Daniele Girardi

EducationJune 2016 PhD in Economics, Universities of Tuscany.

University of Siena; University of Pisa; University of Florence2009-2011 Master Degree in Environmental and Development Economics, 110/110 cum

laude, Dissertation title: The financialization of agricultural derivatives markets andits impact on prices, Master Degree class. n.56 - Economics.Università degli Studi di Siena - Department of Economics "Richard M.Goodwin"

2005-2009 Bachelor Degree in Economics of International Cooperation and Develop-ment, Dissertation title: The limits of GDP as a measure of well-being and thesearch for new indicators, Master Degree class. n.35.Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Academic appointmentsSep 2016 -

ongoingAssistant Professor.Economics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA)

Fall 2015 Visiting Scholar.Department of Economics, Columbia University (New York)

Professional experience2015 Research Assistant, for Prof.Mariana Mazzucato (University of Sussex) and

Prof.Michael Jacobs (IDDRI) on the book “Rethinking Capitalism” , 2016, Wiley-Blackwell.University of Sussex (UK)

2010-2014 Research Economist, with a focus on the Italian and international macroeconomicoutlook, construction sector and real estate market.CRESME Ricerche S.p.A., Piazza Mincio 2, 00198 Rome, Italy

Grants, awards and scholarships2017 Co-Principal Investigator, ‘Persistent effects of autonomous demand expansions’,

Institute for New Economic Thinking grant (duration: 1 year; budget: Euro 30,000,PI: Antonella Stirati, Roma Tre University).

2016 Pierangelo Garegnani Prize 2016, organized by the ‘Piero Sraffa’ Research Center,awarded for my PhD Dissertation.

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2013 - 2015 Fully-funded PhD scholarship, awarded by the MIUR (Italian Education Ministry)in order to pursuit my PhD in Economics at the University of Siena (Italy).

2008 "Europe and Youth 2008" student competition, organized by The RegionalInstitute for European Studies of Friuli Venezia Giulia (IRSE), First Prize in theUniversity Section awarded for my essay ‘Non solo di Pil’(‘Beyond Gdp"’) .

Publications in refereed journals{ "Institution shocks and economic outcomes: Allende’s election, Pinochet’s coup and the Santiago

stock market" (with S.Bowles), Journal of Development Economics Vol.134, pp.16-27, 2018,DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.04.005

{ "Financialization of food: modelling the time-varying relation between agricultural prices andstock market dynamics" International Review of Applied Economics, Vol.29, n.4, pp.482-505,2015, DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2015.1016406

{ "Normal utilization as the adjusting variable in Neo-Kaleckian growth models: a critique" (withR. Pariboni), Metroeconomica in press DOI: 10.1111/meca.12236

{ "Long-run effective demand in the US economy: an empirical test of the Sraffian supermultipliermodel" (with R. Pariboni), Review of Political Economy Vol.28, n.4, pp.523-544, 2016, DOI:10.1080/09538259.2016.1209893

{ "Do financial investors affect the price of wheat?", PSL Quarterly Review, Vol. 65 No. 260,pp.79-109, 2012

Chapters in books{ "Effective demand and long-run growth: evidence from five major capitalist economies" (with R.

Pariboni), Imperiled Economies - An URPE Reader, Dollars & Sense (Boston), pp.31-42 , 2018,http://www.dollarsandsense.org/bookstore/infourpe.html

Working Papers{ "Political shocks and financial markets: regression discontinuity evidence from national elections"

UMass Amherst Economics Working Papers, 2018-08, May 2018.URL: https://www.umass.edu/economics/publications/2018-08.pdf

{ "Persistent Effects of Autonomous Demand Expansions" INET Working Papers, No.70, Feb 2018(coauthored with W. Paternesi Meloni and A. Stirati). (submitted to a peer-reviewed journal)URL: https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/WP_70-Stirati-Demand-Expansion.pdf

{ "Autonomous Demand and the Investment Share", UMass Amherst Economics Working Papers,2018-18, Nov 2018 (coauthored with R. Pariboni).URL: https://www.umass.edu/economics/publications/2018-18.pdf

