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Curriculum Vitae Scientific c.v. of Mauro Baranzini Mauro Baranzini (born in Bellinzona, Switzerland, 31st August, 1944) first studied at the Universities of Fribourg, i. Ue., and Zurich. In Fribourg he obtained a PhD. in economics with a thesis on economic growth under the supervision of Pietro Balestra, a well-known econometrician. Soon after, in 1971, he was awarded a Florey European fellowship of The Queen’s College, Oxford, a grant scheme set up by Lord Howard Florey, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin, to bring promising European scholars to Oxford. He was subsequently awarded a senior research fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation for research to be undertaken, in turn, in Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard. In Oxford he wrote a DPhil thesis under the supervision of David Soskice, John S. Flemming and Sir James A. Mirrlees (Nobel Prize winner in 1996). From 1975 to 1984 he was lecturer and director of economic studies at The Queen’s College, Oxford. After a spell at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Catholic University of Milan, in 1987 he was appointed full professor of macro-economics at the University of Verona. In Switzerland he was for numerous years a member (and then chairman) of Canton Ticino’s Research Commission on behalf of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and a co-founder of the Centre for Banking Studies in Lugano-Vezia. From 1993 to 1997 he was a leading member (and then chairman) of the Steering Committee that laid the foundations and created the State University of Lugano (the only Italian- speaking University outside Italy). There, since 1997, he has been a full professor of economic theory, and chairman of the Faculty of Economics (2005-2009). In 2009 he was awarded the Lincei Prize for economics, jointly with Andreu Mas-Colell. He has contributed widely to the Cambridge theory of income, wealth distribution and accumulation, by incorporating into the post-Keynesian theory the well-known micro-economics life-cycle theory of Franco Modigliani. His papers have come out in: Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Journal, Kyklos, and many other scholarly periodicals. He has published, often jointly with Roberto Scazzieri, volumes with Oxford University Press (A Theory of Wealth Distribution and Accumulation), Cambridge University Press (The Economic Theory of Structure and Change, recently published in paperback), Basil Blackwell, Oxford and New York (Advances in Economic Theory, and Foundations of Economics), Macmillan (together with Geoff Harcourt, Essays in Honour of Luigi L. Pasinetti) as well as with Routledge. In the early 1990s he sparked off a controversy with Paul A. Samuelson and Koiki Miyazaki in the Oxford Economics Papers on the validity of the Keynes-Kaldor-Pasinetti theorem of the Cambridge distribution theory. He spends part of the year in Cambridge (UK), where he is life-member of Darwin College, and in his chalet in the Swiss Alps with his wife Evelina and their four now grown-up children. He has recently published two volumes on his ancestors going back the 14th century in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, where he has reconstructed the demographic strategies and wealth accumulation processes across six centuries and nearly 20 generations. He is a foreign fellow of the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milan, of the National Academy of the Lincei, Rome, as well as life-member of The Queen’s College, Oxford. 1 updated: 25/09/2012 MAURO BARANZINI CURRICULUM VITAE Name : Mauro Leo BARANZINI Born : 31st August 1944, Bellinzona (Ticino) Nationality : Swiss Family status : Married to Evelina née Buzzi. Four children (Moira, 1978; Timothy, 1983; Linda, 1987; Susanna, 1990) Address : Università della Svizzera italiana, Facoltà di Scienze economiche, Via Buffi 13, CH-6900 Lugano (Switzerland). Tel. (0041) 58 666 46 07; fax (0041) 58 666 46 47 Home: Via Dalberti 9, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland Email : [email protected] Languages : Italian (mother tongue), French, English and German (Father’s first language) Degrees : Lic. Rer. Pol., University of Fribourg, Switzerland (1969) Dr. Rer. Pol., University of Fribourg, Switzerland - summa cum laude - (1972) D.Phil. in Economics, University of Oxford (1976) M.A., University of Oxford (1977, by status) Grants : 1969-71 Studentship of Cantone Ticino, for doctoral research, University of Zurich and University of Fribourg (Switzerland). 1971-73 Lord Florey European Studentship of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. 1973 Fellowships for prospective researchers of the Swiss National Science Foundation. 