possibilites des interventions", Rome, May , organized by General Customs and Indirect Taxation Directorate of the EEC and by University of Rome Tor Vergata, paper presented: Shifting the tax base from labour to capital: effects on factor demand in the Italian manifacturing industry. 1996a 1996b 1996c International Workshop on The multiple linkages between technology and the economy, Rome, March , paper presented: The determinants of productivity growth. VIII Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar on Finance, Research Education and Growth, Rome, June , paper presented: Productivity growth and the effects of recessions. Conference on Food Security in XXI Century: Political Economy after 1996 World Food Summit, Rome, December , paper presented: Transitional Economies and Social Policies: The Role of Production System SADIBA Conference Bank of Italy, Perugia (Italy), November , paper presented: Scale di equivalenza e misurazione della povertà in Italia International conference on technological change in health care, Stanford (CA), February , paper presented: The determinants and consequences of technological change in the health sector: the case of AMI patients in Italy. 1999a 1999b I TECH-MONICA workshop, Rome, September , paper presented: Memorandum for the reconstruction of financial data from MONICA data-bases and their utilization for international comparison. VIII European Workshop on Health economics and Econometrics, Catania (Italy),

6 September , invited as discussant. 1999c EUROMOD: a microsimulation model at European level, Rome, September , paper presented: The Italian model in EUROMOD: methodological issues and first empirical results Conference on Innovazioni in Sanità tra pubblico e privato", Rome, January , paper presented: Public and private health expenditure in Italy: characteristics, determinants and the effects of the 1992 NHS reform. 2001a III International Health Economic Association Conference, York (UK), July , paper presented: Determinant of access to physician services in Italy: a latent class probit approach. 2001b Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Economia Sanitaria (Italian Association of Health Economists), Catania (Italy), October , paper presented: Compartecipazione alla spesa farmaceutica e comportamenti decisionali di pazienti e medici:una comparazione a livello europeo. 2002a International Workshop on consumption behaviour and welfare measurement, Verona (Italy), March , paper presented: Precautionary Saving and Health Risk. Evidence from the Italian households using a time series of cross sections. 2002b II Conference of the Global Health Productivity Network, at Rockfeller Foundation in Bellagio (Italy), February , paper presented: Is health care expenditure really a luxury good? A reassessment and new evidence based on OECD data. 2002c Conference of the Ecuity Project, Rome, March , paper presented: The determinants of access to physician services: a latent class Probit approach. 2002d International Workshop on Income distribution and welfare, at Bocconi University, Milan, May 30 June , paper presented: Aversion to inequality and political choices in Italy: are voters rational? 2002e OECD conference on What is best and at what cost? OECD Study on Cross-National Differences of Ageing-Related Diseases, Paris, June , paper presented: The relationship between health policies, medical technology trend, and outcomes: A perspective from the TECH Global Research Network. 2002f International Meeting on Equivalence Scales, Household Behaviour and Welfare, Florence (Italy), June , paper presented: Income and Time Dependent Equivalence Scales for the Italian Case. 2002g International Meeting on Equivalence Scales, Household Behaviour and Welfare, Florence (Italy), June , paper presented: Demographically Varying Unit Values: Estimation and Interpretation. 2002h XI European Workshop on Health economics and Econometrics, Lund (Sweden), September , invited as discussant. 