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CEEL Summer school Eleventh summer school Biographical sketches of instructor and guest lecturers

 
     
Biographical sketches of instructor and guest lecturers

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MICHAEL BORDO

MACELLO DE CECCO

ANDREW HALDANE

DANIEL HEYMANN

PETER HOWITT

LARS JONUNG

KATARINA JUSELIUS

AXEL LEIJONHUFVUD

WERNER ROEGER

ROBERTO TAMBORINI

ENRICO ZANINOTTO

 

 MICHAEL BORDO Index

Michael D. Bordo is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. During the Academic year 2006-2007, he was Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University. He has held previous academic positions at the University of South Carolina and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University and a Visiting Scholar at the IMF, Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis and Cleveland, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlement. He also is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has a B.A. degree from McGill University, a M.Sc.(Econ) from the London School of Economics and he received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1972. He has published many articles in leading journals and ten books in monetary economics and monetary history. He is editor of a series of books for Cambridge University Press: Studies in Macroeconomic History.
Recent publications include: with with Barry Eichengreen, A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods International Monetary System, University of Chicago Press, 1993; with Claudia Goldin and Eugene White, The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, University of Chicago Press, 1998; Essays on the Gold Standard and Related Regimes, Cambridge University Press, 1999; with Alan Taylor and Jeffery Williamson. Globalization in Historical Perspective. University of Chicago Press, 2003.

 

 MACELLO DE CECCO Index

Born in 1939, LL.B ( Parma,1961), B.A. Econ (Cambridge,1964) is professor of monetary and financial history at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Going back in time, he was professor of Monetary economics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, at the Istituto Universitario Europeo in Fiesole and in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Siena, and a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

In the course of his academic careeer, he was a professorial fellow at St,Antony’s College, Oxford and at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh , the Ecole Nationale d’administration (ENA) in Paris and at the London School of Economics, a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and of the Wissenschafts Kolleg zu Berlin. He held the Amadeo Giannini Chair of Italian culture in the faculty of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, Washington and at the Centers for European Studies and International Studies at Harvard University, and a member of the joint Harvard-MIT Seminar.

He is a member of the Board of the Istituto dell’ Enciclopedia Italiana, of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla,. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Unicredit bank, and of Mediobanca’s Ricerche & Studi.

Previously, he was an executive director of the Monte dei Paschi di Siena and of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, of the Italian International Bank in London and of the CREDIOP bank. From 1997 to 2000, and again in 2007-8 he was a member of the the Italian Prime Minister ‘s Council of Economic Advisers. for a decade he was chair of the scientific committee of the Ente Einaudi per gli studi monetari, bancari e finanziari in Rome. He has been vice-president of the Italian Economic Association.

His publication include “Money and Empire” (Blackwell, 1974 ), “Changing Money “(Blackwell, 1984) and several other books and articles on money and finance in international journals. He contributed two entries to the New Palgrave Dictionary (on the Gold Standard and on Foreign Exchange Markets).

 

 ANDREW HALDANE Index

Andrew Haldane became Executive Director, Financial Stability on 1 January 2009. The Financial Stability area plays a key role in meeting the Bank's responsibilities for maintaining the stability of the financial system as a whole. In this role, Andrew has responsibility for developing Bank policy on financial stability issues and the management of the Financial Stability Area. Andrew is a member of the Financial Stability Executive Board, which gives high level guidance on priority-setting, and of the Bank's Executive Management Team.
Before taking up his current role, Andrew set up and headed the Systemic Risk Assessment Division within the Financial Stability area of the Bank from 2005. His previous roles include: Head of the Market Infrastructure Division; Head of the International Finance Division; and a secondment to the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that he worked in Monetary Analysis, on various issues regarding monetary policy strategy, inflation targeting and Central Bank independence.
Andrew was born on 18 August 1967 and is married with two children. His interests include football and cricket. Andrew is co-founder of a charity 'Pro Bono Economics', which aims to broker economists into projects in the charitable sector.
Andrew graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1988 with a BA in Economics. He went on to take an MA in Economics at the University of Warwick before joining the Bank in 1989.
Andrew has written extensively on domestic and international monetary and financial stability, authoring around 80 articles and three books on issues including inflation targeting, central bank independence, international financial crises, financial stability frameworks and payment systems. He is a member of various international public policy committees, economics associations, editorial boards and academic advisory committees.

 

 DANIEL HEYMANN Index

Licenciate in Economics and in Physics, University of Buenos Aires; Ph. D. in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles. Senior Economist, CEPAL Buenos Aires. Professor of Economics, Universities of Buenos Aires, La Plata, San Andrés. Member: National Academy of Economic Sciences (Argentina). President: Argentine Political Economy Association (AAEP), term 2008- 2010. University of Buenos Aires: Prize for Academic Distinction in Economics, 2009.

Some publications and papers: High Inflation, Oxford University Press, 1995 (in collaboration with A. Leijonhufvud), “Business cycles from misperceived trends”, Economic Notes, N°2, 1998 (in collaboration with P. Sanguinetti), “Grandes perturbaciones macroeconómicas, expectativas y respuestas de política”, Revista de la CEPAL, abril 2000, “Learning about trends: spending and credit fluctuations in open economies” (in collaboration with M. Kaufman and P. Sanguinetti), in A. Leijonhufvud, ed.: Monetary theory as a basis for monetary policy, Palgrave, 2001;”Great Expectations and Hard Times: The Argentine Convertibility”, Economia, Spring 2003 (in collaboration with S. Galiani and M. Tommasi), "Learning and Imitation: Transitional Dynamics in Variants of the BAM", Advances in Complex Systems, No 1, 2004 (in collaboration with R. Perazzo and A. Schuschny), “On Liability Dollarization: A Simple Model with Financially Closed and Open Economies”(in collaboration with E. Kawamura), working paper, CEPAL Buenos Aires, 2005; “Buscando la Tendencia: Crisis Macroeconómica y Recuperación en la Argentina”, Serie Estudios y Perspectivas 31, CEPAL Buenos Aires, 2006, “Two Essays on Development Economics”, Documento No34 Serie Estudios y Perspectivas 34, CEPAL Buenos Aires, 2006 (in collaboration with S. Galiani, C. Dabús and F. Tohmé), “Desarrollos y Alternativas: Algunas Perspectivas del Análisis Macroeconómico“, in D. Heymann, ed.: Progresos en Macroeconomía, 2007; “On the Emergence of Public Education in Land- Rich Economies”, Journal of Development Economics, 86, 2, June 2008, “Macroeconomics of Broken Promises”, in R. Farmer, ed.: Macroeconomics in the Small and the Large, Elgar, 2008, On Types of Crisis, in www.vox eu 3063, 2009

