ANDREA MARIO LAVEZZI CURRICULUM VITAE (Updated September 2013)

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1 PERSONAL Andrea Mario Lavezzi Born in Crema (CR) Italy, May 12, Citizenship: Italian ANDREA MARIO LAVEZZI CURRICULUM VITAE (Updated September 2013) AFFILIATION Associate Professor of Economics (tenured) Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, della Società e dello Sport Università di Palermo Piazza Bologni 8, Palermo, Italy Tel Fax [email protected] Web: DEGREES/RESEARCH ACTIVITY/EMPLOYMENT September 2006 present: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Palermo. January 2004 August 2006: Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Pisa. October December 2003: research fellow, Department of Economics, University of Pisa. May-November 1999: research assistance, Department of Economics, University of Siena. April 1999: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Siena. November 1994: B.Sc. (Laurea) in Economics, Bocconi University, Milan. VISITING POSITIONS Visiting scholar (invited), Department of Sociology, University of Oxford (UK), May 2014 Visiting scholar (Jemolo Fellow), Nuffield College, University of Oxford (UK), January-March 2011 Visiting scholar, University of California, Irvine (USA), April 2010 Visiting scholar, New School University, New York (USA), September-December 2002 Visiting student, Balliol College, University of Oxford (UK), January-June 1997 RESEARCH INTERESTS Growth Theory, Growth Empirics, Social Networks in Labor Markets, Economics of Organized Crime. PUBLICATIONS In journals: Organised Crime and the Economy: a Framework for Policy Prescriptions (2013) [35] forthcoming: Global Crime Transitions Out of Unemployment: the Role of Social Networks' Topolgy and Firms' Recruitment Strategies (2011) (with N. Meccheri) Metroeconomica 62, [23] Economic Structure and Vulnerability to Organised Crime: Evidence from Sicily (2008), Global Crime 9, [25] 1

2 "Productivity Polarization and Sectoral Dynamics in European Regions" (with D. Fiaschi) (2007), Journal of Macroeconomics 29, (based on [22]) "Appropriate Technology in a Solovian Nonlinear Growth Model" (with D. Fiaschi) (2007), Oxford Review of Economic Policy 23, [23]. "Nonlinear Economic Growth: Some Theory and Cross-country Evidence" (with D. Fiaschi) (2007), Journal of Development Economics 84, (revised version of [13]) On High-Skill and Low-Skill Equilibria: a Markov Chain Approach (2006) Metroeconomica. 57, (revised version of [9]) "Nonlinear Growth in a Long-Run Perspective" (with D. Fiaschi) (2004), Applied Economics Letters 11, [10] "Distribution Dynamics and Nonlinear Growth" (with D. Fiaschi) (2003), Journal of Economic Growth 8, [8] (revised version of [3]). "Smith, Marhall and Young on Division of Labor and Economic Growth (2003), European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 10, [6] "Investment-Productivity Dynamics and Distribution Dynamics in a Multisector Economy: Some Theory and an Application to Italian Regions" (2003), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 14, [7] (revised version of [2]). "Segmentazione del mercato del lavoro ed acquisizione di capitale umano: un'applicazione delle catene di Markov" (2001), (Labor Market Segmentation and Human Capital Acquisition: an Application of Markov Chains), Studi Economici 73, [4] (revised version of [1]). - IN BOOKS: Growth Volatility and the Structure of the Economy (2011), (with D. Fiaschi), in Frontiers of Economic Growth and Development, O. De La Grandville (Ed.), Emerald [34] Struttura economica e vulnerabilità al crimine organizzato in Sicilia (2008) (Economic Structure and Vulnerability to Organized Crime in Sicily), in A. La Spina (ed.), I costi della criminalità. Mafia ed estorsioni in Sicilia, Il Mulino. [24] A Note on Simmetry in Job Contact Networks (2007) (with N. Meccheri), in A. Consiglio (ed.), Artificial Markets Modeling, Springer (based on [20]). Growth Volatility Indices (2006) (with D. Fiaschi), in A. Namatame, T. Kaizouji, Y. Aruka (eds.), The Complex Networks of Economic Interactions. Essays in Agent-Based Economics and Econophysics, Springer. (previous version of [17]) Job Contact Networks, Inequality and Aggregate Output (2005) (with N. Meccheri), in N. Salvadori and R. Balducci (eds.), Innovation, Unemployment and Policy in the Theories of Growth and Distribution, Elgar. [20] (revised version of [18]) An Empirical Analysis of Growth Volatility: a Markov Chain Approach (2005) (with D. Fiaschi), in J. Leskow, M. Puchet, L. F. Punzo (eds.), New Tools of Economic Dynamics, Springer. [14] 2

