Bologna
Studying in Bologna
Coordinator:
Prof. Gianluca Fiorentini
Office:
Ms. Lisa Verniti
Tel.: +39 051 208 8550
Email.: facecon.mle(AT)unibo.it
Postal Address:
Università degli Studi di Bologna
School of Economics
Piazza Scaravilli 2
I-40126 Bologna
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Michele Abrescia
Prof. Marco Bigelli
Prof. Emanuela Carbonara
Prof. Giulio Ecchia
Prof. Gianluca Fiorentini
Prof. Luigi Franzoni
Prof. Andrea Ichino
Prof. Martin Gelter
Prof. Marco Lamandini
Prof. Pietro Manzini
Prof. Alberto Monti
Prof. Massimo Motta
Prof. Francesco Parisi
Coordinator
He has been involved in several expert groups dealing with competition policy, privatizations, nonprofit organizations, and the reform of the welfare state. Moreover, he has published in the areas of illegal markets, corruption, economic analysis of legal procedures, interest groups and public choice.
Currently his main fields of interests are public intervention and regulation in human services (health, education, welfare) and health economics.
Teaching Staff
Elena Argentesi is Assistant professor at the Department of Economics and the Faculty of Political Science (Forlì) of the University of Bologna. She gained her doctorate in Economics at the European University Institute, Florence with her Thesis on "Empirical analysis of a two-sided market: The case of the Italian newspapers industry" (Supervisor: Professor Massimo Motta) in 2005.
Marco Bigelli is Associate Professor of Corporate Finance at the University of Bologna. After having worked in the corporate finance department at Imi Bank Luxembourg, he was a Visiting PhD Student at the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1993. In 1995 he obtained a PhD in "Markets and Financial Intermediaries" at the University of Bergamo. Moreover, he has been a Jean Monnet Professor and a member of the board of the European Financial Management Association. He founded borse.it, one of the major financial information Italian web-companies, and has published several national and international articles as well as two books on corporate governance, non-voting shares and seasoned equity offerings.
Emanuela Carbonara is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna.
She obtained a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford in 1999. Moreover, she was a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and the Johns Hopkins University. She has published on economic analysis of contracts and regulation.
Her main research interests are the law and economics of contracts and market regulation.
Luigi A. Franzoni is Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of Bologna. He received his D.Phil. from the Nuffield College, Oxford, and has published in leading journals on the economic theory of settlements, law enforcement, tax amnesties and intellectual property. He is author of a well-received introduction to law and economics (Introduzione all'economia del diritto, Il Mulino, 2003).
Andrea Ichino joined the Department of Economics at the university of Bologna in October 2005, coming from the European University Institute in Fiesole. Previously he was Assistant Professor at the Bocconi University until 1996, after having obtained his Ph.D. from the MIT in 1990 and his Laurea from the Bocconi University in 1985. He has been Editor in Chief of Labour Economics, member of the scientific committee of the European Association of Labour Economists and he is a fellow of CEPR, IZA and CESifo. His current research and teaching interests include the micro-economics of labour markets, public institutions, education and the family as well as methodological issues related to the identification and estimation of causal effects in micro-econometrics.
Marco Lamandini is Full Professor of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna and Visiting Professor of Securities Law at the Faculty of Banking, Insurance and Financial Institutions of the Catholic University of Milan.
Marco Lamandini is the author of three law books (Il "controllo". Nozioni e "tipo" nella legislazione economica, Giuffré, Milano, 1ed, 1994; Le concentrazioni bancarie, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1998; Struttura finanziaria e governo nelle società di capitali, Il Mulino., Bologna, 2001) and of many articles in his field of study.
Since 2002 he has acted as Special Expert for the European Parliament in the field of securities law and corporate governance.
Matteo Lippi Bruni is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics University of Bologna. He has an MSc in Economics from the University College London and a PhD in Economics from the University of Bologna. He currently teaches Public Finance and Economic Analysis of Law at the University of Bologna- Forlì Campus. His main research interests focus on Public Economics and Economic Analysis of the Health Care sector. He is a member of CHILD (Centre for Household Income Labour and Demographic Economics) and of the EHPG (European Health Policy Group).
Daniele Fabbri is assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics at Bologna University. He has published on health economics, and his interests also include topics such as regulation, productivity analysis, models of bureaucracy, transport economics.
Pietro Manzini is Associate Professor of International Law at Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bologna. He has been Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Paris II.
He has also been a lecturer at the University of Nijmegen (Holland), and has worked as Legal Secretary at the EC Court of First Instance. He published some books and several articles mainly concerning antitrust and other law and economic issues of European law.
Alberto Monti is Associate Professor of Comparative Law at Bocconi University in Milan. Since 2002, he is Consultant for the OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Insurance Committee, Paris).
He received his J.D. (1995, cum laude) from the University of Milan, his LL.M. (2000, International Legal Studies) from NYU Law (New York University) and his Ph.D. (2000, Comparative Law) from the University of Trento.
He has been Visiting Scholar (1996) and Fellow (1997) at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Italian National Reporter in the Common Core of European Law Project, Hauser Global Scholar at NYU Law (1999/2000) and Research Fellow at the ICER - International Centre for Economic Research (2001 and 2002). He published a book and several articles on Contract Law, Tort Law and the Law of Insurance.
Massimo Motta earned a PhD in Economics at the University of Louvain. He has taught at the University Pompeu Fabra, the European University Institute, and the University of Bologna. He is a Research Fellow of the CEPR and CESifo, as well as member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Competition Economists, of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission, and of the Expert Academic Panel of Ofcom, and has been elected in the Council of the European Economic Association (2008-2012). His book on Competition Policy: Theory and Practice(Cambridge University Press, 2004)is the standard international reference on the economics of antitrust.
Francesco Parisi is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Economics (Professore Ordinario per Chiara Fama) at the University of Milan and a Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota School of Law.
He is Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review (Chicago University Press) and Co-Director of the Program in Economics and the Law at the J.M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. Professor Parisi received his D.Jur. degree from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", an LL.M. and a J.S.D. and an M.A. degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D in Economics from George Mason University.
Professor Parisi is a member of the board of editors of the International Review of Law and Economics, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the Social Sciences Research Network.
Emanuele Tarantino is a postdoctoral researcher of Economics at Tilburg University and his academic interests include Industrial Organization and Competition, Corporate Finance, Law and Economics, Microeconomics. He was visiting research student at Toulouse School of Economics, and nowadays he is PhD Candidate at the European University Institute of Florence, with a thesis in Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance.
