Luigi Bonatti
Full professor
Department of Economics and Management
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GRADUATE STUDIES: Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, 1992. Ph.D. thesis: “Three essays on the dynamics of a capitalist economy with insiders and outsiders”; thesis supervisor: Prof. Edmund S. Phelps.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Diploma, Scuola Normale Superiore, Class of Humanities, 1980. “Maturità classica” (School-Leaving Exam), Liceo-Ginnasio “T. Mamiani” (Rome), 60/60, 1976. |
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Academic career and teaching activities |
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CURRENT POSITION: Full Professor of Economic Policy, University of Trento (2006-present). PREVIOUS POSITIONS: Deputy Director of the School of international Studies, University of Trento (2012 - 2016). Visiting Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing (China), Fall 2012. Visiting Professor at the Azerbaijian Diplomatic Academy, Baku (Azerbaijian), Fall 2009. Coordinator of the Ph.D program in International Studies, University of Trento (Italy), 2007-2009. Full Professor of Economic Policy, University of Bergamo (Italy), 2002-2006. Associate Professor of Economics, University of Trento (Italy), 1998-2002. “Ricercatore” (Assistant Professor) of Economics, University of Trento (Italy), 1994-1998.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: |
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Research interests |
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Growth theory, Macroeconomics and International Economics, Welfare Economics and Public Choice, Rationality and Expectations, Environmental Economics. |
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Research work |
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Coordinator of the research unit of the University of Trento of EconPol Europe – European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (2017-present). Visiting Scholar at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, Fall 2015. Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California Berkeley (USA), Summer 2008 and Spring 2012. Visiting Scholar at CEPS/INSTEAD (Luxembourg), Fall 2011. "Fellow-in-Residence" at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University (USA), 1999-2000. |
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Memberships in societies and scientific committees |
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External expert for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament (2020-present). Foreign member of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, 2018-present. Member of the "Gruppo dei Venti", a think tank coordinated by the “Fondazione Economia Tor Vergata” that is particularly focused on EU policies (2014-present). Fellow of the Fondazione Economia Tor Vergata, 2013-present. |
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Awards and honours |
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Fellowship by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University (USA), 1999-2000. “Ezio Tarantelli Award” for the best paper of the year 1996, AIEL (Italian Association of Labor Economists), 1997. |