3 "Division of Labour and Economic Growth: Paul Romer's Contribution in an Historical Perspective" (2003), in Salvadori, N. (ed.), Growth Theory: a 'Classical' Perspective, Elgar. [5] WORKING PAPERS On the Determinants of Distribution Dynamics (with D. Fiaschi and A. Parenti) (2013), Discussion Papers del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Pisa, n. 165 [40]. Submitted. An Empirical Analysis of Growth Regimes (with M. Marsili) (2010) [12] Productivity Dynamics across European Regions: the Effect of Structural and Cohesion Funds (with D. Fiaschi and A. Parenti) (2009), Discussion Papers del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Pisa, n. 84 [26] Counterfactual Distribution Dynamics Across European Regions (with D. Fiaschi and A. Parenti) (2009), Discussion Papers del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Pisa, n. 85 [28] Productivity Polarization and Sectoral Dynamics in European Regions (with D. Fiaschi) (2006) [22] Nonlinear Growth and the Productivity Slowdown (2005), Collana Studi e Ricerche, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Pisa, nr [19] Social Networks in Labor Markets: The Effects of Symmetry, Randomness and Exclusion on Output and Inequality (with N. Meccheri) (2005) [20] Growth and Convergence Across European Regions: an Empirical Investigation (with D. Fiaschi) (2005). [21] On the Determinants of Growth Volatility: a Markov Chain Approach (with D. Fiaschi) (2004). [17] "Complex Dynamics in a Simple Model of Economic Specialization" (2003), Discussion Papers del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Pisa, n. 2. [16] On the Determinants of Growth Volatility: a Nonparametric Approach (with D. Fiaschi) (2003), Discussion Papers del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università di Pisa, n. 25. [15] WORK IN PROGRESS Extortion, Firms' Size and the Sectoral Allocation of Capital (with L. Balletta) (2012) [36] (coming soon) In this paper we provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of extortion, which represents a typical activity of organized crime (see, e.g.,gambetta, 1993 and Konrad and Skaperdas,1998). In particular, we study extortion in the framework of a principal-agent model, where the criminal organization cannot perfectly observe firms' productivity. The theoretical predictions of the model are tested against a unique database on extortion in Sicily, the Italian region where the criminal organization commonly known as Cosa Nostra is active. The database merges data on amounts of extortion money analyzed by Asmundo and Lisciandra (2008) with firm-level data collected in Palermo for the firms identified as victims of extortion. This allows to compare the amounts of money extorted to measures of the size of the firm (capital stock, revenues, number of workers), as well as to measures of its profitability, allowing to assess the features of the Mafia "taxation". An Empirical Analysis of the Galor-Zeira Model (with M. Battisti and T. Fioroni) (2012) [33] (coming soon) In this paper we study an aspect of the growth model of Galor and Zeira (1993) model so far not analyzed in the literature: 3

