Teaching Staff
KEY STAFF MEMBERS
The Course consists of 3 modules delivered by 3 professors with expertise covering all the aspects of the course.
Prof. Luca Spataro:
Luca Spataro is Associate Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa. He is an expert on savings and pensions, optimal taxation of capital and labour income, debt management and welfare economics. He Published works on OECD pension funds and currently working on the issue of financial literacy, human capital and saving decisions at the EU level (using SHARE database). Appointed by the Ministry of Welfare and Labor as an independent expert for the inter-governative Peer Review in Warsaw on “Age friendly services and products – an opportunity for social and economic development”, October 2012, Warsaw, Poland. He has been teaching at undergraduate, Master and Ph.D. level.
He is the academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet course and his lectures will cover Public Economics topics (market failures, public goods and welfare theorems) and discuss how they are relevant within the European Union context.He will also focus on specific topics such as optimal taxation, tax competition and fiscal harmonization as well as covering the issue of pension right portability across EU.
Dr. Thomas Renstrom:
Thomas Renstrom is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Durham Business School, Durham University. He is an expert of political equilibria, optimal taxation, economic growth and fertility choices. He has published works on optimal taxation and optimal economic growth under endogenous fertility and axiomatically founded preferences. He is director of the Master in Economics and Finance at Durham University. He has been teaching at undergraduate, Master and Ph.D. level.
He will contribute to the course covering the aspects of preference aggregation, voting system and political equilibria
Dr. Lorenzo Corsini:
He is Assistant Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence. He is an expert in the fields of Labour Economics, Social Welfare and Applied Micro-econometrics, covering these subjects both theoretically and empirically. He has published on international academic journal works on pension, wage distribution and unemployment insurance and unemployment duration, researching these aspects both at the national and European level. He has been recipient of European grants in the form of Marie Curie fellowship at the Institute of Economics in Copenhagen and a Euro grant at the CEPS/INTEAD in Luxembourg. He has been teaching courses at the undergraduate and Ph.D. level.
He will contribute to the course covering the issue of social welfare with particular emphasis to social insurance and unemployment insurance. These aspects will be first analysed from a theoretical point of view and then providing empirical evidence at the European level and developing a comparative analysis across European countries.
