Andrea F. Presbitero DoB: 24 April 1977 Nationality: Italian Università Politecnica delle Marche Phone: (39) 071 2207085 Department of Economics Mobile: (39) 334 1719499 Piazzale Martelli, 8 Fax: (39) 071 2207201 60121 Ancona (Italy) a.presbitero@univpm.it www.dea.unian.it/presbitero/ andreapresbitero@yahoo.it Education Ph.D. Economics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, (Italy), 2006 M.A. in Development Economics with distinction, University of Sussex (U.K.), 2004 Summer School of Econometrics, CIDE, University of Bologna (Italy), 2004 M.Sc. in Political Economy, University of Ancona (Italy), 2003 BA in Economics Cum Laude, Università del Piemonte Orientale (Italy), 2002 Research interests Development Economics, International Economics, Debt sustainability, Banking and Regional Development. Scholarships andreferee for the Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Savings and De- Honors velopment, Economic Systems, Rivista di Politica Economica and Rivista Italiana degli Economisti Member of the Programme Committee for the Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), 2007 Full Scholarship for postgraduate studies (2002 2005), Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy). Member of a State-funded project on Economic Growth: Institutional and Social Dynamics (National coordinator: Prof. N. Salvadori), 2006 2007. Affiliated to the Center for Macroeconomics & Finance Research (CeMaFiR, Milan) and to the Money and Finance Research group (MoFiR, Ancona, Italy). Working Experience Assistant Professor in Economics November 2007 Department of Economics - Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy) Research Fellow Feb. 2006 Oct. 2007 Department of Economics - Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy) Visiting Fellow Dec. 2006 Jan. 2007 Philippe Van Kerm IRISS-C/I at CEPS/INSTEAD Research project about income inequality and educational choices, (co-)funded
by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programmes Research Infrastructures Action Research Assistant 2005 Alberto Zazzaro Università Politecnica delle Marche Research contract on Banking and Regional Development in Italy Summer Intern Summer 2005 Jean-Francois Perrault The World Bank PRMED Data gathering and analysis of domestic debt in LICs as background for the preparation of World Bank-IMF reports on debt relief. Consultant Feb. Apr. 2005 Shonar Lala The World Bank OED STC assignment on External debt in Low-Income Countries. Literature review as background for the IEG Report Debt Relief for the Poorest, World Bank, 2006 Publications in peer reviewed journals Bank Size or Distance: What Hampers Innovation Adoption by SMEs?, Journal of Economic Geography, forthcoming, (with P. Alessandrini and A. Zazzaro). Individual Earnings, International Outsourcing and Technological Change. Evidence from Italy, International Economic Journal, forthcoming, (with C. Broccolini, A. Lo Turco and S. Staffolani). Debt Relief Effectiveness and Institution Building, Development Policy Review, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pp. 529-559, September 2009. Global Banking and Local Markets: A National Perspective, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.173-192, July 2009 (with P. Alessandrini and A. Zazzaro). Banks, Distances and Firms Financing Constraints, Review of Finance, Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp. 261-307, April 2009 (with P. Alessandrini and A. Zazzaro). La crisi 2007-?: fatti, ragioni e possibili conseguenze, Economia Marche - Review of Regional Studies, 2009(1): 9-34 The Debt-Growth Nexus: a Reassessment, Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 2, 2008-30, October 7, 2008. External Debt Sustainability and Domestic Debt in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, Vol. 115, No. 2, pp. 187-213, 2007 (with M. Arnone). The Debt-Growth Nexus: a Dynamic Panel Data Estimation, Rivista Italiana
degli Economisti, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 417-461, December 2006. Institutions and Geography as Sources of Economic Development, Journal of International Development, Vol. 18, Issue 3, April 2006, pp. 351-378. Book Chapters, Geographical Organization of Banking Systems and Innovation Diffusion Proceedings and (with P. Alessandrini and A. Zazzaro), in P. Alessandrini, M. Fratianni and A. Other Zazzaro (ed.) The Changing Geography of Banking and Finance, Springer, Publications 2009. The Debt-Growth Nexus: a Reassessment, Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Kiel 2006, Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics. Banks and Distances: Financing Constraints to Firms, in D. Evanoff (ed.), Proceedings of the 43 rd Annual Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Federal Reserve Bank, 2007, (with P. Alessandrini and A. Zazzaro). La nuova geografia bancaria nel Mezzogiorno: la necessità di un approccio sistemico ( The new geography of banking in the Mezzogiorno, with P. Alessandrini), in P. Busetta (ed.) Il valore dell autonomia: il caso del credito in Sicilia, forthcoming Offshoring, cambiamento tecnologico e disparit salariali in Italia (Offshoring, technological change and wage inequality in Italy, with C. Brocclini, A. Lo Turco and S. Staffolani), in L. Cappellari, P.Naticchioni an S.Staffolani (ed.) Pi uguali o pi disuguali?, Carocci, Rome, 2009. Confidi, piccole imprese e banche: un analisi empirica ( Mutual Loan-Guarantee societies, small firms and banks: an empirical investigation, with G. Busetta), in A. Zazzaro (ed.) I vincoli finanziari alla crescita delle imprese, Carocci, Rome, 2008. Banche e imprese nei distretti industriali ( Bank and firms in industrial districts, with P. Alessandrini and A. Zazzaro), in A. Zazzaro (ed.) I vincoli finanziari alla crescita delle imprese, Carocci, Rome, 2008. Il Mezzogiorno e le banche nell era Draghi ( The Mezzogiorno and the banking system waiting for new times, with A. Zazzaro), Orizzonti Sicilia n 72. Riduzione del debito e sviluppo economico ( Debt Relief and Economic Development ), Il Ponte, January 2006. Debt in Developing Countries: Does Debt Relief Promote Growth? Ph.D. Dissertation
Working Papers The 2008-2009 Financial Crisis and the HIPCs: Another Debt Crisis?, MoFiR working paper n29, September 2009 Competition and Relationship Lending: Friends or Foes?, MoFiR working paper n13, January 2009 (with A. Zazzaro). External Debt Sustainability: An Extended Framework for HIPCs?, Catholic University of Piacenza Working Paper n 33 (with M. Arnone and L. Bandiera). Revised version: Debt Sustainability Framework in HIPCs: A Critical Assessment and Suggested Improvements (May 2008). Sostenibilità e riduzione del debito estero per i paesi poveri ( External Debt Sustainability and Debt Reduction in Poor Countries, with M. Arnone), Catholic University of Piacenza Working Paper n 27. Work in Progress Debt Relief Initiatives: Policy Design and Outcome, draft book to be published by Ashgate in 2010 (with M. Arnone) Liquidity constraints, Entrepreneurship and Banking (with M. Bratti and G. De Blasio). Delocalization and occupational mix (with M. Richiardi) Financing Entrepreneurship: a cross country analysis (with A. Zazzaro) Conference Presentations University of Rome. XVIII International Tor Vergata Conference on Banking and Finance, Rome (Italy), 2 4 December 2009. International Monetary Fund. Seminar on External debt and growth in developing countries, Washington DC, 27 March 2009. The World Bank. Seminar on External debt and growth in developing countries, Washington DC, 26 March 2009. Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. Innovation, Internationalization and Global Labor Markets, Torino, 26-27 February 2009. CIdE (Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria). Third Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics, Ancona, 30-31 January 2009. University of Amsterdam. EALE (European Association of Labour Economists) Conference 2008, Amsterdam, 18 20 September 2008. University of Pisa. The Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution, Lucca (Italy), 10 12 December 2007. University of Rome. XVI International Tor Vergata Conference on Banking
