A European Public Investment Outlook
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1 Philipp-Bastian Brutscher is Senior Economist in the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank (EIB) where he is principally responsible for the EIB Investment Survey, a large-scale survey of corporate investment activities. Philipp acts as the focal point for the Department’s analytical work on business and infrastructure investment activities. He holds a Master’s and PhD degree from the University of Cambridge.
2 Rocco Luigi Bubbico is Policy Advisor in the EIB Permanent Representative’s Office in Brussels. His research interests are in public investment, regional and urban development and transition to a zero-carbon economy. Previously he worked in the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and a Master’s degree from the University of Bologna.
3 Mauro Bux (MSc in Economics of Public Policy, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics; PhD in Economics, University of Salento) is a research fellow at the Regione Puglia and teaching assistant in public finance at the Department of Economics of the University of Salento (Italy). His scientific research experience, both theoretical and applied, has so far focused on issues related to the evaluation of public policies, optimal taxation and the impact of EU-funded public investments.
4 Roberto Cardinale is a Visiting Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management where he recently completed his PhD with Professor D’Maris Coffman on the governance of transnational energy infrastructure projects, including the unbundling of transnational supply chains, the partial privatization of state-owned enterprises, energy market de-regulation under the European Union’s competition policy. His research has been published in Energy Policy and Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. During his postgraduate study at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, he visited Sungkyunkwan University (Korea) and Galatasary University (Turkey) to gain an international perspective on state-owned enterprise, which was deepened by a further visit to Renmin University China during his doctoral education.
5 Floriana Cerniglia is Full Professor of Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) and Director of CRANEC (Centro di Ricerche in Analisi economica e sviluppo economico internazionale) She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Economia Politica, Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics. She received her PhD from the University of Warwick (UK) and her research interests are in Public Economics, mainly tax and spending assignment across government levels. She has published in leading international journals and she has coordinated and participated in a number of peer-reviewed research projects.
6 D’Maris Coffman is the Head of Department at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management at University College London (UCL). Her interests span infrastructure, construction, real estate and climate change. She is the Managing Editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and is on the advisory board of Economia Politica. Before joining UCL, she spent six years as a fellow of Newnham College, University of Cambridge, where she variously held a junior research fellowship (Mary Bateson Research Fellowship), a post as a college lecturer and teaching fellow, and a Leverhulme ECF. In July 2009, she started the Centre for Financial History, which she directed through December 2014. She did her undergraduate training at the Wharton School in managerial and financial economics and her PhD in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
7 Paolo Costa is Contract Professor of Transport and Logistic Economics at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is also currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of SPEA Engineering s.p.a., Member of the Supervisory Board of Nice and Cote d’Azur Airport of Nice, Member of the General Council of Fondazione di Venezia, editorialist at Corriere del Veneto and Founding Partner of C+3C Systems & Strategies s.r.l. Between 1980 and 2003 he was Full Professor of Economics, Economic Planning, Transport and Regional Economics, Tourism Economics at the Universities of Venice (IUAV and Ca’ Foscari); he also taught at the Universities of Padua, Reading and at New York University. Rector of the University of Venice Ca’Foscari (1992–1996). In his past career he was Vice President of the University of the United Nations in Tokyo (1995–1999). He served as Italian Minister of Public Works and Urban Areas (1996–1998), Mayor of Venice (2000–2005), Member of the European Parliament (1999–2009) and Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Transport and Tourism (2003–2009). He had been President of the Venice Port Authority (2008–2017). As an International consultant, he served at the OECD, the International Transport Forum at OECD, the European Commission, Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation.
8 Sebastian Dullien is Research Director at the IMK — Macroeconomic Policy Institute and professor for international economics at HTW Berlin — University of Applied Sciences. He has worked extensively on macroeconomic imbalances in the euro area and especially Germany’s contributions to these imbalances. Prior to being appointed at HTW Berlin in 2007, he has worked as an economics editor at the Financial Times Deutschland, the German language edition of the FT.
