Personale docente

CURRICULUM VITAE 18/07/2025
Marco Magnani

OFFICE
Università di Parma
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Via Kennedy 6
43100 Parma, Italy.
Ph.: (39 0521) 032 530
Fax: (39 0521) 032 402

DATE OF BIRTH: October 15, 1974.

NATIONALITY: Italian.

E-Mail Adress: marco.magnani@unipr.it

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Political Economy, Labor Economics, Decision Theory.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Economics of European Integration, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics.

EDUCATION
• PhD in Economics at Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy, 2011.
• Laurea (Summa cum Laude) in Economics at Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy, 2000.

CURRENT POSITION
• Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Business, Università di Parma

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Visiting Scholar, Boston College, Department of Economics, Summer 2022;
• Adjunct Professor of Economics, Morrisey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College 2020-2022;
• Adjunct Professor of Economics, Boston College International Program “BC in Parma 2017-2022;
• Collaboration in teaching activities with Circolo il Borgo di Parma, 2020-2022.
• Senior researcher working on a joint research project between Prefettura di Parma and Università degli Studi di Parma, financed by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union, on the evaluation of the reception centers for asylum seekers, June 2018 – 2021.
• Rapporteur for the conference ESS Data Visualisation, organized by Eurostat and held in Milan on the 6 - 7 May 2019
• Expert appointed of the evaluation of the project “Impact of individuals, organizations and institutions on the length of careers” included in the research program “Society and Future” of the Belgian Science Policy Office, June 2012.
• Research Fellow, Università degli Studi di Parma, Department of Economics, working on the project “Development and Competition among Special Interest Groups: a Poltical Economy Model”, 2006 – 2008.
• Visiting Scholar, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development, Fall 2002, Spring 2003.
• Junior researcher and data archives manager, Observatory on Labor Markets, Parma (Italy), working on a research project on “Local labor markets and the transition of young adults from school to the job market”, from March 2000 to October 2001.
• Junior researcher, Cooperative Institution for Professional Training (ECAP s.c.a.r.l.), working on a research project financed by the European Social Fund and the Emilia-Romagna region on “The employment of extra-EU workers in firms of the Emilia Romagna region”, from November 2000 to January 2002.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Instructor, Macroeconomics, Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, Fall, 2009 - present.
• Instructor, Micro&Macro Economics (course taught in English), Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, Fall, 2009 - present.
• Instructor, International Monetary Economic, European College of Parma, Spring 2023 – present.
• Instructor, Microeconomics, ESCP Business School, Turin campus, Fall 2023 - present.
• Instructor, Microeconomics, PhD in Economy and Management of Innovation and Sustainability, Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, Spring, 2025.
• Instructor, International Monetary Economics, Morrisey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, Summer 2020 - 2022.
• Instructor, International Monetary Economics, Boston College International Program “BC in Parma”, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2017 - 2022.
• Instructor, Contract Theory, PhD in Economics, Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, Spring, 2009 – Spring, 2013.
• Instructor, Public Economics, Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, Spring, 2009.
• Instructor, Welfare and Development, Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, Fall, 2007 – Fall, 2008.
• Instructor, Development Economics, Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, Spring 2007.
• Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, Fall 2006, Spring 2006.
• Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia, Spring 2005.
• Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics, Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, Fall 2004.

FELLOWSHIPS
• Three-year scholarship from the University of Venice, 2001 - 2004.

AWARDS
• Young researchers’ award of the Department of Economics, Università degli Studi di Parma, 2005.
GRANTS

PRIN 2022, Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, financed by the European Union - NextGenerationEU
Title: “ Measuring Scientific Output via Preferences Elicitation”
Role: Responsible of local research unit (joint with Pietro Battiston and Giovanni Ursino, PI)
Ammontare: € 232.480

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

• Referee for Insurance Mathematics and Economics, Economic Theory Bulletin, International Journal of Economic Theory, North American Journal of Economics, Soft Computing, World Development, Theory and Decision, Economic Systems, Journal of Economics, International Tax and Public Finance and Economics Bulletin.
• Vice-president of the second cycle degree course in International Business and Development, Department of Economics and Business, Università degli Studi di Parma, 2023 - present
• Member of the Doctoral School Committee, Ph.D program in Economics and Management of Innovation and Sustainability, Department of Economics, Università degli Studi di Parma and Università degli Studi di Ferrara, from 2013 to present.
• Member of the Commission for Quality Assurance, Department of Economics, Università degli Studi di Parma, from 2017 to present.
• Curriculum counsellor for high school students, Department of Economics, Università degli Studi di Parma, from 2007 to present.
• Member of the Accrediting Commission evaluating the careers of incoming students who were previously enrolled in programs of other universities, Department of Economics, Università degli Studi di Parma, from 2014 to 2017.
• Member of the Scientific Committee for the area of Economic and Statistical Sciences (Comitato 113) , Department of Economics, Università degli Studi di Parma, from 2011 to 2013.
• Doctoral School Committee, Ph.D program in Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Università degli Studi di Parma, 2012.
• Doctoral School Committee, Ph.D program in Economics, Department of Economics, Università degli Studi di Parma, 2009-2010.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

"An analysis of precautionary behavior in retirement decision making with an application to pension system reform." Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2024, 117: 99-113.