2002i V Meeting AIES, Bologna (Italy), September , paper presented: Health 2002j federalism, equivalization criteria and growth fostering mechanisms. III Conference of the Global Health Productivity Network, at the Chinese Health Economics Institute, Beijing (China), October , paper presented: The effects of the health policy changes on public and private health expenditure in Italy and UK: evidence from household budget surveys. 2003a IV International Health Economic Association Conference, San Francisco (USA), June , paper presented: The effects of the health policy changes on public and private health expenditure in Italy and UK: evidence from household budget surveys. 2003b IV Conference of the Global Health Productivity Network, Stanford (CA), June , paper presented: The effects of the health policy changes on public and private health expenditure in Italy and UK: evidence from household budget surveys. 2003c XII European Workshop on Health economics and Econometrics, Menorca (Spain),

7 September , invited as discussant. 2004a Conference on Ecuity Project, at STAKES Institution in Helsinki (Finland), June , paper presented: Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation of a Simultaneous Equation Model with Count Data: An Application to the Demand of Physician Services. 2004b XIII National Seminar Valutazione dell uso e della sicurezza dei farmaci: esperienze in Italia, at Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, December , paper presented: Medical compliance, co-payment and health outcomes: empirical evidence based on a panel of Italian patients. 2005a NBER Summer Institute - Conference on Aging, Washinghton, July , paper presented: Medical compliance, co-payment and health outcomes: empirical evidence based on a panel of Italian patients. 2005b 2005 CHILD Annual Meeting, Bari (Italy), July , paper presented: Medical compliance, co-payment and health outcomes: empirical evidence based on a panel of Italian patients. 2005c IX World Congress of the Econometric Society, at the University College London, London, August , paper presented: Medical compliance, co-payment and health outcomes: empirical evidence based on a panel of Italian patients. 2005d European Economic Association Conference, Amsterdam, August , paper presented: Medical compliance, co-payment and health outcomes: empirical evidence based on a panel of Italian patients. 2006a XV European Workshop on Health economics and Econometrics, Thessaloniky (Greece), September , paper presented: Drug policy evaluation with heterogeneous patients: Evidence from a panel of Italian patients. 2006b XI Convegno AIES, Venice (Italy), November , paper presented Drug policy evaluation with heterogeneous patients: Evidence from a panel of Italian patients. 2007a VIII International Health Economic Association Conference, Copenaghen, July , paper presented Wages and Weight in Europe: Evidence using IV Quantile Treatment Effect Model. 2007b II Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics, Rimini (Italy), January , paper presented Technology shocks, structural breaks and the effects on the business cycle.

8 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ON REFEREED JOURNALS 1998c Atella V., Quintieri B., Productivity growth and the effects of recession, Il giornale degli economisti e Annali di Economia, Vol. 57, n.3-4, pp d Atella V., Caiumi A., Perali F., Riccometro e povertà familiare: strumento efficace?, La Famiglia, 32, Nov.-Dic. 1998, n a Atella V., Rosati F.C., Uncertainty about children s survival and fertility: a test using Indian microdata, Journal of Population Economics, 13, b Atella V., Drug cost containment policies in Italy: are they really effective in the long-run? The case of minimum reference price, Health Policy, 50, c Atella V., Brennan G., Haajier-Ruskamp F., Hedvall M.B., Huttin C., Mechtler R., Noyce P., The cost of prescription medicines to patients, Health Policy, 52, Atella V., Caiumi A., Perali F., La scelta delle scale di equivalenza e gli effetti sui risultati delle politiche sociali, Economia e Lavoro, n.1, pp a Atella V. con