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{ "Old and new formulations of the neoclassical theory of aggregate investment: a critical review"UMass Amherst Economics Working Papers, 2017-03, Feb 2017.URL: http://www.umass.edu/economics/publications/2017-03.pdf

{ "Autonomous demand and economic growth: some empirical evidence" Centro Sraffa WorkingPapers, n.13, Oct 2015 (coauthored with R. Pariboni).URL: http://www.centrosraffa.org/public/4a625260-55f1-4d26-bcfe-1c7f75e36301.pdf

{ "Food prices and Wall Street: Explaining the time-varying relation between agricultural pricesand stock market dynamics" DEPS Working Papers, n.701, 2014.URL: http://www.deps.unisi.it/sites/st02/files/allegatiparagrafo/09-10-2014/701.pdf

{ "Construction and economic development: empirical evidence for the period 2000-2011” DEPSWorking Papers, n.684, Sep 2013 (coauthored with A. Mura)URL: http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/quaderni/684.pdf

{ "Il settore delle costruzioni in Italia tra crisi e trasformazione" ("The construction sector in Italy,crisis and change") MPRA Paper, n.49901, 2012.URL: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49901/

Non-academic publications{ "Domanda autonoma, crescita ed investimenti" ("Autonomous demand, growth and investment")

with Riccardo Pariboni, Economia e Politica, Feb 2016, URL: http://goo.gl/iwsL1h

{ "Il banchiere dei ricchi" ("The banker of the rich") Gli Stati Generali, Jan 2015, URL: http://goo.gl/ahpDn8

{ "Perchè è crollato il prezzo del petrolio?" ("Why did the oil price fall?") Gli Stati Generali, Dec2014, URL: http://goo.gl/z3gdf7

{ "Perchè i Governi sbagliano le previsioni?" ("Why are Governments getting their economic fore-casts so wrong?") Sbilanciamoci, Nov 2014, URL: http://goo.gl/k5wzEj

{ "Usa, nuovo boom (e nuova bolla?)" ("US real estate market: a new boom (and a new bubble?)")Formiche, n.90, anno X, Mar 2014

{ "A new phase of growth in the USA, UK and Germany" TILE International, 1/2014, pp.36-39,Jan 2014. URL: http://issuu.com/tiledizioni/docs/000_112_tile_int_1_2014

{ "Sull’IMU ha vinto il blocco edilizio" ("The ’real estate block’ won IMU’s battle") Sbilanciamocie Eddyburg, Sep 2013, URL: http://goo.gl/BmxLGP

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{ "Barili di carta: le materie prime in balia del casinò" ("Paper barrels: commodities at the mercyof casino finance") Sbilanciamoci, Mar 2013, URL: http://goo.gl/oaA24b

{ "Il secondo boom edilizio italiano" ("The second housing boom in Italy") Edilbox, Jul 2012, URL:http://goo.gl/0q89LU

{ "Le costruzioni in Italia tra crisi e trasformazione" ("The construction sector in Italy, betweencrisis and transformation") Edilbox, Jun 2012, URL: http://goo.gl/pKU17C

{ "Buttando via il Pil. Ma solo in teoria." (Throwing GDP away. But just in theory") Terranauta,Sep 2009, URL: http://goo.gl/P6h4q8

Conference presentationsOct 2018 Presented ‘Political shocks and financial markets: regression-discontinuity evidence

from national elections’ at the 1st UMass System Economics Conference, UMassLowell

Sep 2018 Invited panelist at the roundtable on ‘Sraffian economics as part of the radicalpolitical economy tradition’, URPE 50th Anniversary Conference.

Jul 2018 Presented ‘Political shocks and financial markets: regression-discontinuity evidencefrom national elections’ at the 2018 Silvaplana Political Economy Workshop, spon-sored by the European Journal of Political Economy.

Mar 2018 Presented ‘Reverse Hysteresis? Persistent Effects of Autonomous Demand Ex-pansions’ (coauthored with W. Paternesi Meloni and A. Stirati) at the EconomicTheory Workshop organized by the Department of Economics of the University ofMassachusetts Amherst.

