Contacts:
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Università di Bologna
Piazza Scaravilli, 2
40122 Bologna
E-mail: giuseppe.pignataro@unibo.it
Current Position
2020- : Associate Professor in Economics (13/A2), Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Previous Position
- 2012- 2020: Assistant Professor in Economics (13/A2), Department of Economics, University of Bologna
- 2009-2012: Post-doctoral research fellow, Project: "Understanding the nature of risk selection in the Italian health care market: theory and empirical evidence". Tutor: Prof. Francesca Barigozzi. University of Bologna, Department of Economics, Bologna.
Education
Ph.D. in Public Economics, DEFAP, Catholic University, Milan, 2009.
Thesis: "Essays on Equality of Opportunity".
Supervisors: Prof. Vito Peragine and Prof. Gilberto Turati.
M.Sc. in Economics, CORIPE, University of Turin, 2005.
B.A. in Economics (110/110 cum laude), University of Catania, 2003.
Thesis: "Human capital accumulation and R&D spillovers: an empirical application to italian regions".
Supervisor: Prof. Roberto Cellini.
Research Interests
Inequality and Poverty; Economics of Information; Microeconomic Theory; Public Policies
Website:
https://www.giuseppepignataro.info/
∙ "Pool Size and the Sustainability of Optimal Risk-Sharing Agreements", 2017, (with Francesca Barigozzi, Renaus Bourlès, Dominique Henriet), Theory and Decision, 82 (1) , pp. 273-303
∙ "A graph-based approach to inequality assessment", 2016, (with Arsen Palestini), Physica A, 455 (1), pp. 65-78
∙ "Multifactorial decomposition of Inequality: the case of CAP", 2015, (with Arsen Palestini), Journal of Income Distribution, 23, pp. 59-83
∙ "Theocracy and resilience against economic sanctions", 2015, (with Alireza Naghavi), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 111 (1), pp. 1-12
∙ "The poor are twice cursed: wealth inequality and inefficient credit market", 2014, (with Giuseppe Coco), Journal of Banking and Finance, 49 (1), pp. 149-159
∙"Ex-ante and ex-post measurement of equality of opportunity in health: a normative decomposition", 2014, (with Paolo Li Donni and Vito Peragine), Health Economics, 23 (2), pp. 182-198
∙"Unfair Credit Allocations", 2013, (with Giuseppe Coco), Small Business Economics, 41 (1), pp. 241-251
∙"Equality of opportunity: policy and measurement paradigms", 2012, Journal of Economic Surveys, 26 (5), pp. 800-834
∙"Measuring equality of opportunity by Shapley value", 2010, Economics Bulletin, 30 (1), pp. 786-798
∙"Decomposing equality of opportunity by income sources", 2009, Economics Bulletin, 29 (2), pp. 713-722
