Curriculum vitae - Facoltà di Economia

ANNA BOTTASSO
WORK CONTACTS
Department of Economics, University of Genova
Via Vivaldi 5, 16124 Genova, Italy
Tel. ++39 10 2095700 ++39 3494684696
[email protected]
http://www.economia.unige.it
CAREER DETAILS
Professor
Department of Economics, University of Genova
from 2016
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, University of Genova
2000 - 2015
Research Fellow
from 2006
HERMES, Torino (Higher Education and Research on Mobility Regulation and the Economics of Local
Services)
Post Doc Fellow
Department of Economics, University of Genova
1999 - 2000
Research Fellow
CERIS CNR, Torino (Research Centre on Firm and Developement)
1996 - 1998
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Market imperfections and firms decisions
• Economics of Regulated Markets, Network Industries and Local Public Services
• Behavioural Economics
EDUCATION
PHD Economics
University of Pavia, Italy
1996
MSc Economics
University of Warwick, UK
1994
MSc Environmental and Energy Economics
ENI Corporate University, Milano, Italy
1992
Laurea (BSc) Economics (Summa cum Laude)
University of Genova, Italy
1991
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Microeconomics
Undergraduate
from 2014
University of Genova
Advanced Microeconomics
Postgraduate
from 2007
University of Genova
Econometrics
Undergraduate
2006-2007
University of Genova
Economic Policy
Undergraduate
2001-2006
University of Genova
Econometrics Tutorials
Undergraduate
1999-2007
University of Genova
REFEREE
Journal of Urban Economics; Oxford Economic Papers; Journal of Productivity Analysis; Review of
Industrial Organization; Empirica; Transportation Research; Journal of Transport, Economics and
Policy; Journal of Air Transport Management; Regional Studies; Economia Internazionale; L’industria;
International Journal of Transport Economics; Journal of industrial and business economics.
PHD SUPERVISION
Chiara Piccardo (Firms exports determinants and export-innovation relationship) (2010-2013)
Martina Bruno (Essays on applied economics) (2011-2014)
Simona Baldi (Public procurements and local institutions characteristics) (2011-2014)
Alessandro Spiganti (Financial Constraints and firms decisions) (2012-2015)
Stefania Mortola (Essays on Experimental Economics) (2012-2015)
Paolo Marocco (Essays in Experimental Economics) (2015-2018)
SELECTED ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENTS
Director of the PHD program in Economics and Quantitative Methods of the University of Genova
(from 2016)
Member of the Research Commettee of the Department of Economics, University of Genova (from 2014)
Member of the Selection Commettee of the 5th Italian Congress of Econometrics and Empirical Economics (IEEE), Genova (2013)
Member of the Selection Commettee of the International Association of Maritime Economist (IAME)
Conference, Marsiglia (2013)
Member of the Selection Commettee of the 54th Annual congress of the Italian Economic Society,
Bologna (2013)
Member of the scientific board of the PHD program in Economics and Quantitative Methods of the
University of Genova (from 2007)
Member of the Scientific Commettee for Assistant professor Public examinations at University fo Pavia
and Milan.
SELECTED SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANCY
Analysis of the tariff design for mooring services, Associazione Nazionale Gruppo Ormeggiatori Porti
italiani, (2012)
Efficiency analysis of courts, Ordine degli Avvocati di Chiavari, (2012)
The economic impact of the Genova Fiera, Ente Fiera della Regione Liguria (2012)
Quantitative techniques for regulatory benchmarking, UK Office for Rail Regulation (2011)
Tariffs revision analysis, Societa’ Porto Petroli di Genova (2010)
SELECTED CONGRESS
(2016) Italian Network Regulation Economists (NERI), Roma
(2015) Annual Congress of the Italian Industrial Economics Society (SIEPI), Milano; Italian Congress
of Econometrics and Empirical Economics (ICEE) Salerno; Annual Congress of the Italian Transport
Economics Society (SIET) Milano; Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial
Economics (EARIE) Monaco.
