Current Position
2011 -
Associate Professor in Economics
(2009 - 2010, Lecturer in Economics)
Department of Economic Sciences and Faculty of
Economics,
University of Bologna,
Bologna, Italy.
Employment History
Research Economist then Senior Research Economist, The Institute
for Fiscal Studies (London), (2000 – 2009)
Teaching Fellow (for Applied Economics), University College
London, academic year 2008-09
Visiting researcher, CSEF, Università di Salerno (Italy),
November 2005
Visiting researcher, CAM, University of Copenhagen (Denmark),
May-June 2005.
Education
- Ph.D in Economics, April 2009, University College
London.
Thesis: Consumption and Saving Decisions in the face of Choices
About Housing and Pensions
Supervisors: Prof. Orazio Attanasio and Prof. Richard
Blundell.
Examiners: Prof. Victor Rios-Rull (University of Minnesota) and
Prof. Costas Meghir (internal)
- M. Phil, Economics, July 2000, University of Oxford.
Thesis: Labour Supply Decisions and Policy Implications when
Work Becomes a Habit, grade: α–
- M.A. Philosophy, Politics and Economics, July 1998, St. John's
College, University of Oxford.
First class honours.
Teaching
Lecturer for “Macroeconomics”, Corso di Laurea in Economia e
Diritti, at University of Bologna, 2009/10
Lecturer for the undergraduate course “Applied Economics” at
University College London, 2008 / 09
Lecture on “Pensions and Savings in the UK” given to undergraduates
at: Department of Economics, University of Cambridge and Department
of Economics, University of Oxford, January 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
The IFS Public Economics Lecture Day, London, March 2007
Funding Awards
PRIN 2010 - 11 (MIUR), head of local research group (Bologna)
for the national project "The economic consequences of population
ageing in Europe" (total funding for the national project of c. 800
000 euro, with c. 80 000 euro for the Bologna group).
National Housing and Planning Advice Unit (NHPAU) grant
co-investigator, “House Prices and Cohort Home Ownership”, (c.
£40,000), PI: Renata Bottazzi
ESRC grant co-investigator, “Using theory and simulation methods
to understand the micro-econometric evidence on the relationship
between house prices and consumption growth in the U.K.”
(RES-000-22-1913, £43,919.72, October 2006 to October 2007), PI:
Orazio Attanasio
HM Treasury, “Evaluation of the Saving Gateway 2 accounts”, (IFS
component £125,000 between spring 2005 and spring 2007), with Carl
Emmerson as part of consortium led by MORI.
Seminars and conferences
2014
Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca
Netspar International Pensions Workshop, Amsterdam
2013
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Royal Holloway,
University of London
2008
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) summer institute
(consumption), Cambridge (Ma);
- Bank of England invited seminar;
- Royal Economic Society (RES) Annual conference, Warwick,
2006
- EU-RTN (Age) Conference, PSE, Paris, 2006
2005
Royal Economic Society (RES) Annual conference, Nottingham;
CAM, Uni. of Copenhagen;
2003
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) summer institute
(aging), Cambridge (Ma);
EU-RTN (Age) Conference, CSEF, Naples.
