CEEL Staff Luigi Marengo

Luigi Marengo

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Born: May 17, 1960 in Turin, Italy.

Degrees

• Graduation in Economics, University of Torino, Italy, on November 22nd, 1985, with full marks 110 out of 110, cum laude and special mention.

• DPHIL in Science and Technology Policy Studies, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, awarded in January 1992. Title of the thesis: "Knowledge, Coordination and Learning in an Adaptive Model of the Firm".

Positions

• March-October 1994:
  Research Fellow at IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria, within the research project "Systems Analysis of Economic and Technologic Dynamics".

• November 1992, May 1993 and November 1994:
  Maître de Conferences Invité, Bureau d'Economie Theorique et Appliquée, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasburg, France.

• January-October 1992:
  Part-time research fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, England.

• March-April 1989:
  Visiting Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems Analysis, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.

• Present Position:
  Research Fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Trento.

Main research interests

• Microeconomics, and especially the economics of information firms and organizations.

• Applications of Articial Intelligence methodologies to the study of decision-making and organizations.

• Economics of innovation and technological change.

• Learning and decision-making in non-Bayesian models.

• Game theory.

Main Publications

1990

(with A. Sterlacchini), "Intersectoral Technology Flows: Methodological Aspects and Empirical Applications", Metroeconomica, vol. 41, 1990, pp. 19-39.

(with M. Vivarelli), "Una Riflessione sulla Teoria Evoluzionista: Microfondazioni e Aggregazione Macroeconomica", Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 67, 1990, pp. 189-203.

1992

"The Demand for Intermediate Goods in an Input-Ouput Framework: A Methodological Note", Economic Systems Research, vol. 4, 1992, pp. 49-52.

"Knowledge, Coordination and Learning in an Adaptive Model of the Firm", DPhil thesis, SPRU - University of Sussex, January 1992, under revision for publication as a book with Edward Elgar Publ. Co., with provisional title "The Firm as a Learning Institution".

"Coordination and Organizational Learning in the Firm", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 2, 1992, pp. 313-326.

1993

(with L. Beltrametti and R. Tamborini), "A Learning Experiment with Classifier System: The Determinants of the Dollar-Mark Exchange Rate", University of Trento, Department of Economics, Discussion Paper no. 5-1993.

1994

"Knowledge Distribution and Coordination in Organizations: On some Social Aspects of the Exploration vs. Exploitation Trade-Off", Revue Internationale de Systémique, vol. 7, 1994, pp. 553-571.

1995

(with F. Malerba), "Competence, Innovative Activities and Economic Performance in Italian High-Technology Firms", International Journal of Technology Management, vol. 10, 1995, pp. 96-112.

(with M.D. Cohen, R. Burkhart, G. Dosi, M. Egidi, M. Warglien and S.G. Winter), "Routines and Other Recurring Patterns of Organizations: Contemporary Research Issues", Santa Fe Institute WP 95-11-101, forthcoming in Industrial and Corporate Change.

"Structure, Competence, and Learning in Organizations", Wirtchaftspolitische Blätter, vol. 42, 1995, pp. 454-464.

(with G. Dosi), "Toward a Theory of Organizational Competencies", in R.W. England (ed.), Evolutionary Concepts in Contemporary Economics, Michigan University Press, 1995, pp. 157-178.

"Apprentissage, Compétences et Coordination dans les Organizations", in N. Lazaric and J.-M. Monnier (eds.) Coordination Economique et Apprentissage des Firmes, Economica, Paris, 1995, pp. 3-22.

(with M. Egidi), "Division of Labour and Social Coordination Modes", in G.N. Gilbert and R. Conte (eds.), Artificial societies: the computer simulation of social life, London, UCL Press, 1995, pp. 40-58.

1996

(with H. Tordjman), "Speculation, Heterogeneity and Learning: A Model of Exchange Rate Dynamics", KYKLOS, vol. 49, 1996, n. 3.

(with L. Beltrametti, R. Fiorentini and R. Tamborini), "A Learning-to-Forecast Experiment on the Foreign Exchange Market with a Classifier System", forthcoming in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

"Structure, Competence and Learning in an Adaptive Model of the Firm", in G. Dosi and F. Malerba (eds.), Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise, London, Macmillan, 1996, pp. 124-154.

(with G. Dosi, A. Bassanini e M. Valente), "Norms as Emergent Properties of Adaptive Learning: The case of economic routines", Working Paper WP-94-73, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria, 1994. French translation forthcoming in B. Reynaud (ed.) Les limites de la rationalité et la constitution du collectif, Ed. La Découverte, Paris, 1996.

(with G. Dosi and G. Fagiolo), "Learning in Evolutionary Environments", Working Paper IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria, 1996.

Publications on Polaris

Department of Economics via Inama, 5 I-38100 Trento tel. +39 461 282201