Development and usage of economic models for the analysis of European and international agricultural policies

Development Economics
Trade and Agriculture
CGE models and SAMs

2009, “Impacts and Policy Responses to a Commodity Price Boom:The Case of Malawi” (with Piero Conforti and Alexander Sarris), FAO Commodity and Trade Policy Research Working Paper No. 27

2008, “A Structuralist Model of the Mexican Financial System: Liberalization and Real-Financial Interactions with Endogenous Money”, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Florence.

OCTOBER 1ST 2008 - JULY 31 2009
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - ESTT
Consultant
Analysis of the consequences of the recent variability in world commodity prices and of effects of a set of policies aimed at counteracting such effects on Developing Countries (Malawi). Identification of the countries on the basis of the available Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) and their time frame. Re-organization and re-balancing of the SAMs. Calibration of the model on the adjusted SAM. Computation of world price changes. Design of realistic counterfactual policy scenarios with GAMS. Analysis of the results, especially in terms of GDP, output and price changes in different activities, trade, consumption, public finance, investment, factors’ income and household welfare. Discussion of the closure rules. Sensitivity analysis to changes in key parameters.

MARCH 21TH 2007 – JUNE 23TH 2007
Economic Commission for Latin America & Caribbean (ECLAC – CEPAL) Subregional Headquarters in Mexico Practicante ad-honorem
Construction of a Financial Accounting Matrix. Analysis of the financial sector of the country, discussion and presentation of my work to academics of UNAM, COLMEX, and FLAXCO, the CNBV (Mexican Banking and Stock Exchange Commission), the INEGI (the national statistic institution) and CEPAL expertises.

AUGUST31TH 2004 – DECEMBER 21TH 2004
United Nations Conference on Trade And Development (UNCTAD) - Division on Globalization and Development Strategies
Internship
Participation in the UNCTAD work, particularly working in the Trade and Development Board, fifty-first session (4–15 October 2004 – Geneva), assisting at the “Hearing with Civil Society”, and the “Interdependence and global economic issues” and in the preparation of seminars of the division. Preparation of my final Master Dissertation “New Institutional Economics in Economic Development” as a preparatory work for the “Trade and Development Report” 2006.

January 2005 – June 2008
Ph.D. Program on Politics and Economics of Developing Countries, University of Florence, Italy
Final Dissertation “A Structuralist Model of the Mexican Financial System: Liberalization and Real-Financial
Interactions with Endogenous Money”
Supervisor: Prof. Marco Missaglia (University of Pavia)

November 2003 - January 2005
International Master Program in Cooperation and Development, University of Pavia -IUSS, Italy
Final Dissertation “New institutional Economics in Economic Development”
Supervisor: Dr. Jörg Mayer (UNCTAD) Discussant: Prof. Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia)

September 1997– February 2003
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Final Dissertation “Market Models and Democracy” (in Italian)
Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Ribba (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia) Discussant: Prof. Andrea Ginzburg (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia)