Europass Curriculum Vitae Personal information First name / Surname Mara Giua Permanent Address Via Tempio 50, 07020 Aglientu (OT), Italy Current Address Via Gallia, 202 Roma (RM), Italy Telephone +393291471575; +39079654204 E-mail mara.giua@uniroma3.it mara.giua@gmail.com Nationality Italian Date of birth 1985/08/13 Gender female Work experience From February 2014 to date Post-Doc Researcher Post-doctoral research project on Development Policies of the European Union: impact and conditioning factors. Econometric estimation of the impact of the EU Cohesion Policy through a micro level (financed project, enterprises performances) counterfactual analysis. Department of Economics, University of Roma Tre. Via S. D Amico, 77, 00145 Rome. University Research Institution From January 2014 to date Teaching assistant Economics of Italian Development; Media Economics Department of Communication, University of Roma Tre. Via Ostiense, 234, 00146 Rome. University From November 2013 to date Researcher Research project on the impact evaluation of European Cohesion Policy. The analysis applies counterfactual methods (Regression Discontinuity) to evaluate the impact of the EU Cohesion Policy on the most disadvantaged Union areas, focusing on Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. The output of the analysis is a SERC working paper to be submitted to an academic journal. SERC Spatial Economic Research Centre (London School of Economics), Houghton Street, London - UK Research Centre From July 2013 to date Junior economist Member of the working group of the DPS project OpenCoesione, an innovative initiative aiming at
supporting the awareness of citizens on Cohesion Policy fostering its effectiveness. Analysis of EU Cohesion policy through the data of the projects monitored by the Unitarian System of Monitoring and published on the OpenCoesione web portal. Main key-analysis: Territory, Program, Policy area and kind of grants. Periodic outputs are Pillole di OpenCoesione, short and rigorous texts shedding light on specific aspects and trends related to the Policy, targeted to the whole public and to practitioners. Department for Economic Development and Cohesion, Largo di Brazzà, Rome Public Administration October December 2013 Component of the OpenCoesione team Course in the SSAI school (Scuola Superiore Amministrazione Interno) on EU Cohesion Policy for the territorial development SSAI, via Vaientana, Roma Public Administration From April 2013 to July 2013 Intern at OECD Collaboration to the project Assessment of the Small Business Act by defining an evaluation framework for a subnational level evaluation of the Policy; collaboration to the organization of Capacity Building seminars; general activities of the Centre Trento OECD Leed Centre, vicolo san Marco 1, Trento (TN) International Institution From January 2011 to May 2011 Research Consultant Collaboration on the project financed by the European Parliament The CAP in the EU Budget Simulation of different quantitative scenarios for the analysis of the EU budget. Methodological and empirical analysis, data elaboration. Analysis of the relation between CAP and Cohesion Policy. The output is the Study presented to the EU Parliament, The CAP in the EU Budget: an analysis about possible scenarios for EU policies after 2013. INEA - National Institute of Agricultural Economics Research Research institute From September 2010 to June 2011 Research Assistant Collaboration project on Atlas of enterprises in the
province of Rome. Construction of a territorial database (municipality level) for the spatial analysis of the relation between the territory and the business universe in the province of Rome. Definition of spatial indicators and of an ARC GIS project to analyze the socio-economic context and the economic performance of the Province. Textual elaboration of the study. The Output is the Imprese e Territorio, per un atlante delle imprese della provincia di Roma published by CROMA in 2011. CROMA - Centre for the Analysis of Rome University of Rome Tre University Research Institution From May 2010 to November 2010 Research Assistant Project of National Relevance founded by the Italian Ministry of Education (PRIN): European Union policies, economic and trade integration process. Definition of a database on the expenditure of the European Structural Funds during the period 2000-2010 (source of data is the MONIT database). The database is at municipality level for all the Italian regions and contains also a series of territorial variables. Development of synthetic indicators (PCA analysis) of structural disadvantage to identify the structural disadvantage of the area and their ability to drive the allocation of funds. Econometric analysis of the relationships between local structural conditions and allocative structure of EU funds for regional and rural development. University of Roma Tre - Department of Economics University From December 2009 to July 2010 Intern Research project on Integration between EU rural development policies and regional policies. Analysis of regional Programs financed by the EU in the 2007-2013 programming period (POR ESF, ERDF and the Rural Development Programs) in a Placebased key in order to study relations and synergeticdisplacement aspects of the policies. Ministry of Economic Development, Department for Economic Development and Cohesion - UVAL, 26, Liguria street, Rome Public Administration Education and training From September 2011 to March 2013 Name and type of organisation providing London School of Economics and Political Science.
