Matteo Cervellati

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Professor of Economics in Bologna since 2011. Ph.D in Economics 2005 at UPF Barcelona. Director of the PhD Program 2013-2016. His research interests are in the theoretical and empirical investigation of long-term development. He has been working on political economics, economics demography, unified growth theory, endogenous democratization, theory and empirics of cultural values, the role of life expectancy. He has studied the role of exposure to human pathogens for social interactions and civil conflicts exploiting geo-referenced disaggregated data. He applies quantitative analysis and spatial-historical data.

He has published in journals like AER, Econometrica, ReStat, AEJ Macroeconomics, Economic Journal., Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Public Economics, among others. PI in research project funded by MIUR-PRIN, EIEF, University of Bologna and member in FIRB and ERC network projects. Research Fellow: CEPR, London; IZA Bonn; CESIfo Munich; GLO.