Luigi Marattin

Luigi Marattin is currently Assistant Professor at the School of Political Science of the University of Bologna (Italy), where he has been teaching macroeconomics (and working as research fellow) since 2004. He was the first student graduated in Economics of International Institutions at the University of Ferrara in 2001, with a thesis on “The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Market Integration and Policy Integration”. He earned a MSc in Economics at the University of Warwick (UK) in 2002, with a dissertation regarding “An Econometric Analysis of Aggregate Demand in Italy from 1980 to 2000: the Impact of Advertising”. In May 2007 he received a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Siena, with a thesis entitled “Essays on Fiscal Policy”. In 2005 he was Fulbright Junior Visiting Researcher at the Departments of Economics of the New School University, NYU and Columbia University in New York City.  In 2004 he was elected in the City Council of Ferrara, where he has been a member of the Finance Commission and the Commission on Public Services Control. From 2005 to 2007 he was member of the University of Bologna’s research team in the European research project T.E.R.A. (Territorial Aspects of Enterprises Development in Remote Rural Areas) which coordinated six universities across the European Union. His research  is primarily concerned with theoretical and applied macroeconomics. In particular he focuses on fiscal and monetary aspects of the European integration process, the theoretical and empirical analysis of New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models for fiscal policy, economic growth and financial stability. So far he has published several articles on international journals, and a book about European Economic Integration, co-authored with prof. Andrea Mantovani.