Personale docente

A) Education and University Activities

December 1992 - Degree in Economics and Business from the University of Modena, with a thesis entitled: "The Relationship between Profit Sharing and Productivity: An Empirical Estimate on Italian Data," supervised by Professor Mario Biagioli; 1993-1994 - Teaching Assistant for the Political Economy I course (Professor Graziella Bertocchi) at the University of Modena;
1995 - Attended the Summer School of Econometrics in Bertinoro (FO) on econometric techniques for macromodels [courses by C. Almon, G. Giovannini (ISTAT), L. Ermini];
1996 - M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Ancona;
1997 - He held two seminars as part of the International Economics program at the University of Modena on the topics: "The Ricardian Model of Comparative Advantage" and "The Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem."
1998 - He received a PhD in Political Economy from the University of Ancona, defending (in Naples, on June 8, 1998) a thesis entitled "A Model of Imperfect Competition: Labor Demand, Wage Bargaining, and an Attempt to Compare Theoretical Results and Their Empirical Verification on Microdata," supervised by Prof. Marco Crivellini.
1998-1999 - Teaching assistant in the courses in Political Economy I (A-L, Prof. Tito Pietra) and Fundamentals of Economics (Dr. Paola Bertolini and Dr. Enrico Giovannetti) at the University of Modena.
1999-2000 – Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia for the Diploma in Foreign Trade program;
2000–2002 – Research Fellow in Economic Policy at the Department of Economics, University of Parma;
since 2002 – Researcher (subsequently confirmed) in Applied Economics SECS-P06 at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Parma;
from 2002 to 2004 – Lecturer (with A. Schianchi and M. Menegatti) of the course "Institutions of Political Economy II," taught in all degree programs of class 17 of the Faculty of Economics (10 credits);
From 2002 to 2004 - Taught a 28-hour course entitled "Territorial Systems Analysis" as part of the Master's Degree in "Local Development" at the Faculty of Economics in Parma;

Since 2005 - Instructor of the course "Institutions of Political Economy II," taught in the CLAM and CLEM degree programs at the Faculty of Economics (10 credits);

Since 2006 - Instructor of the course "Industrial Economics" in the CLEM degree program at the Faculty of Economics (5 credits); Since 2009 - Instructor of the course "Industrial Economics"; Since 2010 - Instructor of the courses "Public Economics" (CLEM) and "Public Economics" (CLEM);

Since 2017 to present - Instructor of the course "Industrial Sector Analysis" (CLEF);
From 2023 to date – Professor of Industrial Economics (CLEA)
B) Research Projects and Other Activities

From 1993 to 1998 - Member of AIEL (Italian Association of Labour Economists);
From 1995 to 1998 - Member (coordinator: Prof. Mario Biagioli) of the Modena group of the research network "IPSE project: The Impact of Profit Sharing in Europe," supported by the "Human Capital and Mobility Programme" (contract of the European Commission). The research project included research groups from the Universities of Bradford (UK), London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), Paris X (France), Hannover (Germany), and Brescia.
1997 - Participated, as an expert in microdata statistical analysis (analysis of variance; cluster, factorial, and discriminant analysis), in part of the "National Observatory of the Textile, Clothing, and Footwear Sector" project, supported by the European Union Commission, scientific director Prof. Sebastiano Brusco, specifically applying agglomeration statistical techniques to the study of the sectoral or regional nature of the typology of final enterprises (in collaboration with Barbara Pistoresi).
1998 - Collaborated on the empirical part of the report, prepared with Mario Biagioli for the European Union Commission, of the research entitled "Analysis of Wage Differentials between and within EU Countries through the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) and the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES)", supervised by DG V (responsible: Ruth Paserman), which focused on wage differentials in Europe, studied through the ECHP (European Community Household Panel) and the SES (The Structure of Earnings Survey).
Since 1999 – Collaborated on the drafting of the Emilia-Romagna Region's "Economy and Work in Emilia-Romagna" Report at the Department of Economics of the University of Parma.

2002-2005 – Member of the Parma Unit of the COFIN project - Scientific Coordinator Prof. D.A. Lane: "Genesis and Development of Intermediate Institutions in the Industrial District", Scientific Director Prof. G. Seravalli

Since 2006 – Collaborated on the research project on "Social Vulnerability in Europe" (Coordinator C. Ranci, Polytechnic University of Milan). The project resulted in the book "Social Vulnerability in Europe: The New Configuration of Social Risks in Western European Countries" (ed. C. Ranci), published by Palgrave-MacMillan.

C) Research interests:

1) Statistical and econometric analysis of micro-panel data on firms and households (experience with Mediobanca, AIDA, ECHP, New Kronos, and RCFL data, and with the design and processing of questionnaire-based sample surveys), particularly surveys on economic relations and labor market institutions;
2) Analysis of the effects of international trade on wages and wage differentials through the analysis of large databases on international trade flows (experience with COMEXT data) and wages (experience with INPS data for Italian sources, REGIO, New Kronos, ECHP, and SES for European sources);
3) Micro and macroeconomic theory, particularly the theory of imperfect competition; Industrial economics and policy; Fiscal policy; 4) Institutions, coordination costs of collective action, social capital, opportunism, public goods, and local development; Public economics and welfare economics. 5) Multi-agent models (agent-based models) on the SWARM platform;
4) Forecasting econometric models for industrial sector analysis.