SERGIO ROSSI CURRICULUM VITAE April 2011 DATE OF BIRTH 2 December 1967 in Bellinzona (CH) LANGUAGES Italian (mother tongue) French (academic level) English (academic level) German (written and spoken) EDUCATION 1987 1991 University of Fribourg, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, licence 1991 1996 University of Fribourg, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, D.Phil. 1996 1997 London School of Economics, Department of Economics, post-doctoral year 1997 2000 University College London, Department of Economics, Ph.D. in Economics EARNED DEGREES 05.07.1991 Lic.rer.pol., University of Fribourg, overall grade summa cum laude 14.02.1997 Dr.rer.pol., University of Fribourg, overall grade summa cum laude 30.06.2000 Ph.D. in Economics, University College London PH.D. THESIS Price Indices, Monetary Analysis and Inflation, University College London, 2000, mimeo (Principal Supervisor: Professor Victoria Chick, University College London; Second Supervisor: Professor LORD Desai, London School of Economics) PRIZES AND AWARDS 1987 Prize Camera di commercio, dell industria e dell artigianato del Cantone Ticino, Prize Union Bank of Switzerland, and Buzi Prize for the best maturity at the Scuola cantonale superiore di commercio, Bellinzona 1991 Prize Fondation en faveur de l Institut des sciences économiques et sociales de l Université de Fribourg, for the best licence at the University of Fribourg (Faculty of economic and social sciences) 1997 Vigener Prize for the best doctoral thesis at the University of Fribourg (Faculty of economic and social sciences) 1998 1999 Overseas Research Students Award, by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom 1999 2000 Overseas Research Students Award, by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom ACADEMIC CAREER 1991 1996 Research and teaching assistant at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland 1996 1997 Researcher SNF at the London School of Economics 1997 2000 Researcher SNF at University College London
Curriculum vitae 2/6 1997 2000 Tutor and Internal Examiner at University College London for the courses of Money and Banking, and International Monetary Economics 2000 2001 Lecturer in Growth Theory (Master course, 84 hours/year) in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland 2000 2002 Lecturer in Monetary Theory and Policy (Master course, 84 hours/year) in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland 2000 2002 Maître-assistant in Political Economy in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland 2001 2002 Lecturer in Monetary Economics II (Master course, 24 hours/year) in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland 2001 2004 Lecturer in Economic Policy (Master course, 26 hours/year) in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland 2001 2007 Professor of Economics (40 hours/year) at the Centre for Banking Studies, Lugano, for the Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA) certificate and for the Diplôme fédéral d expert en finance et investissement 2002 2005 Maître d enseignement et de recherche in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (teaching load: Macroeconomics I+II (Bachelor course, 112 hours/year), Monetary Policy I+II (Master course, 84 hours/year)) 2004 2007 Lecturer in Monetary economics and institutions (36 hours/year, Master in Economics, Institutions and Public Policies) in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland 2005 Guest Professor of Monetary Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Chemnitz (Germany): Commerzbank-Stiftungsgastprofessur in Monetärer Ökonomie (April May 2005) 2005 2008 Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (teaching load: Macroeconomics I+II (Bachelor course, 112 hours/year), Monetary Theory and Policy I-IV (Master course, 84 hours/year)) 2008 Full Professor of Economics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (teaching load: Macroeconomics I+II (Bachelor course, 112 hours/year), Monetary Theory and Policy I-IV (Master course, 84 hours/year)) PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY LISTINGS Association pour le Développement des Études Keynésiennes (ADEK) Association Internationale des Économistes de Langue Française (AIELF) Associazione Italiana Storici del Pensiero Economico (AISPE) Eastern Economic Association (EEA) European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) REFEREEING ACTIVITIES Actualité économique Cambridge Journal of Economics Economics European Journal of Economic and Social Systems History of Economic Ideas International Encyclopedia of Public Policy International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance International Journal of Political Economy International Review of Applied Economics Intervention: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies Journal of Economic Studies Metroeconomica