and Finance, Rome (Italy), 5 7 December 2007. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. 43 rd Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago, 16 18 May 2007. Catholic University of Milan, 3 rd Workshop on Economic Policy and Open Economy Macro, Piacenza (Italy), 12 13 April 2007. Catholic University of Milan, Workshop on The Evolution of Inequalities in the Italian Labour Market, Milan (Italy), 1 2 February 2007. University of Rome. XV International Tor Vergata Conference on Banking and Finance, Rome (Italy), 13 15 December 2006. University of Ancona. The Changing Geography of Banking, Ancona (Italy), 22 23 September 2006. AIEL - Italian Association of Labour Economist. XXI National Conference of Labour Economics, Udine (Italy), 14 15 September 2006. University of Hannover. Annual Conference of the Verein fur Socialpolitik: Research Committee Development Economics, Berlin, 2 3 June 2006. XIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Seville, Spain, 26 28 May 2006. Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara. 2 nd Workshop on Economic Policy and Open Economy Macro, 19 20 May 2006. SIE - Italian Society of Economists. XLVI annual meeting. 21 22 October 2005, University Federico II, Naples (Italy). University of Turin, 3 rd Ph.d Conference in Economics, 8 10 September 2005, Turin (Italy) Catholic University of Milan, Workshop on Economic Policy and Open Economy Macro, 21 22 May 2005, Milan (Italy) University of Pavia, 2 nd PhD Conference in Economics, 23 25 September 2004, Pavia (Italy) Computer Skills Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications, L A TEX, Econometric and statistical software (STATA, SPSS), Mathcad. Languages Teaching Experience Italian: native; English: fluent; French: fair Development Finance (Undergraduate), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Winter 2009.
International Finance (Postgraduate), Master in Finance, ISTAO (Ancona, Italy), 2009. International Monetary Economics (Undergraduate), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Spring 2009. Development Economics (Undergraduate), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Autumn 2007. Teaching Assistant, Economics I (Undergraduate), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Spring 2006 and 2007. Lectures on Banking and Finance at postgraduate level (Ph.D.), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Spring 2006, 2007 and 2008. Master in Economics and Finance: Lectures on: Debt Relief for the Poorest, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale - Novara (Italy), 2005 2008. Master in Microfinance: Lectures on finance and growth, University of Bergamo (Italy) - CIPSI, 2005, 2008 and 2010. Lectures on: Economic Development: the Role of Institutions and Geography, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale - Novara (Italy), 2004 and 2005. Other working and research experience ISTAO Ancona, Italy Lecturer 2006 2008 Bank employees training: lessons on banking and finance. CNA Ancona, Italy Research assistant 2006 Member of a research project aimed at evaluating the role and the impact of Mutual Loan-Guarantee Societies in Italian local credit markets. RCS and Il Mulino Ancona, Italy Consultant 2003 2004 Short time contracts for the updating of undergraduate economics textbook (O. Blanchard: Macroeconomics and D. Salvatore: International Economics) for Italian Publishers. Università del Piemonte Orientale Novara, Italy Research assistant 2002 Short term contract (six months) with the Department of Economics for a research project on Italian industrial clusters. Ref.Irs (Research on Economics and Milan, Italy Finance) Intern 2000 Full time Summer Internship at the Stock Market Department. Participation in projects on internet and finance and on the analysis of the Italian mutual funds market.
Other Activities Volunteering activity: blood donation and homeless food server. Referees Prof. Michele Fratianni, Professor of Economics, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business and Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy), Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. Phone: +1 8l2-855-3360. E-mail: fratiann@indiana.edu Prof. Robert K. Eastwood, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sussex, Department of Economics, Brighton, BN1 9RH, UK. Phone: +44 1273-678889. E-mail: R.K.Eastwood@sussex.ac.uk Prof. Luca Papi, Professor of Economics and General Director of the Central Bank of San Marino, Universit Politecnica delle Marche, Department of Economics, Piazzale Martelli 8, 60121 Ancona, Italy. Phone: +39 071-2207085. E ail: lpapi@bcsm.sm Prof. Alberto Zazzaro, Professor of Economics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Department of Economics, Piazzale Martelli 8, 60121 Ancona, Italy. Phone: +39 071-2207086. E-mail: a.zazzaro@univpm.it