9 Hercules Haralambides is Professor in Maritime Economics and Logistics since 1992, having taught at eight universities (and in six different countries), the most prominent of which being Erasmus University Rotterdam and the National University of Singapore. Currently he is Distinguished Chair Professor at Dalian Maritime University in China and Adjunct Professor at Texas A & M University. Hercules is the founder of the Erasmus Center for Maritime Economics and Logistics (MEL, www. maritimeeconomics.com) and also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal Maritime Economics & Logistics (MEL), published by Palgrave-Macmillan (www.palgrave.com/41278). He has written and published over 300 scientific papers, books, reports and articles in the wider area of ports, maritime transport and logistics and has consulted governments, international organizations and private companies all over the world including, for a series of years, the European Commission. In the period 2011–2015, he was President of the Italian port of Brindisi and at the end of that period (2015) he established “Haralambides & Associates”: a global maritime think-tank engaged in executive education and strategic policy analysis. In 2008, he was decorated with the Golden Cross of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of the Greek Republic.
10 Anton Hemerijck is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Having trained as an economist and political scientist, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1993. Between 2001 and 2009, he directed the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the principle think tank in the Netherlands, while holding a professorship in Comparative European Social Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before that, he served as a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Over the past two decades he advised the European Commission and several EU Presidencies on European social policy developments. Important book publications include A Dutch Miracle with Jelle Visser (1997) and Why We Need a New Welfare State with Gosta Esping-Andersen, Duncan Gallie and John Myles (2002), and the monograph Changing Welfare States (2013). His most recent book publication is the edited volume The Uses of Social Investment (2017).
11 Ekaterina Jürgens studied International Business at the HTW Berlin and Economics at the University of Cologne, and currently works as a research assistant at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK).
12 Adolfo Maza is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Cantabria. Adolfo received his PhD degree in Economics from the University of Cantabria in 2002. Later on, he completed a postdoctoral stay at the University of Berkeley. His main areas of research include regional economics, economic integration and globalization, labour market, migration and energy economics. He has published more than fifty papers in various international scientific journals included in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) databases. He has also participated in numerous international congresses and meetings, was awarded the “Young Researchers Prize” by the Spanish Regional Science Association. He has also acted as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals, as well as a reviewer for international funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation (USA) and the Austrian Science Fund.
13 Marianna Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). IIPP is dedicated to rethinking the role of public policy in shaping both the rate of economic growth and its direction — and training the next generation of global leaders to build partnerships that can address mission-oriented societal goals. She is winner of the 2014 New Statesman SPERI Prize in Political Economy, the 2015 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis, the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought and the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values. She was named as one of the “3 most important thinkers about innovation” by The New Republic, and is on The Bloomberg 50 list of “Ones to Watch” for 2019. Her highly-acclaimed book The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2013) investigates the role of public organizations in playing the “investor of first resort” role in the history of technological change, and asks fundamental questions about how to share both risks and rewards. Her 2018 book The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018) brings value theory back to the centre of economics in order to reward value creation over value extraction. It was a 2018 Strategy & Business Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize. She advises policy makers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. Her current roles include being a member of the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisors; the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council; the OECD Secretary General’s Advisory Group on a New Growth Narrative; the UN’s Committee for Development Policy (CDP), SITRA’s Advisory Panel in Finland, and Norway’s Research Council. Through her role as Special Advisor for the EC Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, she authored the high impact report on Mission-Oriented Research & Innovation in the European Union, turning “missions” into a crucial new instrument in the European Commission’s innovation programme (Horizon).
14 Jing Meng is a Lecturer in Economics and Finance at Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management at University College London. She works on the nexus of climate change and air pollution policies: environmental economics, energy innovation and sustainable consumption and trade policies. Jing’s recent research focuses on the impact of international trade on the distribution, climate and health impacts of black carbon. Jing received her PhD degree in Environmental Geography from Peking University, and holds a BA degree in Building Environment and Energy Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Jing is a Guest Editor of the Journal of Environmental Management, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Cleaner Production and Global Transitions. She is also a fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance at the University of Cambridge. She has published over sixty papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature Climate Change, Science Advances, Nature Geoscience, Nature Plants, and Nature Communications. She was awarded the “2018 Top 50 Earth and Planetary Sciences Articles” in Nature Communications and “2017 Best Early Career Articles” in Environmental Research Letters.