TECH Research Network. Technological Change Around The World: Evidence From Heart Attack Care, Health Affairs, Vol. 20(3): b Atella V., Quintieri B., Do R&D spillovers really matter for TFP, Applied Economics, Vol. 33, n.11, pp c Atella V., Hassell K., Noyce P., Schafheutle E., Weiss M., Cost to the patient or cost to the healthcare system? Which one matters the most for GP prescribing decisions? A UK-Italy comparison, European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 13, n.1, mar. 2003, pp a Atella V., Atzeni G.F., Belvisi P., Will the Euro be beneficial on Firm s Investment Behaviour? An empirical investigation on a panel of Italian Firms, Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 25, Issue 8, November 2003, pp b Atella V., Brindisi F., Deb P., Rosati F.C., The determinants of access to physician services: a latent class Seemingly Unrelated Probit approach, Health Economics, Vol. 13, Issue 7, pp d Atella V., Rosati F. C., Spesa, equità e politiche sanitarie in Italia negli anni 90: quali insegnamenti per il futuro, Politica Sanitaria, Anno 3, n. 1, p a Atella V., Spandonaro F., Private health insurance in Italy: where we stand now, Euro Observer Spring 2004; Vol. 1, pp b Atella V., Coggins J., Perali F., Aversion to inequality in Italy and its determinants, Journal of Economic Inequality, 2004; Vol. 2, No.2, pp Atella V., Hassell K., Schafheutle E., Noyce P.: Affordability of medicines and patients cost-reducing behaviour. Empirical evidence based on SUR estimates from Italy and in UK, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2005; 4 (1): pp a Atella V., Rosati F.C., Rossi M.C.: Precautionary Saving and Health Risk. Evidence from the Italian households using a time series of cross sections, Rivista di Politica Economica, Maggio-Giugno 2006, pp b Atella V., Depalo D., Peracchi F. and Rossetti C., Drug compliance, co-payment and health outcomes: empirical evidence based on a panel of Italian patients, Health Economics, 2006; 15: pp c Atella V., Belotti F., Discussione a Assicurazione sanitaria di F. Barigozzi, Rivista di Politica Economica, Settembre-Ottobre, pp a Atella V., Marini G., Is health care expenditure really a luxury good? A reassessment and new evidence based on OECD data, forthcoming in Rivista di Politica Economica. 2008a Atella V., Centoni M., Cubadda G., Technology shocks, structural breaks and the effects on the business cycle, Economics Letters, Vol. 100,

9 2008b 2008c Atella V., Deb P.: Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation of a Simultaneous Equation Model with Count Data: An Application to the Demand of Physician Services, forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics. Atella V., Pace N., Vuri D.., Wages and Weight in Europe: Evidence using Quantile Regression Model, forthcoming in Human Biology and Economics.. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ON ITALIAN EDITED BOOKS 1995 Atella V.: Il quadro macroeconomico e la distribuzione del reddito (Macroeconomic scenario and Income distribution), in Competizione e Giustizia Sociale. Terzo rapporto CNEL su distribuzione e redistribuzione del reddito, edited by N. Rossi, Il Mulino. 1997a Atella V., Roberti P.: Il contenimento della spesa farmaceutica: l impatto sulle famiglie, in Il lavoro, l Europa e la sovranità sociale - IV rapporto CNEL sulla distribuzione e 1997b redistribuzione del reddito in Italia ( ), edited by N. Rossi, Il Mulino. Atella V., Roberti P.: Il contenimento della spesa farmaceutica: l impatto sulle imprese, in Il lavoro, l Europa e la sovranità sociale - IV rapporto CNEL sulla distribuzione e redistribuzione del reddito in Italia ( ), edited by N. Rossi, Il Mulino Atella V., Perali F., Rossi N.:, Riforma del welfare e giustizia sociale: il ruolo delle scale di equivalenza in Lo stato sociale in Italia: quadrare il cerchio edited by L. Paganetto, Il Mulino. 