Carluccio Bianchi Full Professor of Economic Policy Tel.: +39 0382/986212  Fax: +39 0382/304226  cbianchi@eco.unipv.it

Curriculum vitae

Graduate in Economics at the University of Pavia in 1972. Marco Fanno Scholarship in 1973/74; BA in Economics at the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1974. Senior Researcher in Economics at the University of Pavia since 1981. Full Professor of Economic Policy since 1987 (Universities of Pisa, Parma and Pavia in sequence). Lecturer of  Economic Policy and Business Cycle Analysis at the University of Pavia. Program Director of the PhD Program in Economics at the University of Pavia in the decade 1996-2006. At present Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Pavia (2006-2012).

Research interests

Macroeconomics, monetary and international economics, economic policy, applied macroeconomics.

Performance and problems of the Italian economy.

Recent Publications

Balance of Payments Constraints in the Italian Economy, in L. Punzo - B. Bohm (Eds.), Economic Performance. A Look at Austria and Italy, Physica Verlag, Berlino, 1994.

Differenziali regionali di produttività e crescita economica: un riesame della convergenza in Italia nel periodo 1970-1994 (with M. Menegatti), Studi economici, n. 63, 1997.

L'economia italiana e i problemi della politica economica, II Edizione, Guerini Studio, Milano, 1998.

La convergenza fra le regioni del Nord Italia: una verifica empirica (with M. Menegatti), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, anno CVII, aprile-giugno1999.

Politica monetaria e riequilibrio dei conti pubblici, in L. Bernardi (a cura di) La finanza pubblica italiana. Rapporto 2000, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2000.

The New Political Economy of Central Banking - Comment, in A. Leijonhufvud (Ed.), Monetary Theory and Policy Experience, Palgrave, 2001, pp. 210-219.

A Reappraisal of Verdoorn's Law for the Italian Economy: 1951-1997, in J. McCombie, M. Pugno and B. Soro (Eds.), Productivity Growth and Economic Performance: Essays on Verdoorn's Law, Palgrave, 2002, pp. 115-135.

The Monetary Circuit and Income Distribution: Bankers as Landlors? (with G. Lunghini), in N. Salvatori and R. Arena (Eds), Money, Credit and the Role of the State. Essays in Honour of Augusto Graziani, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004, pp. 151-173.

The Growth Performance and Prospects in Europe: a Kaldorian Approach, Quaderni di Ricerca del Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Metodi Quantitativi, Università di Pavia, n. 164, 2004.

Disuguaglianza e crescita: una analisi empirica applicata all'esperienza recente delle regioni italiane (with M. Menegatti), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, anno CXIV, 2006, pp. 525-543.  

On the Potential Pitfalls in Estimating Beta-Convergence by means of Pooled and Panel Data (with M. Menegatti), Applied Economics Letters, n. 14, 2007, pp. 963-967.

Neoclassical versus Technological Convergence: an Empirical Analysis Applied to the Italian Regions (with M. Menegatti), Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, anno CXVI, 2008, pp. 271-287.  

Pitfalls in Estimating Beta-Convergence by means of Panel Data: an Empirical Test (with F. Calidoni and M. Menegatti), International Review of  Economics, n. 56 (4), 2009, pp. 347-357.

A Copula-VAR-X Approach for Industrial Production Modelling and Forecasting (with A. Carta, D. Fantazzini, M. E. De Giuli and M. Maggi), Applied Economics, n. 42 (45), 2010, pp. 3267-3277.  

Copula-VAR and Copula-VAR-GARCH Modeling: Dangers for Value at Risk and Impulse Response Functions (with M.E. De Giuli, D. Fantazzini and M. Maggi), in G. N. Gregoriou, C. Hoppe e C.S. Wehn (Eds.), The Risk Modeling Evaluation Handbook: Rethinking Financial Risk Management Methodologies in the Global Capital Markets, ch. 20, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2010, pp. 321-338.  

Rules versus Discretion in Fiscal Policy  (with Mario Menegatti), The Manchester School, 2012 (forthcoming) doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9957.2011.02240.x. .  

Small Sample Properties of Copula-GARCH Modelling: A Monte Carlo Study (with Dean Fantazzini, Maria Elena De Giuli and Mario Maggi), Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 21, n. 21, 2011, pp. 1587-1597.

Come misurare l'evoluzione congiunturale a livello locale? Una proposta metodologica (with Donatella Baiardi), Rivista di Scienze Regionali, 2012 (forthcoming)..