4 the consequences of a decrease in the world interest rate. First of all, we show that in the theoretical model a decrease in the world interest rate can generate multiple equilibria, a fact that has a differential impact on within-country income inequality depending on the initial conditions of the country (poor/rich with high/low inequality), and that can increase world income polarization. We show that these empirical facts, i. e. a decrease in world interest rates and an increase in the world income polarization, characterize the period In the same period we show that, in accordance with the predictions of the model, inequality decreases in initially poor countries, while it increases in initially rich countries. However, the estimated relationships between inequality and human capital accumulation (the variable linking inequality to growth in the Galor- Zeira framework) differ between poor and rich countries, being significantly negative only in the latter group. Overall, we provide empirical support to the presence of a two-regime dynamics of inequality, human capital accumulation and growth, and highlight a factor so far not considered among the determinants of world income polarization, the world interest rate. Organized Crime and Poverty Traps (with T. Fioroni) (2013) [38] (coming soon) In this paper we study the relationship between poverty, the allocations of public funds and the presence of organized crime. The basic idea is that organized crime tries to distort the structure of public spending by corrupting or threating public officials who supervise the allocation of public funds. This paper differs from the existing literature on corruption in two ways. First, we explicitly introduce organized crime in a model of economic growth as a new cause of multiple equilibria and poverty traps. Second, we introduce organized crime as the agent corrupting the public officers (or the politicians), utilizing its power of intimidation in addition to its capacity to share the rents stemming from the corruption activity. On the Reasons to claim the Resistance to the Extortion Racket: an Empirical Assessment (with M. Battisti, T. Fioroni, L.Masserini a M. Pratesi) (2013) [39] (coming soon) In this paper we study the determinants of the decision of firms that decide to resist to the extortion racket. To this aim we built a unique database including data on the firms that joined the organization "Addiopizzo" of Palermo (Sicily), around 800 firms, and a control group of non-joiners. For all firms we gathered firm-level data (sector, age, balance sheets, etc.). Then we merged this database with census data on the location of the firm, in particular demographic, social and and economic data on the "census cell" in which it is located. This allows us to discriminate among the factors that may explain the decision to join an antiracket organization in a territory dominated by organized crime, between firm-specific and "geo-spatial" data. The Costs and Benefits of Resisting the Extortion Racket (with M. Battisti, T. Fioroni, L.Masserini a M. Pratesi) (2013) [30] In this paper we study the economic consequences for firms deciding to resist to the extortion racket. To this aim we built a unique database including data on the firms that joined the organization "Addiopizzo" of Palermo (Sicily), around 800 firms, and a control group of non-joiners. For joiners, we compare various indicators of economic performance (investments, profits, etc.) before and after the year in which they joined. To isolate the effect of the membership, which provides publicly available infomation on the choice, we consider the same dynamics for a control sample of non-joiners. Organized Crime as a Social Network (2010), [29] We build a unique dataset on connections among members of the Sicilian criminal organization, Cosa Nostra, from court evidence gathered in Palermo on recent trials. We highlight the topological and statistical characteristics of the network, providing a comparison with other social networks studied in the litereature as well as to other criminal networks (see, e. g. Morselli, 2008 and Mastrobuoni and Patacchini, 2012) CONFERENCES/SEMINARS Growth, Dynamics and Structural Change, Livorno (September 2013), presentation of [33] Applied Economics Workshop, Petralia Sottana (July 2013), presentation of [36] Workshop on Growth and Macro, University of Rimini (May 2013), presentation of [33], Workshop on Economic Growth, University of Palermo (Novembrer 2012), presentation of [33], University of Oxford (March 2012), presentation of [35] at Fonderia Oxford University of California, Irvine, USA, (April 2010), presentation of [12]. University of Palermo (March 2010), presentation of [12]. Poverty Traps: an Empirical and Theoretical Assessment, Naples (October 2009), presentation of [12]. International Workshop on Network Science (NETSCI09), Venice (June 2009), presentation of [23]. University of Naples, Parthenope (April 2009), presentation of [23]. Universiy of di Palermo (April 2009), presentation of [25]. Oxford University, UK, (February 2009), presentation of [25]. LUISS University, Rome (December 2008), presentation of [26]. "5th European Conference on Complex Systems", Jersualem, Israel (September 2008), presentation of [23]. University of Naples, Parthenope (July 2008), presentation of [26]. University of Palermo (February 2008), presentation of [23]. University of Cagliari (May 2007), presentation of [22]. 4

5 Second Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics, University of Bologna, Rimini Campus, (January 2007), presentation of [22]. Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade (DEGIT 2006), Jerusalem, Israel (June 2006), presentation of [19] Workshop on Spatial Econometrics and Statistics, Rome, (May 2006), presentation of [21]. Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Boston, USA (January 2006), presentation of [19]. 7thINFER Annual Conference. Regional Economics: New challenges for theory, empirics and policy, London, UK (October 2005), presentation of [21]. "11th International Conference of Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2005)", Washington D.C., USA (July 2005), presentation of [20]. Knowledge and Regional Economic Development, Barcelona, Spain, (June 2005), presentation of [21]. School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, (May 2005), presentation of [20]. University of Pisa (May 2005), presentation of [21]. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, (January 2005), presentation of [19]. First Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics, Università Cà Foscari, Venezia, (January 2005), presentation of [19]. Workshop on Industry and Labor Dynamics. The Agent-based Computational Economics Approach 2004), Moncalieri (TO), (December 2004), of [18]. University of Pisa (November 2004), of [19]. 45th Annual Meeting of "Società Italiana degli Economisti", Bologna, (October 2004), presentation of [18]. "New Economic Windows 2004: Complexity Hints for Economic Policy (NEW 2004)", Salerno, (September 2004), presentation of [18]. "Mathematical Models Applied to the Biological Sciences, Economics, and Complex Systems", Grosseto, (July 2004), presentation of [19]. "10th International Conference of Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2004)", Amsterdam, The Netherlands (July 2004), presentation of [19]. "Economic Growth and Distribution", Lucca, (June 2004), presentation of [19]. University of Palermo (April 2004), seminar on "Introduction to the Economics of Intellectual Property". University of Padua (March 2004), presentation of [18] at the "Workshop on Economic Growth and Distribution". School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK (March 2004), presentation of [13]. University of Milan - Bicocca (December 2003), presentation of [15]. University of Pisa (November 2003), presentation of [13]. "9th International Conference of Computing in Economics and Finance (CEF 2003)", Seattle, USA (July 2003), presentation of [16]. "Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA 2003)", Kiel, Germany (May 2003), presentation of [16]. "Third workshop on 'New Tools for Qualitative Analysis in Economic Dynamics'". CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico (October 2002), presentation of [14]. "Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA 2002)", Trieste, (May 2002), (poster) presentation of [9]. 'Innovation and Growth: New Challenges for the Regions'', Sophia-Antipolis, France (January 2002), presentation of [11]. 42nd Annual Meeting of "Società Italiana degli Economisti", Rome, Accademia Italiana dei Lincei (October 2001), presentation of [3]. 5