1973-76 Fellowship for advanced researchers of the Swiss National Science Foundation – for researches at Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard. 1987-92 Grant of the Swiss Science Foundation ‘Methodology in economics and the theories of macro- distribution’ (Research fellow: Dr. Marcello Corti) Present appointment : 1997- Full Professor (Chair of political economy), University of to date Lugano, Switzerland. Chairman of the Faculty, October 2005-September 2009. Past appointments : 1987-97 Full Professor, Faculty of Economics, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy (resigned 1.10.2004). On unpaid leave 1998-2003. 1976-84 Lecturer, Tutor and Director of Economic Studies, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford (lectured in the University until 1988) and member of the Faculty of Social Studies. 2 updated: 25/09/2012 1984-89 Professore titolare of Political Economy I, Faculty of Law, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. 1987-98 Founding member and scientific advisor, Centro Studi Bancari, Villa Negroni, Vezia (Switzerland). 1994-97 Member of the scientific committee for the Foundation of the University of Lugano, Faculties of Lugano. Courses taught : 1975-85 The Queen’s College, University of Oxford: Tutorials: ‘Economic Principles’ (first, second and third year), ‘Mathematics for Economists’ and ‘Principles of Econometrics’ University lectures: ‘Mathematics for Economists’, ‘Distribution Theories’ M.Phil. Tutorials 1984-89 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan: Political Economy I 1987–97 Università degli Studi di Verona: Macroeconomics, I year Microeconomics, II year Post-graduate courses 2004-08 University of Lugano: Macroeconomics A, I year Political Economy A and B, II year Political Economy and Institutions, Master in Economics and International Policies Ph.D. courses (political economy) Additional academic : 1976-84 Director of Economic Studies, The Queen’s College, Oxford: responsibilities responsible for the entrance examinations in economics. secretary for 10 Oxford Colleges for the entrance examination in economics. tutor for graduate students in economics. research fellowships examiner. 1987- Member of the Ph.D. Committee, Università del Veneto. 2004 Other appointments : 1980-98 Member, Commissione Culturale Cantonale, appointed by the 1987-90 Consiglio di Stato del Cantone Ticino Chairman, Commissione per la Svizzera Italiana, Swiss National Science Foundation. 1983- Member of same. 2002 1988- Member, Advisory Board, Istituto Cantonale Ricerche 2000 Economiche, Bellinzona (Switzerland) Visiting 1976 University of Cambridge, Visiting scholar (two terms) scholarships, 1976 Harvard University and M.I.T., Visiting Fellow (Summer) fellowships, 1979 University of California at Berkeley, Visiting Professor (Summer) professorships University of Zürich, Visiting Fellow (Summer) 1983 Stanford University, Visiting Professor (Summer) 1992 Visiting research Fellow, University of Cambridge 1995- Ditto, various periods during the year present Conferences and seminars I. As contributor : Since 1975, at least 25 papers and talks (in four languages) in European and 3 updated: 25/09/2012 U.S. universities and University of Brasilia, DF. II. As organizer : 1978-83: ‘Economic Theory and Econometrics Seminar’ of The Queen’s (single or jointly) College, Oxford. 1985: Swiss-Italian Economic Meeting, Bellinzona (Switzerland). 1987-96: Annual meeting of the International Research Network, ‘The Wealth of Nations in Economic Theory’. (Co-organizer, at Brixen, Garda, University of Bologna at Bertinoro, Faculty of Economics, Lugano, April 1996, Fribourg, 1997). 1995 to 2002: Co-organizer of the European Summer School in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Awards : Rotary Prize for best Maturità, Scuola Cantonale Superiore di Commercio, Bellinzona (1965). (as contributor) St. Vincent Prize for best volume in Economics, Aosta, Italy (1988). Gold medal, Schweizerischer Verein Jugend und Wirtschaft, Bern (1992). Since 2005, membro straniero, Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milan Premio internazionale per le scienze economiche ‘L. Tartufari’, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei di Roma, 2009, ex-aequo con Andreu Mas-Colell. Since 2011, Socio straniero, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma Referee for : Cambridge Journal of Economics Structural Change and Economic Dynamics Economic Journal Oxford Economic Papers Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie – Journal of Economics Metroeconomica Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press Basil Blackwell, Oxford Ph.D. external : at various stages, for examiner The London School of Economics University College London University of Oxford University of Cambridge University of Fribourg (doctorat et thèse d’habilitation). Member of : Member of various appointment committees (for full-professorships, associate appointment professorships and research fellowships) in the U.K., Switzerland
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