Full Professor in Econometrics, Dep. of Economics, University of
Bologna; 2014-2024 Associate Professor in Economics, Dep. of Economics,
University of Bologna; 2008-2014 Assistant Professor in Econometrics,
Dep. of Economics, University of Bologna; 2002-2008 Assistant Professor
in Econometrics, Faculty of Economics, University of Ferrara.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Organization, management and coordination of national research centers and/or groups
CRIF S.p.A. on “Financial constraints, firms’ rating and debt-ratio
behaviour”. Bank of Italy on “Construction of disaggregated tangible and
intangible capital stocks. A comparison of firm-level and national
account values”.
Participation in national research centers and/or groups
National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) funded by the European
Union - NextGenerationEU, Mission 4 Education and Research – Component 2
from research to business Investment 1.5 Ecosystem for Sustainable
Transition in Emilia-Romagna (Ecosister) proposal code ECS00000033, CUP
J33C22001240001, Circular Economy and Blue Economy (spoke 5) [14/6/2022-present].
Italian Ministry MIUR PRIN project 2022H2STF2 Climate Risk
Uncertainty, Finanziamento dell’Unione Europea - NextGenerationEU - PNRR
M4.C2.1.1 (WP1, Bologna Research Unit, G. Angelini)
[24/3/2022-present].
Scientific collaboration Ernst&Young Italy and Dep. of Economics,
University of Bologna to produce the HEY-MoM, the quarterly hybrid EY
Model for the macroeconomy. The first aggregated forecast was published
on 12/19/22 (
[https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2022/12/19/pil-ey-stima-06-nel-2023-ma-il-pnrr-e-variabile-cruciale_63b0978a-c185-4470-9235-db3efa6f5755.html]
and
[https://www.ey.com/it_it/news/2022-press-releases/12/nuova-analisi-ey-sullo-scenario-macroeconomico]
). EY plans to publish forecast updates on the quarterly numbers in the
new EY Italian Macroeconomic Bulletin [1/3/2021-present].
Scientific collaboration Federcasse and Dep. of Economics, University
of Bologna to construct an annual econometric model for forecasting and
policy evaluation [1/10/2018-present].
Scientific collaboration Confindustria Research Centre and Dep. of
Economics, University of Bologna, aimed to specification, estimation,
and evaluation of a new annual macroeconomic model for Confindustria’s
biennial forecasts [5/12/2018-5/12/2022].
Advisor to the Senate of the Republic, Parliamentary Commission of
Inquiry on feminicide and all forms of gender-based violence. I have
worked on quantifying and estimating the costs of violence on an
international comparison level. These results were published in Report
XXII-bis n.9 of the SENATO DELLA REPUBBLICA, XVII LEGISLATURA, printed
on 5 March 2018 [17/10/2017-5/3/2018].
Participation in international research centers and/or groups
CREST-ENSAE (Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique-École
Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique) Research
projects and collaboration [8/2003-11/2007]. The most important research
project was commissioned by OECD, Directorate for Science, Technology
and Industry during the period June 2006-July 2007 to evaluate the
Impact of R&D on Productivity Growth on a cross-country panel.
Receipt of national awards and recognitions
Teaching Price 2021, University of Bologna, Department of Economics
[won 21/09/2022]. Research fellowship, University of Bologna, Department
of Economics [1/2/2001–31/10/2002]. Post-doctoral research fellowship,
University of Brescia, Department of Economics,
[21/9/1999-31/1/2001]. Cineca (North-East Inter-University Consortium
for Automatic Calculus) Scholarship [8/6/1999-7/6/2000]. University of
Rome Tor Vergata, Full Ph.D. scholarship granted by the Italian Ministry
of Education, and University of Rome Tor Vergata scholarship to spend a
visiting period at the University College of London, London
[1995-1998]. CIDE (Inter-University Centre of Econometrics), awards to
attend Summer Schools of Econometrics at Bertinoro (FO), Italy
[1994-1995]
Receipt of international awards and recognitions
Invited keynote speaker at the 30 IPDC (International Panel Data
Conference), Université de Montpellier, Grance, June 30 and July 1 2025
[https://ipdc2025.org/] . Talk’s title “Nested Heterogeneity: Empirical
lessons from Fascist Italian Schools to Contemporary French Forests”
Elected Fellow of the SEM - Society for Economic Measurement [https://sem-society.org/fellows/] [1/7/2022-present]
Elected Member of the International Panel Data Conference Scientific Committee [19/6/2018-present]
Organized sessions/conferences
The 5th Italian Workshop of Econometrics and Empirical Economics:
“Panel Data Econometrics”
[https://www.side-iea.it/events/workshops/5th-italian-workshop-econometrics-and-empirical-economics-iweee2026],
University of Ancona, 16-17 January 2026
The 18 International Joint Conference CFE-CMStatistics
[https://www.cmstatistics.org/CFECMStatistics2024/submission.php]
(Computational and Financial Econometrics), 14-16 December 2024, King’s
College London; session Climate Risk Uncertainty.