Curriculum vitae 3/6 Review of Political Economy Rivista italiana degli economist Spatial Economic Analysis Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Studi e Note di Economia Edward Elgar Routledge RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS 09.02.2011 Communication to the 8th Conference of the Carlo Cattaneo Association on Quale Ticino nel 2030, Lugano (Switzerland): Quale futuro per l economia ticinese fra Stato, fisco e mercato? 22.10.2010 Communication to the 9th International meeting on Ethics, Finance and Responsibility on The Challenges to Teach Economics, Finance, and Business Administration After the Crisis, Observatoire de la Finance (Geneva, Switzerland): Rethinking the teaching of economics 01.10.2010 Communication to the conference on Can It Happen Again? Sustainable Policies to Mitigate and Prevent Financial Crises, University of Macerata (Italy): Can it happen again? Structural policies to avert further systemic crises 28.09.2010 Communication to the conference organized by the Berne Chapter of the Pro Ticino on Introduzione delle nuove disposizioni in materia di scambio d informazioni (art. 26 OCSE) e conseguenze, University of Berne (Switzerland): Art. 26 modello OCSE per le CDI: conseguenze e indirizzi strategici per la piazza finanziaria ticinese 15.09.2010 Communication au séminaire de l Autorité fédérale de surveillance des marchés financiers (FINMA), Berne (Suisse): Money, banks, and payments: the structural factors of financial instability and systemic crises 14.06.2010 Communication à l Avenir-Suisse Event sur Too big to fail : rischi e rimedi, Lugano (Suisse) 24.05.2010 Communication to the International Monetary Economics Seminar at the University of Bergamo (Italy): Elementi strutturali per la riforma dell architettura monetaria e finanziaria internazionale ispirati dal piano Keynes 20.05.2010 Communication to the FINMA Workshop Perspektiven der Finanzmarktregulierung (Berne, Switzerland): The 2007-10 economic crisis: also a crisis of economics? 16.04.2010 Communication to the conference on Monetary Analysis (Grenoble, France): Monnaie, banques et paiements: les éléments structurels de la crise économique 11.12.2009 Communication to the conference on The Financial and Monetary Crisis: Rethinking Economic Policies and Redefining the Architecture and Governance of International Finance (Dijon, France): The 2007 9 financial crisis: an endogenousmoney view 26.11.2009 Communication to the Applied economics seminar at the University of Rennes 1 (France): The 2007 9 financial crisis: an endogenous-money view 30.10.2009 Communication to the conference The World Economy in Crisis: The Return of Keynesianism? (Berlin, Germany): Global imbalances and international monetary disorder: supranational money as a means to avoid another global crisis 07.10.2009 Communication to the International Conference of the Money and Finance Research Group (MoFiR) on The Changing Geography of Money, Banking and Finance in a Post-Crisis World (Ancona, Italy): International payment finality requires a supranational central-bank money: reforming the international monetary architecture in the spirit of Keynes 03.06.2009 Communication to the Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (Florence, Italy) on Financial Crises in the Economists View : The 2007 8 financial crisis: an endogenous-money view
Curriculum vitae 4/6 08.01.2009 Communication to the American College Program Survey of International Organizations 2009 (Fribourg, Switzerland): Local currencies and global imbalances: the roots of the current economic crisis 31.10.2008 Communication to the conference Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations: Whither Mainstream Economics? (Berlin, Germany): Mainstream economics and the macroeconomic foundations of macroeconomics 22.05.2008 Communication to the 18 th conference of the International Trade and Finance Association (Lisbon, Portugal): International capital flows within a single currency area: lessons from the European Monetary Union 24.04.2008 Communication to the Conference on John Maynard Keynes 125 Years: What Have We Learned? (Roskilde, Denmark): Exchange rate fluctuations as a result of international monetary disorder: lessons from the post-bretton Woods regime in the spirit of Keynes 21.03.2008 Communication to the Conference on Humanism and religion in the history of economic thought (Treviso, Italy): Ontologia del denaro: moneta e valore da una prospettiva interdisciplinare 