15 Zhifu Mi is a Lecturer in Economics and Finance at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management at UCL. He has published over fifty papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as Science Advances, Nature Energy, Nature Geoscience, and Nature Communications. He is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production. He currently leads the project on Uncertainty Analysis of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) funded by The Royal Society (IEC\NSFC\181115), and co-leads the Finance & Economics Working Group for “The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change”. He was awarded the 2018 World Sustainability Award for his leading research in the methodological developments and applications of carbon footprint. He was also honoured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe in recognition of his innovative research in the economics of climate change. His research was awarded the “2018 Top 50 Earth and Planetary Sciences Articles” in Nature Communications, “2017 Best Early Career Articles” in Environmental Research Letters, and “2016 Highly Cited Original Papers” in Applied Energy.
16 Daniela Palma is a Senior Researcher at ENEA (the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) in the areas of Economy of Innovation and Sustainable Economic Development, including themes of Regional Analysis. She graduated with honours in Statistics and Economics on issues of International Economics at the Sapienza University of Rome, and holds a PhD in Applied Economic Analysis from the same university. She was Visiting Research Fellow at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis of the United States National Science Foundation at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since 1999 she has been coordinating the activities of the ENEA Observatory on Italy in the International Technological Competition.
17 Mathieu Plane is Deputy Director of Analysis and Forecasting Department at OFCE, the Research Center in Economics of Sciences Po Paris. He is in charge of economic forecasts for the French economy and works on economic policy issues. He has written several articles in scientific journals and has participated in a number of reports for public institutions. He teaches at Sciences Po Paris and at the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne. In 2013–2014 he was economic advisor to the Minister of Economy, Industry and Digital sector. He contributes regularly to media and newspapers. He has recently published, in collaboration with other authors of OFCE, “Budget 2019: Purchasing Power but Deficit”, “Saving (s) Growth. Economic Outlook for the French Economy 2019–2021 “and “French Economy 2020” by Editions La découverte, Reperes collection.
18 Francesco Prota (PhD in Agricultural and Environmental Economics, University of Naples “Parthenope”; MPhil in Environmental and Sustainable Development, University of Glasgow) is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” (Italy). His research interests include regional economics and international economic integration; development economics; public policy evaluation; innovation economics. Francesco is the author of several articles in economics journals, including World Development, Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, Journal of International Development, Development Policy Review, Economics Letters, European Planning Studies and Economia Politica, Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics. Besides serving as referee for international journals, he is Associate Editor for Regional Studies, Regional Science and for L’Industria, Review of Industrial Economics and Policy.
19 Debora Revoltella is Director of the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank since April 2011. The department comprises thirty economists and provides economic analysis and studies to support the bank in defining its policies and strategies. Before joining the EIB, Debora worked for many years on CESEE, first in the research department in COMIT, later as Chief Economist for CESEE in UniCredit. Debora holds a PhD in Economics and worked as adjunct Professor at Bocconi University. She is member of the Steering Committees of the Vienna Initiative and the CompNet, an alternate member of the Board of the Joint Vienna Institute and a member of the Boards of the SUERF and the Euro 50 Group.
20 Edoardo Reviglio is Head of International and European Projects at “Cassa depositi e prestiti” (CDP), Rome. He is Adjunct Professor of Economics at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome and President and faculty member of International University College of Turin. He has been a member of the Council of Economic Advisers of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. He is one of the co-authors and chairman of the Working Group on finance of the Prodi report on investing in social infrastructure. He has a considerable and recognized experience in academic and policy research and has been representing CDP in international institutions (UN, G20, G7, OECD, EU) and worked extensively with them. He is on the Board and Scientific Committee of several think tanks at national and international level. He received his BA, Summa Cum Laude, from Yale College; was Senior Fellow at Department of Mathematics of Yale University; and Research Associate at the Department of Mathematics of Imperial College, University of London. He is the author of many scientific and policy publications. His fields of interest include: public finance, banking and finance, law and economics, and economic history.
