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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.
Currently Head of Research and Policy Analysis, Bank for International
Settlements. At the BIS since 1987, covering various responsibilities in the
Monetary and Economic Department including, prior to the current appointment,
being the Head of the Secretariat that services two standing committees of senior
central bank officials from the G-10 countries, the Committee on the Global
Financial System and the Gold and Foreign Exchange Committee, which
examine, inter alia, issues related to financial market developments and
functioning. 1985-1987: worked as economist at the OECD in the country studies
branch of the Economics and Statistics Department. Prior to that Lecturer and
Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford University. Holder of a DPhil and
MPhil in Economics and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the
same university. Author of numerous publications in the fields of monetary policy,
banking, finance and issues related to financial stability.
Domenico Delli Gatti obtained a Doctoral Degree (Dottorato) in Economics at Catholic University
In 1987. At present he is Economics Professor, Faculty of Economics, Catholic University in Milan.
He has been Visiting scholar in many universities among which: Washington University in Saint Louis (987, 1988); University of Cambridge (1988),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1989), Stanford University (1990,1991), New School for Social Research (1995), University of California
in Santa Cruz (1997), Santa Fe Institute (2004).
His research interests are: Financial factors and business fluctuations. The transmission mechanism of monetary policy (financial accelerator).
Heterogeneity and interaction in macro-dynamic models.
http://www.unicatt.it/docenti/delligatti
Mauro Gallegati obtained his Ph-D in Economics in 1989 at the University of Ancona. Since 1995, he is Professor of
Economics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, and President of the Society for Economic Sciences
with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (ESHIA). His research includes complexity, financial fragility and
nonlinear dynamics, and applied economics. Recently, he has been working on developing theory of
heterogeneous interacting agent models as well as their empirical testing. Mauro Gallegati published
more than 70 papers on top journals of economics, econometrics, applied economics, history of economic
analysis, economic history, physics, and mathematics. His most recent book is Emergent Macroeconomics.
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.
Didier Sornette holds the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) since March 2006
where he teaches on financial market risks and on entrepreneurial risks.
He is a member of the Swiss Finance Institute. He is also a professor associated with the department of Physics and with the department
of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich.
He is also the Director of Research of Insight Research LLC, a R&D California based company providing softwares for financial risks
and consulting services in trading.
Didier Sornette received the Science et Defence Young Investigator French National Award (1985), the 2000 Research McDonnell
award on Studying Complex Systems, the Scientific Prediction of Crises and the Risques-Les Echos prize 2002 for his work on
``Predictability of catastrophic events: material rupture, earthquakes, turbulence, financial crashes and human birth.''
Didier Sornette's research interests include the prediction of crises and extreme events in complex systems (with applications
to finance, economics, marketing, earthquakes, rupture, biology, medecine); Finance and economics: bubbles and crashes,
large risks and tail dependence, theory of derivatives, portfolio optimization, trading strategies, insurance, macro-economics,
agent-based models, market microstructures; Physics of complex systems and pattern formation in spatio-temporal structures,
dynamical system theory, pattern recognition, self-organized criticality, time series analysis and prediction tools.
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.
Gianni Toniolo is Research Professor of Economics and History at Duke University and Visiting Professor at LUISS (Roma)
and the University of Trento. He is a CEPR Research Fellow, a member of the European Academy, co-editor of Rivista di
Storia Economica, and a regular contributor to Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy’s main financial daily).
He was previously professor of economics at Ca’Foscari, the University of Venice (1987-1996) and at the Università
di Roma “Tor Vergata” (1996-2007). He was also a founder and first academic head of Venice International University.
A past President of the European Historical Economics Society, Gianni Toniolo held visiting positions at the
Universities of Connecticut, Hitotsubashi (Tokyo), California at Berkeley, and at St. Antony's College and All Souls College, Oxford .
Toniolo's main research interests are twofold: a) the economic development Europe (with special but
not exclusive emphasis on Italy) from 1800 to the present and b) monetary, banking and financial history
with special emphasis on central banking He is the author or editor of 16 books in Italian, 8 books in English,
and over 60 articles and essays in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
His most recent books are: The World Economy Between the World Wars, Oxford University Press,
Oxford 2008 (with C.H. Feinstein and, P.Temin), The Global Economy in the 1990s. A Long-run perspective,
Cambridge UP, Cambridge 2006 (edited with P. Rhode), Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International
Settlements 1930-1973, Cambridge UP, New York 2005.
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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