Bologna

Director:
Luigi A. Franzoni
Email.: ue.dhp-elde@inoznarf.igiul

Contact :
Mrs. Romina Kniaz and Mr. Adelio Garcia Alfisi
Tel.: +39 051 209 8869
Fax.: +39 051 209 8143
Email.: ue.dhp-elde@angolob

Postal Address:
Universite degli Studi di Bologna
School of Economics
Piazza Scaravilli 2
I-40126 Bologna

Director

Luigi A. Franzoni is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics of Bologna. He received his D.Phil. from the Nuffield College, Oxford, and has published in leading journals on the economic theory of settlements, law enforcement, tax amnesties and intellectual property. He is author of a well-received introduction to law and economics (Introduzione all'economia del diritto, Il Mulino, 2003).

Teaching Staff

Vincenzo Denicolò is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. He was Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (1996-97) and Visiting Professor at the European University Institute (1998). His main fields of research are the theory of social choice and the theory of industrial organization.
He has published extensively in respected economic journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory and the RAND Journal of Economics.

Marco Casari is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna. He earned a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, USA, in 2002. His main areas of interest are institutional economics and experimental economics. He has held positions at Purdue University, Autonoma University of Barcelona and Ohio State University. He has published in several journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and Experimental Economics.

Emanuela Carbonara is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna.
She obtained a D.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford in 1999. Moreover, she was a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and the Johns Hopkins University. She has published on economic analysis of contracts and regulation.
Her main research interests are the law and economics of contracts and market regulation.

Gianluca Fiorentini is Professor of Public Economics at the Faculty of Economics of Bologna. He has been professorial lecturer at Johns Hopkins University - Bologna Center, fellow at STICERD-LSE, and external examiner at Utrecht University. He has been involved in several expert groups dealing with competition policy, privatizations, nonprofit organizations, and the reform of the welfare state. Moreover, he has published in the areas of illegal markets, corruption, economic analysis of legal procedures, interest groups and public choice. Currently his main fields of interests are public intervention and regulation in human services (health, education, welfare) and health economics.

Marco Lamandini is Full Professor of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Bologna and Visiting Professor of Securities Law at the Faculty of Banking, Insurance and Financial Institutions of the Catholic University of Milan.
Marco Lamandini is the author of three law books (Il "controllo". Nozioni e "tipo" nella legislazione economica, Giuffr?, Milano, 1ed, 1994; Le concentrazioni bancarie, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1998; Struttura finanziaria e governo nelle societ? di capitali, Il Mulino., Bologna, 2001) and of many articles in his field of study.
Since 2002 he has acted as Special Expert for the European Parliament in the field of securities law and corporate governance.

Massimo Motta earned a PhD in Economics at the University of Louvain. He has taught at the University Pompeu Fabra, the European University Institute, and the University of Bologna. He is a Research Fellow of the CEPR and CESifo, as well as member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Competition Economists, of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission, and of the Expert Academic Panel of Ofcom, and has been elected in the Council of the European Economic Association (2008-2012). His book on Competition Policy: Theory and Practice(Cambridge University Press, 2004)is the standard international reference on the economics of antitrust.

Francesco Parisi is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Bologna and Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota School of Law.
He is Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review (Chicago University Press) and Co-Director of the Program in Economics and the Law at the J.M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy. Professor Parisi received his D.Jur. degree from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", an LL.M. and a J.S.D. and an M.A. degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D in Economics from George Mason University.
Professor Parisi is a member of the board of editors of the International Review of Law and Economics, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the Social Sciences Research Network.

Visiting Fellows

Gabriele Camera is the Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa. Prof. Camera holds a Ph.D. form the University of Iowa. Prior to joining the Faculty of the University of Iowa, he served as Associate Professor at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. Prof. Camera published in the leading economic journals, including the American Economic Review. His research focusses on Experimental Economics, Macroeconomics and Monetary Theory.

Georg von Wangenheim is Professor of Principles of Law, Private Law, and Economic Analysis of Civil Rights at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Kassel. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of "International Review of Law and Economics".
In 2001 Prof. von Wangenheim was Visiting Research Professor at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. From 1994 to 2001 he was Scientific Assistant at the Institut for Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg.

 

News

21.06.2010

First year EDLE programme graduates!

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19.06.2010

Summer School 2010

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05.05.2010

16 new Doctoral Students

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15.03.2010

Selection results

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