DEFAP Graduate School in Public Economics

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2 RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL & DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 2

3 MEMBERS Coordinator: 1. Silvia Marchesi (University of Milano Bicocca) Group Mmbr: Members: 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) 3

4 RESEARCH TOPICS: 1. ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY & INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION 2. FDI & INTERNATIONAL ENTERPRISES 3. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT 4

5 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, agricultural productivity and farm household well-being) and international migration and the labor market (in both origin and destination countries) Mariapia Mendola Anna de Paoli 5

6 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, and the link between internationalism and performance at the firm level Valeria Gattai Maria Luisa Mancusi 6

7 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 which are totally excluded from capital markets Emilio Colombo Silvia Marchesi Simone Moriconi Alessia Paccagnini 7

8 Emilio Colombo o (PhD in Economics, o cs, University of Southampton, 2001) Current position: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Milan Bicocca Research Interests: Applied macroeconomics, Exchange rates and exchange 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. Tirelli), European Journal of Political Economy, Exploring different views on exchange rate regime choice, (with F. Carmignani and P. Tirelli), 2008, Journal of International Money and Finance, 27,

9 Emilio Colombo PhD dissertation topics: Financial crises Exchange rate regimes Foreign debt PPP tests Health and economic crises 9

10 Anna de Paoli (PhD in Economics, University 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. 69(3). The effect of schooling on fertility, labor market participation and children s outcomes, evidence from Ecuador, DEAS Working Paper n. 2010/30,

11 Anna de Paoli PhD dissertation topics: International migration and the labor market Economics of Education and of the Family 11

12 Valeria a Gattai a (PhD in Economics, o cs, Bocconi University, 2007) Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Bicocca University. Research Interests: Foreign Direct Investment, Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, Firms Internationalisation and Performance Main Publications: Firms Intangible Assets and Multinational Activities: Full versus Shared Ownership, Journal of International Trade and deconomic Development, 19(4), , 2010 A Tale of Three Countries: Italian, Spanish and Swiss Manufacturing Operations in China, World Economy, 31(8), , 2008 Dissipation of Knowledge and the Boundaries of the Multinational Enterprise, (with C. Molteni), Review of World Economics /Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 143(1), 1-26,

13 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) 13

14 Maria a Luisa Mancusi (PhD in Economics, o cs, LSE, 2004) 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 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 Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity: A Cross-Country Country Cross- Sector Analysis Based on Patents and Citations, Journal of International Economics 76(2),

15 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 offshoring 15

16 Silvia Marchesi (PhD in Economics, University of Warwick, 2001) Current Position: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Milan Bicocca. Research Interests: Foreign Aid, Multilateral Financial Institutions, Sovereign Debt, Decentralization Main Publications: Did high debts distort loans and grants allocation to IDA countries? (with Alessandro Missale), World Development, 2013, 44, pp Read my lips: the role of information transmission in multilateral reform design (with Laura Sabani and Axel Dreher), Journal of International Economics, 2011, 84, pp IMF concern for reputation and conditional lending failure: theory and empirics (with Laura Sabani). Journal of Development Economics,

17 Silvia Marchesi PhD dissertation topics: Aid allocation and aid effectiveness Informal governance in International Organizations Decentralization in developing economies Debt restructurings 17

18 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, Economics of the Family Main Publications: Xenophobic attacks, migration intentions and networks: evidence from the South of Africa (with Guido Friebel and Juan M. Gallego), Journal of Population Economics, 26 (2): , What drives individual attitudes towards immigration in South Africa? (with Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda), Review of International Economics, 21 (2): , Mirtin Migration and ndtechnological hnl lchn Change inrrlh Rural Households: hld Cmplmnt Complements or Substitutes?, Journal of Development Economics, 85-(1-2) ,

19 Mariapia Mendola PhD dissertation i topics: 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 19

20 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, Wages and Firms Cohorts: Evidence from Central Europe, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 65(3), Moriconi S. and Y. Sato (2009), International Commodity Taxation in the Presence of Unemployment, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 93,

21 Simone Moriconi PhD dissertation topics: Tax and regulation competition International trade and the labour market Culture, international trade and migration Cultural spillovers (e.g. between migrants and natives) The Political Economy of Rating Agencies 21

22 Alessia Paccagnini (PhD in Economics, Bocconi University, 2009) Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Milan Bicocca. Research Interests: Econometrics, Bayesian Econometrics, Time-Series, Macroeconomics, Macroeconometrics, International Economics and International Macroeconomics Main Publications: On the Predictability of Time-Varying and DSGE Models (with Stelios Bekiros) (2012) Empirical Economics Does Trade Fosters Institutions? (with Marcella Nicolini), Review of Economics and Institutions Vol. 2 - no. 2, Spring Article 4 ISSN On the Statistic identification of DSGE models (with Agostino Consolo and Carlo A. Favero. Journal of Econometrics, pages , Volume 150, Issue 1, Pages (May 2009). 22

23 Alessia Paccagnini PhD dissertation i topics: Bayesian econometrics and time serie analysis Model validation and model comparison Forecasting Panel data estimation Applied econometrics to macroeconomics, international macroeconomics and international economics 23