(2014) Annual Congress of the Italian Industrial Economics Society (SIEPI), Napoli; Eropean Trade
Study Group (ETSG) Congress Monaco; Annual Congress of the Italian Economics Society (SIE)
Trento; Annual Congress of the Italian Transport Economics Society (SIET) Firenze.
(2013) Annual Congress of the Italian Economics Society (SIE) Bologna; Annual Congress of the
Italian Transport Economics Society (SIET) Venezia; International association of Maritime Economists
(IAME) Marsiglia.
(2012) Annual Congress of the Italian Economics Societ (SIE), Matera; Italian Network Regulation
Economists (NERI) Torino; First Annual Conference on the Regulation of Infrastructure Industries,
Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, Firenze; Annual Congress of the Italian
Transport Economics Society (SIET) Bari.
PUBLICATIONS ON ISI JOURNALS
• Baldi S., Bottasso A., Conti M., Piccardo C. (2016) To bid or not to bid: that is the question: Public procurement, project complexity and corruption, European Journal of Political Economy,(DOI:
10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2016.04.002)
• Ferrara M., Bottasso A., Tempesta D., De Gennaro L., Ponti G. (2015) Gender Differences in Sleep
Deprivation Effects on Risk and Inequality Aversion: Evidence from an Economic Experiment,
PLOS One (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120029)
• Bottasso A., Castagnetti C., Conti M. (2015) ”RD, innovation and knowledge spillovers: A reappraisal of Bottazzi and Peri (2007) in the presence of cross sectional dependence”, Journal of
Applied Econometrics 30: 177-352 (DOI: 10.1002/jae.2392)
• Bottasso A., Conti M., Ferrari C., Tei A. (2014) Ports and local development: A spatial analysis on
a panel of European regions, Transportation Research Part A 65: 44-55 (DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.04.006)
• Bottasso A., Castagnetti C., Conti M. (2013) And yet they co-move! Public capital and productivity in OECD, Journal of Policy Modeling 35: 713-729 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2013.02.007)
• Bottasso A., Conti M., Ferrari C., Merk O., Tei A. (2013) The impact of port throughput on
local employment: Evidence from a panel of European regions, Transport Policy 27: 32-38 (DOI:
10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.12.001)
• Bottasso A., Conti M., C. Piga (2013), Low-cost carriers and airports performance: empirical
evidence from a panel of UK airports, Industrial and Corporate change 22 (3): 745-769 (DOI:
10.1093/icc/dts033)
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2012) The cost structure of the UK airports industry, Journal of Transport
Economics and Policy 46 (3): 313-332 (2-s2.0-84866317128)
• Bottasso A., Conti M., Ferrari C. (2011) Efficiency and productivity growth in a sample of Italian
container terminal, International Journal of Transport Economics XXXVIII, 2: 107-122, (DOI:
10.1400/168962)
• Bottasso A., Conti M., Piacenza M., Vannoni D. (2011) The appropriateness of the poolability
assumption for multiproduct technologies: Evidence from the English water and sewerage utilities,
International Journal of Production Economics 130: 112-117, (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.12.002)
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2010) The productive effect of transport infrastructures: Does road transport liberalization matter?, Journal of Regulatory Economics 38: 2748, (DOI: 10.1007/s11149010-9115-2)
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2009) Price cap regulation and the ratchet effect: a generalized index
approach, Journal of Productivity Analysis 32: 191-201, (DOI: 10.1007/s11123-009-0140-z)
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2009) Scale economies, technology and technical change in the water
industry: Evidence from the English water only sector, Regional Science and Urban Economics
39: 138-147, (DOI: 10.1016 /j.regsciurbeco. 2008.05.017)
• Bottasso A., Sembenelli A. (2004), Does ownership affects firms efficiency? Panel data evidence
on Italy, Empirical Economics 29: 769-786.
• Bottasso A. e Sembenelli A. (2001),Market power, productivity and the EU Single Market Program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data, European Economic Review 45: 167-186
(DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(99)00070-7)
PUBLICATIONS ON REFEREED JOURNALS AND BOOKS
• Baldi S., Bottasso A., Conti M., Piccardo C. (2014) Modalit di affidamento dei lavori pubblici.
