CURRICULUM VITAE Luca Spinesi
Address and Contacts:
Via Crescimbeni, 20 62100 Macerata (MA) e-mail: [email protected]
Current Position
Lecturer at the University of Macerata (Italy).
Education
April 2007: Ph.D in Economics at the Université Catholique de Louvain;
Supervisor: Prof. Raouf Boucekkine.
April 2003: Doctorate in Economics attended at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Supervisor: Prof. Guido Cozzi.
July 1998: Bachelor Degree in Economics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Grade: 110/110 cum Laude.
Teaching
2003-current: graduate course in Microeconomics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
2006-current: graduate course in Economic Growth and Policy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
2007-current: undergraduate course in Industrial Organization at the University of Macerata.
2006-current: undergraduate course in Microeconomics at the University of Macerata.
2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006: undergraduate courses of Political Economy and Monetary Economics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
2004-2005: undergraduate courses of Microeconomics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
Publications
• “Rent-Seeking Bureaucracies, Inequality, and Growth”, Journal of Development Economics, article in press.
• “Creative Destruction Meets Economic Geography: Globalization, Inequality, and Innovation Strategies”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming.
• “A Schumpeterian Model of Wage Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement”, with Carmelo Parello, on the volume “Intellectual Property, Competition and Growth edited by Roberto Cellini e Guido Cozzi Palgrave Macmillan, January 2007.
• “Intellectual Appropriability, Product Differentiation, and Growth”, with Guido Cozzi, Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 10 (1), 2006.
• “How much is Horizontal Innovation Consistent with Vertical Innovation?”, with Guido Cozzi Research in Economics, vol. 60 (1), 2006.
• “R&D and Espionage: Effects on Income Level, Growth, and Inequality”, con Guido Cozzi, Cuadernos Economicos, December 2006.
• “Partial Imitation, Inequality, and Growth” with Carmelo Parello, on the volume “Innovation, Unemployment and Policy in the Theories of Growth and Distribution”, edited by Neri Salvadori and Renato Balducci, Edward Elgar, Chentenham, UK.
• “Information Transmission and Bounds to Growth”, with Guido Cozzi, The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy; 2004, Vol. 4, Issue 1 Article 6.
• “Essays on Information, Innovation, and Growth.” Rivista Italiana degli Economisti n.2, 2004
Working papers
• “IPR for Public and Private Innovations, and Growth” Discussion Paper UCL 2007-15.
• “Vertical and Horizontal Innovation: Effects of Globalization and Migration on Inequality, Growth and Human Capital Accumulation.”, ECON Discussion Papers, UCL, Louvain-la- Neuve, 2005-28.
• “Rent-Seeking Bureaucracies in a Schumpeterian Endogenous Growth Model: Effects on Human Capital Accumulation, Inequality, and Growth”, ECON Discussion Papers, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2005-27.
Prizes
October 2003: Prize for the best italian Ph.D thesis in Economics awarded by the Italian Society of Economists.
Honors and Awards
Member of the research project GARNET Network of Excellence, financed by the EU, 2008.
Member of a National Funded Research Project for the University of Pisa, 2005-2007.
Member of a National Funded Research Project for the University of Pisa, 2002-2004.
Research fellowship, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2003-2005.
Research fellowship, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2000-2001.
Graduate Scholarship, Italian Ministry of Scientific Research (MURST), 2000-2003.
Seminars and Conferences presentations
Ecole Politechnique of Paris; Royal Economic Society Meeting 2009 at the University College of London; University of Bath; Toulouse School of Economics; EPIP Conference 2008 at the University of Bern; University of Strasbourg; Université Catholique de Luovain; IMT Lucca;
University of Ghent-Matagne; University of Oslo; University of Rome “La Sapienza”; University LUISS Guido Carli of Rome; University Catholic of Milan; University “Statale” of Milan;
University “Politecnica delle Marche”.
Research Interests
Politics for Innovation and Economic Growth, Economic Dynamics, Political Economy, Industrial Organisation.
Professional Activities
Referee: Journal of Economic Growth; International Economic Review; Berkeley Journal, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Metroeconomica.
Languages Italian: native English: fluent.
French: Average.
