Education: High School: Liceo classico T.Tasso, Rome, examination passed 1969
University: enrolled at the University of Siena, Faculty of Economics
and Banking, 1969
Laurea (B.A.) in Economics, 1973, with honours Dissertation: "Recent Developments in Monetary Theory: Friedman,
Brunner and Meltzer, the St.Louis Approach", discussed with prof. Lucio Izzo Graduate studies: B.Phil Student, Oxford, October 1974-April 1976
Grants: Mediocredito Centrale (1974-5); Fondazione Einaudi (1975-6)
Present Position: Professor of Economics, Faculty of Political Sciences, Un. of Siena, 2012-Previous Academic Positions: Research Officer, Un. of Siena, 1974-9 (on leave 74-76)
Assist. Prof. of Macroeconomics, Un. of Siena, 1979-1985 Associate Professor of Macroeconomics, Un. of Siena, 1985-94 Professor of Economics, faculty of Economics, Un. Of Siena1995-2012
Visiting Positions:
Visiting Scholar, Un. of Bielefeld, November 1982
Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies,Vienna (Lectures on
Cycle Theory), October 1985 Academic Visitor, International Centre for Economics and Related
Disciplines at the London School of Economics, 1986-7 Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, September-October 1989 Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Economics, Columbia University, 1990-91 CNR-Nato Fellow at the Business School, Columbia University, October
1999
CNR-Nato Fellow, Dept. of Economics, Univ.of Southern California, Fall 1995
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Economics, Univ.of Tokyo, February 1997
Visiting Scholar, Univ. of Toronto, Fall 1997
Fellow, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia
University, 1998-9
Research Fellow, Centre for International Research on the Japanese
Economy, University of Tokyo, Jan 2001