2000a 2000b 2000c 2000d 2000e Atella V., Parisi V.: Il quadro macroeconomico e le politiche economiche, Le politiche sociali in Italia ed in Europa. Coerenza e convergenza delle azioni - V Rapporto CNEL sulla distribuzione e redistribuzione del reddito, edited by V. Atella, CNEL, Roma. Atella V., Parisi V.: La convergenza delle politiche sociali nell area dell EURO, Le politiche sociali in Italia ed in Europa. Coerenza e convergenza delle azioni - V Rapporto CNEL sulla distribuzione e redistribuzione del reddito, edited by V. Atella, CNEL, Roma. Atella V., Parisi V.: Retribuzioni, costo del lavoro e distribuzione del reddito in Italia, Le politiche sociali in Italia ed in Europa. Coerenza e convergenza delle azioni - V Rapporto CNEL sulla distribuzione e redistribuzione del reddito, edited by V. Atella, CNEL, Roma. Atella V., Berliri C., Parisi V.: Gli effetti redistributivi della politica economica e sociale, Le politiche sociali in Italia ed in Europa. Coerenza e convergenza delle azioni - V Rapporto CNEL sulla distribuzione e redistribuzione del reddito, edited by V. Atella, CNEL, Roma. Atella V. e ENDEP Research Network: Il costo della salute in Europa: dove i pazienti sono più protetti?, Le politiche sociali in Italia ed in Europa. Coerenza e convergenza delle azioni - V Rapporto CNEL sulla distribuzione e redistribuzione del reddito, edited by V. Atella, CNEL, Roma Atella V., Atzeni G.F., Belvisi P.: Verso un cambio forte: quali effetti sugli investimenti delle imprese italiane?, in Le imprese esportatrici italiane, edited by Beniamino Quintieri, Il Mulino, Bologna. 2003a 2003b 2008a Atella V., Bernardi B., Rossi MC.: La spesa sanitaria privata e gli effetti redistributivi delle politiche sanitarie in Italia, Primo Rapporto sulla Sanità in Italia, edited by Atella V., Donia-Sofio A., Mennini F., e F. Spandonaro, Gruppo Italpromo Editore, Roma. Atella V., Bernardi B., Rossi MC.: Le previsioni di spesa sanitaria a livello nazionale e regionale: i risultati del modello econometrico del CEIS Tor Vergata, Primo Rapporto sulla Sanità in Italia, edited by Atella V., Donia-Sofio A., Mennini F., e F. Spandonaro, Gruppo Italpromo Editore, Roma. Atella V., Cincotti F.: Vincoli di Finanza pubblica, deficit regionali e inefficienze: le sfide del SSN, in Sanità e Finanza: una cultura in crescita, a cura di Fondazione Farmafactoring, Franco Angeli, Roma.

10 2008b 2008c 2008d Atella V., Carbonari L., Cincotti F.: Spesa sanitaria e deficit: un analisi a livello regionale, in La sanità in Italia, a cura di A. Pedone, Il Sole24ore, Roma. Atella V., Belotti F.: La spesa sanitaria privata in Italia: le evidenze empiriche, in La sanità in Italia, a cura di A. Pedone, Il Sole24ore, Roma. Atella V., Cincotti F.: La spesa sanitaria ed il quadro macroeconomico, in La Sanità in controluce, a cura di Fondazione Farmafactoring, Franco Angeli, Roma. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ON INTERNATIONAL EDITED BOOKS 1992 Atella V., On the existence of a price-research-export circuit in the Italian pharmaceutical industry: causality and co-integration of time-series in the period, in The prescription drug market, edited by Huttin C. and Bosanquet N., North Holland Atella V., Rosati F.C., Productivity Convergence in Sheltered and Unsheltered Sectors: Results form Selected OECD Countries, in Patterns of Trade, Competition and Trade Policies, edited by B. Quintieri, Avebury Atella V., Giampaoli S., Pilotto L., Vanuzzo D., The determinants and consequences of technological change in the health sector: the case of AMI patients in Italy, in Kessler McClellan: A Global Analysis of Technological Change in Health Care: Heart Attacks Kessler - McClellan,The University of Michigan Press. 2003a Atella V., Physicians prescription behavior and cost to the patients in Italy: first evidence based on Focus Group techniques and prescription data, in Patient charges and decisionmaking behaviors of consumers and physicians, edited by C. Huttin, IOS Press. 2003b Atella V., Brenner G., Hedvall M.B., Huttin C., Mechtler R., Noyce P. and E. Schafheutle, Reimbursement systems in ENDEP countries, in Patient charges and decision-making behaviors of consumers and physicians, edited by C. Huttin, IOS Press. 