28.02.2008 Communication to the conference on Probleme der internationalen Währungsordnung und der internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, Berlin (Germany): Wechselkursschwankungen als Ergebnis internationaler Währungsunordnung 30.11.2007 Communication to the Conference on Post-Keynesian Economic Policy (Dijon, France): Monetary policy without reserve requirements: central bank money as means of final payment on the interbank market 29.09.2007 Communication to the Bi-annual Canada/US Eastern Border workshop on Post- Keynesian Perspectives on Monetary Policy (Montreal, Canada): Administered interest rates and interbank settlements: monetary policy in a world with zero reserve requirements 06.08.2007 Communication to the American College Program Survey of International Organizations 2007 (Fribourg, Switzerland): National versus supranational currency, settlement systems and international capital flows 22.05.2007 Communication to the Conference of the International Association of Frenchspeaking Economists (Warsaw, Poland): La libre circulation des capitaux au sein de la zone euro: enjeux et problèmes 24.04.2007 Communication to the First Post Keynesian Circuitist Workshop, Université Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble (France): Monetary circuit theory and money emissions 23.03.2007 Communication to the Eight Mediterranean Research Meeting, European University Institute, Montecatini Terme (Italy): A common currency for Middle Eastern and North African countries? Lessons from the European Monetary Union 09.03.2007 Public lecture in the Department of Economics at the University Ca Foscari of Venice (Italy): Emissione e circuito monetario: un analisi critica 25.02.2007 Communication to the Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference (New York, USA): Aim and scope of European monetary policy: a critical assessment 27.10.2006 Communication to the workshop on European Integration in Crisis (Berlin, Germany): International capital flows within a single currency area: the deflationary case of the European Monetary Union 27.07.2006 Communication to the American College Program Survey of International Organizations 2006 (Fribourg, Switzerland): National versus supranational currency, settlement systems and international capital flows 07.07.2006 Communication to the Conference on Developments in Economic Theory and Policy (Bilbao, Spain): Inflation targeting: a conceptual appraisal 17.06.2006 Communication to the Conference on Theory and Practice of Economic Policy: Tradition and Change (Padova, Italy): The theory and practice of income distribution: a monetary circuit analysis 06.05.2006 Communication to the multidisciplinary workshop on The Nature of Money (Sudbury, Canada): International money: where do we stand?
Curriculum vitae 5/6 04.03.2006 Communication to the Conference on Euroland: Global Player or Global Drag?, Franklin College Switzerland (Lugano): The role of the euro in the international monetary arena: present and prospects 03.12.2005 Communication to the Conference on The Political Economy of Governance (Dijon, France): Inflation targeting and monetary policy governance: the case of the European Central Bank 29.10.2005 Communication to the workshop on European Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (Berlin, Germany): The monetary policy strategy of the ECB: would inflation targeting be enough for a successful stabilisation policy? 07.10.2005 Communication to the Conference on European Territorial Cohesion and Sustainable Development: Convergence and Competitiveness (Benevento, Italy): European monetary integration: convergence, divergence, or exclusion? 08.07.2005 Communication to the Conference on Developments in Economic Theory and Policy (Bilbao, Spain): Making the European Central Bank more democratic and accountable 27.05.2005 Communication to the 9 th International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance (Crete, Greece): The deregulation of central banking: towards an international market for good monetary policy 27.04.2005 Communication to the Research workshop of the Department of Economics at the Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany): Deregulation of central banking 30.10.2004 Communication to the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy 2004 Conference (Crete, Greece): Endogenous money: the evolutionary versus ontological views 15.07.2004 Communication to the Conference on Developments in Economic Theory and Policy, Institutions and European Integration (Bilbao, Spain): Cross-border transactions and financial stability: the importance of an international settlement agent 18.03.2004 Communication to the annual conference of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Basel, Switzerland): The deregulation of central banking: towards an international market for good monetary policy 28.02.2004 Communication to the annual conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Treviso, Italy): The monetary-policy relevance of an international settlement institution 05.12.2003 Communication to the Conference on The Monetary Theory of Production: Tradition and Perspectives (Benevento, Italy): Central banking in a monetary theory of production: the economics of payment finality from a circular flow perspective 08.11.2003 Communication to the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy 2003 Conference (Maastricht, Netherlands): Monetary integration and policy making in an expanding EU 25.10.2003 Communication to the workshop on Controversies on Fiscal Policy (Berlin, Germany): Steuerwettbewerb zwischen Kantonen: eine theoretische und empirische Analyse für die Schweiz 19.09.2003 Communication to the Canada/US Eastern Border workshop on Central Banking in the Modern World (Ottawa, Canada): The monetary policy role of central banks in modern settlement systems 05.09.2003 Communication to the British Association for the History of Economic Thought Conference (Leeds, UK): Money and credit in Keynes s proposal for an International Clearing Union 27.05.2003 Communication to the Conference of the International Association of Frenchspeaking Economists (Athens, Greece): Les problèmes monétaires liés à l élargissement de l Union européenne 12.05.2003 Communication to the SAIS ICSEAD workshop at the Johns Hopkins University (Bologna, Italy): The enlargement of the euro area: what lessons can be learned from EMU?
Curriculum vitae 6/6 21.03.2003 Communication to the annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Berne): Tax competition between subnational governments: theoretical and policy issues 21.02.2003 Communication to the Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference 2003 (New York, USA): The monetary problems of the EU enlargement process 28.01.2003 Public lecture in the Department of Economics at the University of Bergamo (Italy): Moneta, credito e produzione 27.01.2003 Communication to the Monetary Economics Workshop in the Department of Economics at the University of Bergamo (Italy): L euro e il processo di allargamento dell Unione europea: quali lezioni si possono trarre dall Unione monetaria europea? 16.11.2002 Communication to the Conference on Economic Policies: Perspectives from the Keynesian Heterodoxy, University of Burgundy at Dijon (France): 'EMU and EU enlargement: what have we learned? 19.11.1998 Communication to the Money and Banking Seminar in the Department of Economics at University College London (United Kingdom): Money and the price level: measurement problems in inflation analysis 19.03.1998 Public lecture in the Department of Economics at University College London (United Kingdom): Cooking the books to meet the Maastricht criteria: creative accounting and the single currency 07.11.1997 Communication to the Annual Postgraduate Economics Conference at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom): A bookkeeping analysis of a monetary economy: some basic theoretical elements 20.03.1997 Communication to the Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Lucerne): Les problèmes de définition et de cohérence des règles budgétaires de Maastricht 27.05.1994 Communication to the Conference of the International Association of Frenchspeaking Economists (Luxembourg): Le problème d'une monnaie européenne parallèle OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCES 2000 2004 External examiner in Political Economy for the courses for business officers by the Camera di commercio, dell industria e dell artigianato del Cantone Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland 2002 Expert in Political Economy for the colleges of Bellinzona, Locarno and Lugano 2, Switzerland 2002 2005 Member of the international research group on Software technologies, financial innovations and the evolution of payment systems (Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Riccardo Realfonzo, Università del Sannio, Italy) 2004 2007 Lecturer in Macroeconomics for the Executive Master in Business Administration (EMBA) of the International Institute of Management in Technologies (IIMT), Fribourg, Switzerland 2004 Lecturer in Monetary Macroeconomics in the Ph.D. programme of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Lugano, Switzerland 2005 Lecturer in Economic Policy for the Executive Master in Business Administration of the Verbandsmanagement Institut (VMI), Fribourg