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Current Position
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, Colorado State University.
Previous Positions
July 2015 – June 2021: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Colorado State University. Director of Graduate Studies since August 2017.
August 2009 – June 2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Colorado State University.
Other Appointments
September 2015 – December 2015: Visiting Scholar, Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome.
December 2011 – January 2012 and May – June 2013: Visiting Professor, Faculty of International Economics and Business, Foreign Trade University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Research Fields
Economic Growth, Income Distribution, Applied Macroeconomics, Political Economy.
Teaching Fields
Macroeconomics, Political Economy, Microeconomics, Economic Growth, Mathematical Economics, Mathematics for Economists, Econometrics.
Education
- 2009: Ph.D. Economics, The New School for Social Research. Dissertation Title: `Directed Technical Change with Applications to Environmental Economics and Labor Market Institutions’. Dissertation Committee: Duncan K. Foley (Chair), M. Ali Khan, Willi Semmler.
- 2009: Doctorate, Political Economy, University of Rome\La Sapienza”. Dissertation Title: `Endogenous Technical Change, Growth and Business Cycles: Three Essays’. Advisor: Guido Cozzi.
- 2008: M.Phil, Economics, The New School for Social Research. Qualifying Fields: Microeconomics, Econometrics.
- 2004: Summer School in Time Series Econometrics, CIDE, Bertinoro (FO), Italy.
- 2003: M.A., Public Economics, University of Rome `La Sapienza’. Qualifying Field: Economics of Public Administration.
- 2002: Laurea (BA), Economics, University of Rome `La Sapienza’.