Dec 2017 Invited Panelist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) ConferenceSecular Stagnation: An Event with Larry Summers: Is Slow Growth the “NewNormal”? in New York, US

Nov 2017 Presented ‘Institutional shocks and economic outcomes: Allende’s election,Pinochet’s coup and the Santiago stock market’ (coauthored with S. Bowles)at the Political Economy Workshop organized by the Department of Economics ofthe University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Nov 2017 Presented ‘Persistent Effects of Autonomous Demand Expansions’ (coauthored withW. Paternesi Meloni and A.Stirati) at the 21st Research Network for Macroeconomicsand Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) Annual Conference (The Crisis of Globalization)in Berlin (Germany).

Oct 2017 Grantee and Invited Speaker at the 2017 Institute for New Economic Thinking(INET) Annual Plenary Conference (Reawakening: From the Origins of EconomicIdeas to the Challenges of Our Time) in Edinburgh, Scotland

June 2017 Invited discussant at the 2017 Annual PhD Meeting of the Economics Department,University of Siena (Italy).

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June 2017 Presented ‘Autonomous demand and the investment share’ (coauthored withR.Pariboni) and ‘Old and new formulations of the neoclassical theory of aggre-gate investment’ at the 14th Annual STOREP Conference hosted by UniversitaCattolica del Sacro Cuore (Piacenza, Italy).

May 2017 Presented ‘Autonomous demand and the investment share’ at the 2017 AnalyticalPolitical Economy Workshop hosted by the School of Economics and Finance, QueenMary University of London.

April 2017 Presented ‘Autonomous demand and the investment share’ at the conference ‘Po-litical Economy at Crotty Hall’ hosted by the Economics Department and PERI,UMass Amherst.

April 2017 Invited panelist at ‘The New Intermediate Microeconomics: Roundtable Discus-sion’, hosted by the UMass Amherst Economics Department (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_F5oYMJeVI)

Nov 2016 Participant (with A. Trezzini and P. Skott) to the panel discussion on ‘HarrodianInstability’ hosted by the Economics Department, UMass Amherst.

June 2016 Presented ‘Political shocks, share prices and business investment’ at the 2016 AnnualConference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE) hostedby the University of Milano-Bicocca.

Dec 2015 Presented ‘Political influences on private investment dynamics: evidence fromelections in OECD countries’ at the Political Economy Workshop organized by theDepartment of Economics of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

May 2015 Presented ‘Autonomous demand and economic growth: some empirical evidence’ atthe XIX Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of EconomicThought (ESHET), Roma Tre University, Italy. URL: http://www.eshet.net/conference/paper_view.php?id=1547&p=39

Apr 2015 Presented ‘Autonomous demand and economic growth: some empirical evidence’ atthe the INFER Workshop on Heterodox Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal(17-18/4/2015). URL: http://www4.fe.uc.pt/workshop2015/c_prog.htm

Oct 2014 Invited speaker at the Conference "Lo Scenario Mondiale delle Costruzioni" ("Theglobal construction market outlook"), organized by DiPSE, LEGACOOP, OrdineArchitetti di Roma and CRESME Ricerche at Sede LEGACOOP, Rome (15/10/2014),URL: http://goo.gl/3UMx0g

Oct 2012 Invited speaker at the Conference "Rigenerare gli edifici abitativi obsoleti per crearesviluppo e una qualità dei servizi e delle città sicure e migliori" ("Upgrading oldresidential buildings to create development and better cities"), organized by CNACostruzioni ER at SAIE - Salone Internazionale dell’Industrializzazione Edilizia,Bologna (19/10/2012), SLIDES: http://goo.gl/XKV6LD

Jun 2012 Invited speaker at the Conference “Bext in the city– L’energia che cambia Bologna”organized by CNA, Confartigianato and Confindustria Emilia Romagna at Palazzod’Accursio, Cappella Farnese, Bologna (15/06/2012)

May 2012 Invited speaker at the Workshop “Facility Management and Public-Private Part-nership” at the stand of the Chamber of Commerce of Rome at “Forum PA 2012”(18/05/2012)

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Editorial serviceAssociate editor: Review of Social EconomyAd hoc referee: American Political Science Review ; Journal of Economic Sur-veys; Metroeconomica; International Review of Applied Economics; Feminist Eco-nomics;Review of Social Economy ;Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance;PSL Quarterly Review.

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