The 8 Annual Conference of SEM (Society for Economic Measurement),
University of Milano Bicocca, June 29-July 1, 2023
[https://sem-society.org/milan-italy-conference-to-be-held-2023/] ;
session Measurement, Uncertainty, and Financial Markets, June 30, 2023.
The 27 IPDC (International Panel Data Conference
[https://ipdc2022.org/] ), University Residential Centre, Bertinoro
(FO), Italy, June 16-19, 2022 (programmed for 2020, was postponed to
2022 because of the pandemic situation. The Conference series, started
in 1977, was in Italy for the first time). Organization & scientific
committee. To create a bridge towards the on-place IPDC in 2022 during
the pandemic lockdown, I organized a mentoring activity dedicated to the
youngest submitters to provide moral and academic support. The selected
papers were presented in monthly virtual seminars, from May to October
2021, in the Online Research Seminars of the Bayes Business
School, London (
https://www.cass.city.ac.uk/faculties-and-research/centres/cea/events )
with the help of G. Urga and E. Pellini. The virtual seminar series of
the IAAE [https://appliedeconometrics.org/iaae-webinars] kindly hosted
the first selected paper by Jan Ditzen, “Spatial and Spatio-temporal
Error Correction, Networks and Common Correlated Effects” (with A. Bhattacharjee and Sean Holly). Thank to H. Pesaran and M. Chauvet for hosting my initiative.
20+ Years of the CIDE Summer School of Econometrics
[https://carlobianchiandcide.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/20-years-of-the-cide-summer-school-of-econometrics/],
event in honour of its emeritus director Carlo Bianchi, Aula Magna,
Department of Economics, 6 November 2015, with the participation of the
Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco.
The Bank of Italy Workshop on “Le trasformazioni dei sistemi produttivi locali” Aula Magna, Dep. of Economics, University of Bologna (January 31-February 1, 2012).
Participation as a speaker at congresses and conferences on international interest
The 29 IPDC (International Panel Data Conference), University of Orléans, 4-5 July 2024 [https://ipdc2024.org/] .
The 17 International Joint Conference CFE-CMStatistics (Computational
and Financial Econometrics), HTW Berlin, University of Applied
Sciences, 16-18 December 2023.
[http://www.cfenetwork.org/CFE2023/index.php]
The 5 Biennial Conference Uncertainty, Economic Activity, and
Forecasting in a Changing Environment, 21-22 September 2023, University
of Padua.
[https://www.economia.unipd.it/en/uncertainty-economic-activity-and-forecasting-changing-environment]
The 28th IPDC - International Panel Data Conference, Amsterdam School fo Economics, 3-4 July 2023 [https://ipdc2023.org/] .
The 10th ICEEE - Italian Congress of Econometrics &
Empirical Economics, University of Cagliari, 26-28 May 2023
[https://www.side-iea.it/events/conferences/iceee-2023] .
IAAE International Association for Applied Econometrics Conference
[http://appliedeconometrics.org/2018-conference], Université du Québec à
Montréal (UQAM) and Université de Montréal (UdeM)), Montreal, Canada,
June 26-29, 2018.
IPDC 2017 Annual Conference, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
[https://easyconferences.eu/portfolio/ipdc-2017/], July 7-8, 2017.
Invited SEM's 2017 conference, the Samberg Center at the MIT
[https://sem-society.org/samberg-center-mit-conference-to-be-held-july-26-28-2017/],
Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 26-28, 2017.
Invited Stanford SITE (Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics)
[https://exhibits.stanford.edu/site-archive/browse] “The Macroeconomic
of Uncertainty and Volatility", Stanford, California, September 7-9,
2016, organized by N. Bloom.
The 2 workshop on "Impact of uncertainty shocks on the global
economy" [http://www.pramu.ac.uk/], University College of London,
University of Leicester and Banque de France, May 12-13, 2016, London.
Invited The 5 European Conference on Corporate R&D and
Innovation: «Industrial Research and Innovation: Evidence for Policy»
(CONCORDi-2015), European Commission
[https://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/industrial-research-and-innovation-evidence-policy]
JRC-IPTS, Seville, Oct. 1-2, 2015.