 

 PETER HOWITT Index

Peter Howitt is Professor of Economics at Brown University. After receiving a PhD at Northwestern University under Bob Clower's supervision, he went to the University of Western Ontario where he taught from 1972 to 1994. He has written extensively on monetary economics, growth theory, Keynesian economics and the theory of unemployment. He is currently working on agent-based macroeconomic modelling. From 1995 to 2000 he taught at the Ohio State University and since 2000 he has been Professor at Brown University, Rhode Island.

 

 LARS JONUNG Index

Lars Jonung joined DG ECFIN, European Commission, Brussels, as a research adviser in September 2000. He was previously professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. His research interests include monetary economics, monetary and financial history, the euro, European integration and the economics of Knut Wicksell. He has published books and articles in English and wedish and is the co-author of the leading macroeconomic textbook in Swedish. Jonung served as chief economic adviser to Prime Minister Carl Bildt in 1992-94. He has been on the board of a number of listed Swedish companies and has served as economic adviser to the Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. Most recently, he published as co-editor Building the financial foundations of the euro - Experiences and challenges, (with C. Walkner and M. Watson as co-editors) and The Great Financial Crisis in Finland and Sweden (with J. Kiander and P. Vartia as co-editors). He received his Ph.D from University of California, Los Angeles. Starting July 1st 2010, he will be guest professor at Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

 

 KATARINA JUSELIUS Index

Katarina Juselius is professor in econometrics and empirical economics at the University of Copenhagen. She has led several large research projects on macroeconomic transmission mechanisms in Europe and been involved in the analysis of numerous (around 300) empirical macro models. She has published extensively in econometric journals, authored the book ‘The Cointegrated VAR model: Methodology and Applications’, OUP, been a member of the Danish Social Sciences Research Council, and the chairperson of the EuroCore Programme of the European Science Foundation. In 1990-2000 she was nr 8 in one of Coupe´s ranking lists of cited economists in the world.

 

 AXEL LEIJONHUFVUD Index

Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly as Chairman of the Economics Department. In 1991, he started the Center for Computable Economics at UCLA and remained its Director until 1997. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at the University of Trento, Italy. His research has particularly dealt with the limits to an economy's ability to coordinate activities as revealed by great depressions, high inflations and (recently) transitions from socialist towards market economies.

 

 WERNER ROEGER Index

Werner Roeger (born 16/06/1955 in Göppingen Germany) is head of the unit "econometric models and medium term studies" at the Directorate General for Economics and Finance of the European Commission in Brussels. He received his PhD from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and worked at the Institute for Applied Economic Research at the University of Tübingen before joining the European Commission in 1988. In 2001 he was a visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. In his work within the Commission he is responsible for developing and maintaining the international macro model QUEST III and for the regular calculation of medium term projections and output gaps for EU member states. His main research interests cover both fiscal and structural policies and he has published widely in the field of macroeconomics and applied econometrics.

 

 ROBERTO TAMBORINI Index

Affiliation: Since 2001, Ordinary Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Trento.
Education: Graduation in Economics, University of Modena, 1982. M.Phil. in Economics, University of Cambridge (UK), 1984, and Ph.D. at the European University Institute, Florence, 1991. Further training and research in international institutions include University of California at Berkeley (USA) 1993, Boston University (USA) (1995), IDEFI-CNRS, Sophia-Antipolis, Nice (France), 1999.
Research activity: Research in recent years has mainly concentrated on macroeconomic theories and policies, money and financial markets, policies and institutions. In the field of macroeconomic theories, particular attention has been devoted to the microeconomic foundations, with particular regard to decision-making under uncertainty, incomplete information, bounded rationality. In the monetary and financial field, research has focused on new theories of imperfect capital markets, based on asymmetric information or on bounded rationality, and their implication for economic activity. Macro-policy research has mainly concerned the debate on the Maastricht Treaty and the creation of the European Monetary Union, in particular the fiscal-monetary policy-mix problems ensuing from imperfect markets as analyzed in the above-mentioned research fields. Research activity has mainly been carried out jointly with groups financed by national and international agencies.
Scientific activity has produced national and international publications of monographs, contributions to collective books articles in refereed journals, among which Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Common Market Studies, Open Economies Review, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Metroeconomica, Giornale degli Economisti, Rivista di Politica Economica, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti.

 

 ENRICO ZANINOTTO Index

Enrico Zaninotto is professor of Business Economics at the University of Trento. He was educated at the University of Venice and at the Catholic University of Louvain la Neuve. He joined the University of Trento in 1994, after the University of Venice and the University L. Bocconi of Milan. At the University of Trento he leaded the Rock, group of Research on Organisation, Coordination and Knowledge. He published papers on production theory, standard diffusion and modularization. Current research is focussed on two main topics: coordination theory and entrepreneurship and firm dynamics.

 

 

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