Department of Geography and Environment Houghton Street, London UK. Visiting researcher Courses attended: Econometrics; Causality analysis; Economic Policy Analysis; Local Economic Development; Spatial Econometrics; Political Economy; Regional Economics; Development Economics. Public lectures, cycles of Urban and Regional Economics seminars. Research: working papers (titles follow) From January 2011 to date Name and type of organisation providing University of Roma Tre - Department of Economics. Phd Course in Economics and quantitative methods 3 years full scholarship Supervisors Dr. Riccardo Crescenzi - Prof. Fabrizio De Filippis - Prof. Guido Fabiani Subjects: Inferential statistics, Micro econometrics, Advanced Math, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Development Economics and Innovation, STATA, Economic Theory, Network analysis, SAS, R, GIS. Research: impact evaluation and conditioning factors of the EU Cohesion Policy. September 2012 Name and type of organisation providing Centro Universitario di Econometria (CIDE) and Italian Econometric Association (SIdE). 1 weeks Summer School Course coordinator Prof. E. Battistin Policy Evaluation: from reduced form to structural form analysis. (causality analysis; natural experiments) July 2012 Name and type of organisation providing European Regional Science Association (ERSA). Conference - Summer School Course coordinator Dr. J. Lundberg Fiscal Federalism; Policy Evaluation; Spatial Econometrics; European regional Economics From July 2011 to September 2011 Name and type of organisation providing Centro Universitario di Econometria (CIDE) and Italian Econometric Association (SIdE). 3 weeks Summer School Course coordinator Prof. Giorgio Calzolari; Prof. Erich Battistin Introductory Econometrics and Time Series; Panel Data Econometrics From September 2007 to April 2010 Name and type of organisation providing University of Roma Tre - Faculty of Economics. Master (Italian laurea specialistica ) in Development Economics of Territory and Environment Economics and land management, Agricultural Economics, Development Economics, Regional Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Public Economics
Title of qualification awarded Level in national or international classification and Fiscal Federalism, Urban Economics, Techniques and methods for quantitative analysis (cluster analysis, principal component analysis for the construction of synthetic indicators, factor analysis, the estimated regression models) Master Degree in Development Economics of Territory and Environment 110 cum laude / 110 cum laude From September 2004 to November 2007 Name and type of organisation providing University of Roma Tre - Faculty of Political Science Undergraduate Course (Italian laurea triennale ) in Expert consultant on peace processes and Title of qualification awarded Level in national or international classification development Cooperation Economic statistics, Public law, International law, Expert systems for territorial management, Demography, History, Sociology, European law. Degree in Expert consultant on peace processes and development Cooperation 110 cum laude / 110 cum laude From September 1999 to June 2004 Name and type of organisation providing Language High School G. M. Dettori Tempio (OT) English, French, Spanish, History, Latin, Philosophy, Mathematics, Science Title of qualification awarded High school language degree Level in national or international 100 cum laude/ 100 cum laude classification Personal skills and competences Mother tongue Other language(s) European level Writing Listening Speaking Reading Other language(s) European level Writing Listening Speaking Reading Other language(s) European level Italian English C2 French B2 Spanish B2
Writing Listening Speaking Reading Social skills and competences Organisational skills and competences Working in team, coordination of working groups, attitude of collaborating, multicultural environment. Participation to Summer School, workshop. Living and sharing work moments with colleagues and unknown people from all over the world. Festival of Economics, Trento 2013: participation to the organization and personal assistant of Prof. M. Brunnermeier (Princeton University), speaker at the Festival. Participation at the Rome Bar Camp (2007) with the project Eyes on Bus ; presentations of research works to conferences and seminars Computer skills and competences Advanced knowledge of OFFICE, STATA, MINITAB, ARCGIS, GEODA. knowledge of SAS, SPSS, R. Advanced knowledge of databanks such as Banca Dati Unitaria, OpenCoesione, ISTAT, AIDA, ASIA, CERVED, Tagliacarne, CCIAA, EUROSTAT, DPS CPT. Advanced knowledge of LATEX editor language. Other skills and competences Publications and work in progress Driving licence Type B 2014: paper submitted to the journal QA, Questione Agraria : Politiche di Coesione e PAC. Una rassegna del dibattito corrente. 