Invited the European Commission IRE 4 Conference on Corporate R&D
and Innovation: «Financing R&D and Innovation for Corporate Growth
in the EU: Strategies, drivers and barriers» (CONCORDì),
[https://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events/financing-rd-and-innovation-corporate-growth-eu-strategies-drivers-and-barriers]
European Commission JRC-IPTS, Seville, September 26-27, 2013
Invited R&D, Science, Innovation and Intellectual Property
[http://www.crest.fr/images/intconfmairesse/programm.pdf], International
Conference in Honour of Jacques Mairesse, ENSAE, Paris, September
16-17, 2010
IPDC 19 Annual Conference, [http://paneldataconferences.ceu.hu/] Cass Business School, London, July 4-5, 2013
IPDC 18 [http://www.banque-france.fr/18th-international-panel-data-conference/html/18th-international-panel-data-conference.htm]th
Annual Conference,
[http://www.banque-france.fr/18th-international-panel-data-conference/html/18th-international-panel-data-conference.htm]
Banque de France, Paris, July 5-6, 2012
Participation as a speaker at national congresses and conferences on international interest
SIdE Eleventh Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical
Economics (ICEEE), University of Palermo, 29-31 May 2025
[https://www.side-iea.it/events/conferences/iceee-2025]
SIdE First Italian Workshop of Econometrics and Empirical Economics
(IWEEE): panel data Models and Applications
[https://www.side-iea.it/news/1st-italian-workshop-econometrics-and-empirical-economics],
University of Milano-Bicocca, Jan. 25-26, 2018
Invited ISTAT, 12° Conferenza Nazionale di Statistica, Roma, 22-24 Giugno 2016
SIdE Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics (ICEEE)
[https://www.side-iea.it/events/iceee/iceee-2015], Salerno, Jan. 21-23,
2015;
Italian Economic Association Annual Conference [https://www.siecon.org/it], Matera, October 18-20, 2013
SIdE Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics (ICEEE)
[https://www.side-iea.it/events/iceee/iceee-2013], Genoa, Jan. 16-18,
2013
The 54 Italian Economic Association Annual Conference [https://www.siecon.org/it], University of Bologna, Oct. 24-26, 2013
Institutional activities:
9/5/2022-present Member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Economics, Dep. of Economics, Univ. of Bologna.
2020 November-December Job Market Junior Econometrics, papers’ evaluation, and interviews.
2020-present Coordinator of 8 Erasmus+ exchanges, 26 students: The
Netherlands (Maastricht University, 4), Norway (Bergen Norwegian School
of Economics, 8), Belgium (Université Catholique de Louvain, 2), Denmark
(Odense University of Southern Denmark, 2), Spain (ESCI-UPF
International Business School Barcellona, 2, Universitat Autònoma de
Barcellona, 1, Universitat de Barcellona, 3, Universidad Pablo de
Olavide de Sevilla, 4).
2018-2024 Delegate to the Internationalization of the Department of Economics, University of Bologna. Results achieved:
about 130 Erasmus+ exchanges, more than 260 outgoing and 260 incoming
students (plus Overseas, traineeships, and other international
opportunities); 100% student mobility and 0% inactive exchanges, despite
the pandemic situation in 2020/21, rewarded the Department with the
highest internationalisation budget by the University of Bologna. I used
it to tender scholarships for our students in India and Canada with
which we have agreements. I was also able to find and select tutors to
facilitate the administrative work of professors in charge of Erasmus
exchanges, and program coordinators. I wrote an operational manual for
coordinators and got the University of Bologna to recognize, on the
institutional web pages, the activity of coordinators of Erasmus+
exchanges. I helped prepare the web pages specifically dedicated to the
opportunities abroad for the Department. I prepared a report on all the
Department’s international activities for the ISAS 2.0 evaluation and
support programme developed by the International Association of
Universities (IAU) to promote internationalization in higher education.
As a delegate, I am also responsible for Overseas exchanges involving
the Department’s students, as well as for the Virtual Mobility in
Emergence of the Una Europa Alliance, a European university alliance of
eight leading European universities (KU Leuven - Belgium, Freie
Universität Berlin - Germany, Università di Bologna - Italy, Uniwersytet
Jagielloński w Krakowie - Poland, Universidad Complutense de Madrid -
Spain, University of Edinburgh - Scotland, Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne – France, and Helsingin Yliopisto - Finland). One of
the main objectives of the Una Europa alliance is to create the European
university of the future, where students can attend integrated courses
in different countries and languages, and to experiment with innovative
international mobility formats and initiatives.
2012-present Coordinator of the annual SIdE PhD course Panel Data Econometrics: Theory and Applications.
The Dep. of Economics hosts the Italian Econometric Association SIdE, a
scientific non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote
econometric research and the study, dissemination, and teaching of
econometrics in Italy, as well as to foster international scientific
collaborations.
2018–2021 Member of the Department committee, Dep. of Economics, Univ. of Bologna
2017-2018 “Il Sistema monetario internazionale”, two editions of the
“mini-course of Economics” for high-school students (April 7, 2017, and
February 9, 2018)
2016 Previsore economico per una notte. Esperimenti per diventare
professional forecaster, Notte dei Ricercatori SocietyNext (Consortium
University of Bologna, Cineca, CNR, INAF, INFN, INGV), event September
30, 2016, Opificio Golinelli.
2013-2018 Member of the Academic Board of the PhD program degree in
Economics, Dep. of Economics, Univ. of Bologna (13/9/2013-31/10/2018)
2010-2015 Organizer of the Internal Research Seminars of the Dep. of Economics, Univ. of Bologna (1/06/2010-1/06/2015)