2003c Atella V., Hedvall M.B., Hoogerbrugge M., Huttin C., Noyce P., Schafheutle and Weiss M., Results from the conjoint study on physicians, in Patient charges and decision-making behaviors of consumers and physicians, edited by C. Huttin, IOS Press. 2003d Atella V., Brenner G., Hedvall M.B., Huttin C., Mechtler R., Noyce P. and E. Schafheutle, Patient survey: International hypertension results, in Patient charges and decision-making behaviors of consumers and physicians, edited by C. Huttin, IOS Press. 2003e Atella V. and the TECH Investigators, The relationship between health policies, medical technology trend, and outcomes: A perspective from the TECH Global Research Network, in What is Best and at What Cost: A Disease-Based Approach to Comparing Health Systems, OECD, Paris, France. 2003f Atella V., Menon M., Perali F., Estimation of Unit Values in Cross Sections without Quantity Information and Implications for Demand and Welfare Analysis, in Household Welfare and Poverty, edited by G. Ferrari e C. Dagum, Physica Verlag Springer. 2003g Arias C., Atella V., Castagnini R., Perali F, Estimation of the sharing rule between adults and children and related equivalence scales within a collective consumption framework, in Household Welfare and Poverty, edited by G. Ferrari e C. Dagum, Physica Verlag Springer. LIST OF BOOKS AND EDITED BOOKS 2000 Atella V. (edited by): Le politiche sociali in Italia ed in Europa. Coerenza e convergenza delle azioni - V Rapporto CNEL sulla distribuzione e ridistribuzione del reddito in Italia ed in Europa, CNEL, Roma Atella V., Quintieri B.: Domanda dei fattori, progresso tecnologico e politiche fiscali nell industria manifatturiera italiana negli anni 70 ed 80, Il Mulino, Bologna.

11 2002 Atella V. (edited by): VI Rapporto CNEL sulla distribuzione e ridistribuzione del reddito in Europa, CNEL, Roma Atella V., Donia-Sofio A., Mennini F., e F. Spandonaro (edited by): I Rapporto sulla Sanità in Italia, Gruppo Italpromo Editore, Roma Atella V., Donia-Sofio A., Mennini F., e F. Spandonaro (edited by): II Rapporto CEIS Sanità 2004: Sostenibilità, equità e ricerca dell efficienza, Gruppo Italpromo editore, Roma Atella V., Donia-Sofio A., Mennini F., e F. Spandonaro (edited by): III Rapporto CEIS Sanità 2005: Sette parole chiave del SSN, Gruppo Italpromo editore, Roma. LIST OF PAPERS SEND OUT FOR PUBLICATION 2008a 2008b 2008c Atella V., Rosati F.C., Rossi M.C.: Does child labour positively affects the probability to access health care services by children?, mimeo. Atella V., Bhattacharia J., Carbonari L.: Pharmaceutical industry, drug quality and regulation.evidence from US and Italy, mimeo Atella V., Belotti F., D Amico F.: Can better drug treatment improve long-run financial sustainability of NHS in Italy? The case of Statins, mimeo. WORK IN PROGRESS Atella V., Castagnini R., Perali F.: The sensitivity of demand elasticities estimates to endogeneity bias and IV correction, mimeo. Atella V., A. Holly, L. Gardiol, Huguenin J.: Asymmetric information in health care services utilization in Italy and Switzerland: the role of private insurance, mimeo. Atella V., Coggins J., Perali F., Aversion to inequality and political choices in Italy: are voters rational?, mimeo. Atella V., D Amico F.: The role of technical progress in cholesterol treatment: The case of Statins, mimeo. Atella V., Belotti F.: Measuring effectiveness of medical treatments, mimeo. Atella V., Porpiglia A..: White head power and black future scenarios: Is Italian Gerontocracy Harmful for Growth?, mimeo. REFEREES Giornale degli Economisti, Ricerche Economiche, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, Rivista di Politica Economica, Health Economics, Applied Economics, Social Science Medicine, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Disease Management & Health Outcomes, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, Labour, Politica Sanitaria, Pharmacoeconomics, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, Statistical Methods and Applications.