Unanalisi empirica su dati Italiani L’ Industria 4: 621-642, (DOI: 10.1430/78940).
• Bottasso A., Conti M., Ferrari C., Tei A. (2013) Alcune riflessioni sulla pratica regolatoria, con
riferimento ad alcuni settori dellindustria dei trasporti Rivista di Economia Politica dei Trasporti
3.
• Bottasso A., Cardullo G. e Conti M. (2013) Labour market deregulation and wage dispersion:
Does product market competition matter? The case of the EU electricity industry, International
Journal of Applied Economics 10(2): 1-9.
• Bottasso A., Piccardo C. (2013) Export activity and firm heterogeneity: A survey of the empirical
evidence for Italy, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 40(4): 27-61.
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2012) Il servizio idrico Italiano dopo i referendum del Giugno 2011: Una
nota, Economia e Diritto del Terziario 2: 267-282.
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2012) Concorrenza e regolazione nel settore aeroportuale in Europa, Mercato concorrenza e regole 1: 117-142.
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2011) La governance del settore idrico italiano e le recenti riforme dei
servizi pubblici locali: tanto rumore per nulla? Economia dei servizi 2: 161-180.
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2008) Economie di scala e di densit nel settore idrico: Ulteriore evidenza
empirica per lInghilterra, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti 2: 273-29.
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2007) Efficiency incentives for a regulated monopoly: Some lessons from
the English and Welsh water industry, Rivista di Politica Economica VII-VIII: 115-143.
• Amato A., Bottasso A., Conti M. (2006) ”La Performance dellindustria idrica Inglese. Un analisi
critica a 15 anni dalla privatizzazione, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics 2: 91-119.
• Bottasso A., Galeotti M. e Sembenelli A. (1999), The impact of financing constraints on markups:
Further evidence from Italian firm level data, in Micro-and Macrodata of firms. Statistical analysis
and International Comparison, S. Biffignandi (ed.), Springer-Verlag, pag. 645-660.
• Bottasso A. (1998), Le Importazioni come incentivo alla concorrenza: Levidenza empirica internazionale e il caso del Mercato Unico Europeo, Economia Internazionale LI: 295-313.
• Bottasso A., (1998), La relazione tra struttura finanziaria e decisioni reali delle imprese: Una
rassegna critica dellevidenza empirica., Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia 1: 109155.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
• Ferrari C., Merk O., Bottasso A., Conti M., Tei A (2012) Ports and regional development: a
European perspective, OECD Regional Development WP 2012/07; (ISSN :2073-7009 ; DOI:
10.1787/5k92z71jsrs6-en)
• Bottasso A. Conti M. (2011) Quantitative techniques for regulatory benchmarking, CERRE Study,
Bruxelles, http://cerre.eu/quantitative-techniques-regulatory-benchmarking
• Bottasso A. Conti M. (2011) Le gare nel settore idrico servono davvero? Alcune riflessioni sul
primo quesito referendario, www.nelmerito.com
• Bottasso A. Conti M. (2011) Impedire alle imprese di guadagnare sul capitale investito porta
davvero a tariffe pi basse?, www.nelmerito.com
• Bottasso A., Conti M. (2003), Cost inefficiency in the English and Welsh water Iindustry: An
heterosckedastic stochastic cost frontier approach, Discussion Paper 573, University of Essex.
(http://www.essex.ac.uk/economics/discussion-papers/papers-text/dp573.pdf). (E213744 - ISSN:
1755-5361).
WORK IN PROGRESS
• Bottasso A., Conti M., Sulis G. (2016) ”Firm Dynamics and Employment Protection: Evidence
from Sectoral Data”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 9740
• Piccardo C., Bottasso A., Benfratello L. (2015) Innovative capacity and export performance: Exploring heterogeneity along the export intensity distribution, WP Csef n.371.
• Bottasso A., Bruno M., Conti M., Piga C. (2015) Competition, vertical relationship and countervailing power: empirical evidence from the UK airport industry.