6 "Old and New Theories of Growth: an Assessment", Pisa, (October 2001), presentation of [6]. University of Teramo (May 2001), presentation of [3] at the workshop: "The role of Interactions in the Economy". University of Bologna (March 2001), presentation of [3]. University of Pisa (January 2001), presentation of [3]. University of Siena (December 2000), presentation of [3] at the: "First workshop on 'New Tools for Qualitative Analysis in Economic Dynamics'". Istituto di Studi Filosofici di Napoli, (November 2000), presentation of [6] at the workshop: "Classical Themes in Modern Growth Theories: First Results". "II Congreso Latinoamericano de Teoria Economica", San Luis, Argentina, (September 2000), presentation of [2]. University of Pisa (March 2000), presentation of [1]. RESEARCH NETWORKS Structural Change and Growth (PRIN 2009). Coordinator: Prof. Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa). Economic Growth: Social and Institutional Dynamics (COFIN 2005). Coordinator: Prof. Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa) Financial Fragility and Technological Progress with Heterogeneous Agents and Social Interaction: models, simulations and empirical analyses (COFIN 2004). Coordinator: Prof. Domenico Delli Gatti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan). "Growth and Income Distribution" (COFIN 2002). Coordinator: Prof. Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa). "New tools for the Qualitative Analysis of Economic Dynamics" (COFIN 2000). Coordinator: Prof. Lionello F. Punzo (University of Siena). Classical Themes in Modern Growth Theory (COFIN 1999). Coordinator: Prof. Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa). TEACHING - Undergraduate Economics (Microeconomics and Macroeconomics), Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza, University of Palermo, October 2006 May 2007, October 2007-May 2008, October 2008-May 2009, October-November 2009, 2010, 2011, Economics I (Microeconomics), Faculty of Economics, University of Pisa, February May Economics of Information, Corso di Laurea in Comunicazione pubblica, sociale e d'impresa, University of Pisa, February - May Economics (Macroeconomics), Corso di Laurea in Comunicazione pubblica, sociale e d'impresa, University of Pisa, November December Classes of Economics I (Microeconomics), Faculty of Economics, University of Pisa: February May 2004, February May 2005 and February May Teaching Assistance in Economics I, Faculty of Economics, University of Pisa: February - May 2001, February - May 2002, February - May 2003, February-May Graduate 6

7 "Applied Economic Growth", Internationl Doctoral Programme in Economics, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa: June 2013 Introduction to the Economics of Organized Crime 1. Master in Analysis, Prevention and Contrast of Organised Crime and Corruption, Univesity of Pisa, March 2012, March Master of Arts in Policies for Legality and Development in the Mediterranean Area, University of Palermo, July 2010 "Gender Budgeting", Master on "Women, Politics and Institutions", University of Palermo, November 2012 Cross-Country Convergence: from Theory to Empirics 1. Empirics of Regional Growth, Naples, November Ph. D in Economics, University of Siena, May "Introduction to the empirical analysis of economic growth" 1. Ph. D in Economics, University of Pisa, and Internationl Doctoral Programme in Economics, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa: October Ph. D in Economics, University of Pisa: July 2003, September 2004, October 2005, November 2006, February Introduction to Development Economics, Master of Arts in Human Rights and Conflict Management, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, March 2006 and March Introduction to Economic Theory, Master in Management dell'innovazione, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, November OTHER Referee for: Bulletin of Economic Research, Crime and Delinquency, Economica, Empirical Economics, Global Crime, History of Economic Ideas, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Journal of Macroeconomics, Metroeconomica, Review of Political Economy, Statistical Methods and Applications, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. Assistant editor: Metroeconomica ( ). Summer School in Econometrics: Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria (CIDE), Bertinoro (FO), September Summer school in: "Markov Models of Evolution, Growth and Adaptation in the Economy" (Prof Y. Kaniovski), University of Trento, September Summer School in Econometrics: Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria (CIDE), Bertinoro (FO), Italy, June "Econometric Issues in the Study of Inequality and Growth" (Prof. S. Durlauf); "Quantitative Macroeconomics: Analyzing Business Cycles" (Prof. M. Ravn). Participation to the "Thematic Institute of the Complex Systems Network of Excellence (EXYSTENCE) on Networks, Dynamics and Socio-Economics" (May 13 - June 1, 2002), ICTP Trieste, Italy. Summer School in Econometrics: Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria (CIDE), Bertinoro (FO), Italy, June "Applied Nonparametric Methods" (Prof. W. Härdle); "Econometrics of Structural Change and Threshold Models" (Prof. B. Hansen). Foreign languages: English: fluent; French: good; Spanish: elementary. 7