21 Roberto Roson is Associated Professor in Economic Policy at Ca’Foscari University Venice, Full Professor at Loyola Andalusia University and GREEN Senior Research Fellow, Bocconi University Milan. He is the author of several articles published in international scientific journals and books. He has coordinated several applied research projects, and acted as consultant for many organizations, such as European Commission (JRC), United Nations and FAO, the World Bank. He is Scientific Director of the “CF Applied Economics” Centre for applied research and analysis. His research interests deal primarily with environmental economics, computational models for simulation of economic policies, and industrial organization in the services.
22 Federica Rossi is currently post-doctoral research fellow in Economics at Politecnico di Milano and she collaborates with Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (Italy). Federica received her PhD in Economics from Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) in 2018. Her research interests include topics in the area of regional economics and public investment.
23 Francesco Saraceno is Deputy Department Director at OFCE, the Research Center in Economics of Sciences Po Paris. He holds PhDs in Economics from Columbia University and the Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on the relationship between inequality and macroeconomic performance and European macroeconomic policies. He has published in several international journals. In 2000–2002 he was member of the Council of Economic Advisors for the Italian Prime Minister’s Office. He teaches international and European macroeconomics at Sciences Po, where he manages the Economics concentration of the Master of European Affairs and in Rome (Luiss). He is Academic Director of the SciencesPo-Northwestern European Affairs Program. He is member of Confindustria`s Scientific Committee, and of the Scientific Board for the LUISS School of European Political Economy. He is active in the institutional dialogue, and in the public debate, on the EU. He advises the International Labour Organization (ILO) on macroeconomic policies for employment.
24 Alberto Silvani is a science policy analyst in the field of innovation, technology transfer, assessment and evaluation. He spent his professional life mainly at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), acting as research director, with both research and management responsibilities. His academic teaching career includes University of Cassino (Management of Innovation) and University of Milan (Technology Transfer and Evaluation). He was national expert at the European Commission in Brussels for four years. He is national delegate in the European Network of Research Evaluation (EvalNet) and a member of the scientific committee of CRANEC at the Catholic University of Milan. He works with the Monitoraggio Economia Territorio (MET), a consulting company providing studies and analyses on industrial policy.
25 Alessandra Maria Stilo has a degree in Business Economics and has worked for the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) since 2007. Her work focuses on research project management, technology transfer, research policies and science policies at the national, European and international levels. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo; for her research project on researcher’s mobility and migration she spent ten months as visiting scientist at the European Commission — Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Seville (Spain).
26 Gianfranco Viesti is Full Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Bari. His main research interests cover local and regional development and policies, industrial and innovation economics and policy, international trade, European economic policies. His latest book is Verso la secessione dei ricchi? Autonomie regionali e unità nazionale (2019).
27 José Villaverde is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Cantabria. He received his PhD degree in Economics from the University of País Vasco. He has been visiting Professor at many universities in Denmark, England, Taiwan, China, United States, Belgium, Chile, Poland, Czech Republic, Ecuador and Argentina. His current research interests revolve around international and regional economics, economic integration and globalization and labour market. He has authored several books and published more than 150 papers in refereed journals. He has also participated in many international congresses and meetings, has acted as a consultant of the World Bank and the European Commission and has served as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals in Economics.
28 Sebastian Watzka heads the unit “European Macroeconomic Developments” of the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK — Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung) in the Hans-Böckler Foundation. He studied economics at the University of Cambridge and received his PhD in economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in 2007. Before joining the IMK he was working as Assistant Professor at the Seminar for Macroeconomics at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich.
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