“Labor market analysis through transformations and robust multivariate models” with A. Corbellini and G. Morelli, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2021, 73: 100826;

“The theory of precautionary saving: an overview of recent developments” with D. Baiardi and M.Menegatti, Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18(2), pp.513-542.

“Precautionary retirement and precautionary saving”, Journal of Economics, 2020, 129(1), pp. 49-77.

“Changes in multiplicative risks and optimal portfolio choice: new interpretations and results” , with M. De Donno and M. Menegatti, Decisions in Economics and Finance, 2020, 43(1), pp.251-267.

“Optimal choice of prevention and cure under uncertainty on disease effect and cure effectiveness” with M. Brianti and M. Menegatti, Research in Economics, 2018, 72(2), pp. 327-342

“Electoral competition with ideologically biased voters”, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2017, 29(3), pp. 415-439..

“A new interpretation of the condition for precautionary saving in the presence of an interest-rate risk”, Journal of Economics, 2016, 1, pp. 1-9.

“A Firm-Level Analysis of the Italian Labor Share” with V. Dall’Aglio, and P. Marchini, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2015, 2, pp. 179-210.

“New results on precautionary saving under two risks” with D. Baiardi, M. De Donno, and M.Menegatti, Economics Letters, 2015, 130, pp. 17-20.

“Precautionary saving and changes in risk correlation” with M.Menegatti, Economics Bulletin, 2015, 35(1), pp. 561-570.

“Precautionary saving under many risks” with D. Baiardi and M.Menegatti, Journal of Economics, 2014, 113, pp. 221-228.

“Why do dictators like white elephants? An application of the all-pay auction.”, Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33(3), pp. 2260-2269.

“Electoral Competition, Decentralization and Public Investment Underprovision”, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2010, 166(2), pp. 321-343

“On Labour Shares in Recent Decades: A Survey” with L. Boggio and V. Dall’Aglio, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2010, 3, pp 283-333.

“Is the Pendulum Swinging Back? Policy and Politics in the Return of Big Government”, with Gilberto Seravalli, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2009, 1, pp.61-84.

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Stato ed Evoluzione del Consumo di Suolo in Sardegna” with M. Delogu, G. Mancini e D. Paolini in 29° Rapporto sull'Economia della Sardegna, Caruso, Dettori & Paci (eds.), CAGLIARI, Arkadia Editore, 2023, ISBN: 978-88-68514-66-2.
“Two-Player All-Pay Auctions with a Favored Player: Equilibria and Applications to Economic Policy”, Fidenza (Parma): Casa Editrice Mattioli 1885, 2013, ISBN: 978-88-6261-395-8.

WORKING PAPERS

Under review:

Magnani, Marco, Campaign Spending in Elections with Micro-Targeting and Ideologically Biased Voters. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4784505 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4784505

Rossi, Luca and Battiston, Pietro and Magnani, Marco and Paolini, Dimitri, Country Music: Positional Voting and Strategic Behavior. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5273017 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5273017

In progress
Magnani Marco "The effects of asylum seeker self-selection on the integration in the host country" Economics Department Working Papers 2024-EP01, Department of Economics, Parma University (Italy).

CONFERENCE AND SEMINARS

2025: 24th Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Giugno, Aix-Marseille Université, AMSE;

2025: Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, April, University of Riga.

2024: 65th Annual Meeting of the Italian Economic Association, October, University of Urbino;

2024: Silvaplana Political Economy Workshop, July-August, organized by the European Journal of Political Economy

2024: 23rd Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Giugno, Aix-Marseille Université, AMSE;

2022: International Pension Workshop, January, Network for Studies on Pension, Aging and Retirement.

2019: International Conference on Public Economic Theory, July, University of Strasbourg.

2019: Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, April, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2015: Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Aprile, University of Groeningen.

2013: Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, April, ETH Zurigo.

2012: 53rd Annual Meeting of the Italian Economic Association, October, University of Basilicata

2011: Xth “Brucchi Luchino” Labour Economics Workshop, December, Bank of Italy.

2007: XXXIInd SAE (Simposio de Analisis Economico), Dicembre, University of Granada.

2007: XVIth AISSEC (Italian Association for the Comparative Study of Economic Systems), June, University of Parma.

2007: IVth Workshop for Italian PhD Students in Economics (WISE), June, University of Salerno.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English: Fluent
Italian: Mother language