2014: PhD Thesis The EU Cohesion Policy: Factors conditioning economic growth and impact evaluation accepted by the Department Committee (January 2014), to be discussed with the external Committee in June 2014. 2014: SERC (Spatial economic research centre LSE) working paper Spatial discontinuity for the impact assessment of the EU Regional Policy. How does the net impact of the Policy differ across countries?. Main techniques of analysis: spatial regression discontinuity design. Definition of a territorial database (LAU-2 level) for each country of the European Union with Objective 1 regions. 2013: working paper presented at the ERSA Congress Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy 27-31 August 2013, Palermo, Italy: Cohesion and Economic Growth: how contextual conditions and other EU policies shape the impact of the EU Regional Policy. Main techniques of analysis: panel data models, spatial panel data models, quantile regression, principal component
analysis. 2013: working paper presented at the ERSA Congress Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy 27-31 August 2013, Palermo, Italy: Spatial discontinuity for the impact assessment of the EU Regional policy. The case of Italian objective 1 regions. Main techniques of analysis: spatial regression discontinuity design. 2013: working paper presented at the SERC Annual Conference (London School of Economics): Spatial discontinuity for the impact assessment of the EU Regional policy. The case of Italian objective 1 regions. 2012: working paper presented at the ERSA Conference Fiscal federalism, mobility and Policy evaluation (Umea, July 2012): An integrated framework approach for the European territorial policies evaluation. Main techniques of analysis: GMM System dynamics panel data models. 2012: working paper presented at the CIDE Summer School Policy evaluation: from reduced form to structural form analysis (Bertinoro, September 2012): Exploring treatment effect methodologies: spatial discontinuities to asses European territorial policies. 2011: Academic report Imprese e Territorio, per un atlante delle imprese della provincia di Roma. 2011: Academic working paper EU Place based policies: theory framework, territorial context, evaluation 2011: Participation at the European Parliament session (2011/05/02) as member of the research work group to present the study The CAP in the EU Budget : New objectives and Financial Principles for the Review of the Agricultural Budget after 2013. 2011: Policy report for the European Parliament The CAP in the EU Budget : New objectives and Financial Principles for the Review of the Agricultural Budget after 2013. 2010: Policy working paper Integration between UE rural and regional policies. An evaluation analysis for the Italian regions. Qualitative methods. Ministry of Economic Development, UVAL. 2010: Master thesis The territorial dimension of rural development policies of the EU: the case of Sardinia region. Statistical techniques: principal component
analysis for the construction of a synthetic indicator, cluster analysis, estimation of regression models. Tutors: proff. Guido Fabiani, Riccardo Crescenzi. 2009: Graduate essay: The principle of accessibility in the province of Brindisi. Empirical analysis of the income-distance relationships for the municipalities of the province. 2008: Statistical elaboration of the data and preparation of the statistical report about the research environmental responsible behaviour. University of Roma Tre, Faculty of Economics. 2007: Undergraduate thesis "An empirical analysis of economic development of Sardinia region in the period 1991-2004. Techniques and methods for the quantitative analysis: create database, aggregation, cluster analysis, descriptive analysis. Tutor: prof. Marusca De Castris Referee/Reviewer for journals QA Questione Agraria. Rossi-Doria Association Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Awards ERSA Epainos Award and Young Regional Scientist Sessions (EAYRS) for the working paper presented at the 53rd ERSA Congress Regional Integration: Europe, the Mediterranean and the World Economy 27-31 August 2013, Palermo, Italy: Spatial discontinuity for the impact assessment of the EU Regional policy. The case of Italian objective 1 regions. Quas Premio di Laurea for the thesis An empirical analysis of economic development of Sardinia region in the period 1991-2004 I allow you to use my Personal data according to the provisions of the Personal data Protection Code, Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 June 2003. Rome, 22 th April 2014 Best regards Mara Giua