Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Andrea Fracasso is the new Director of the School of International Studies

Appointed by the Academic Senate, his term will start on October 1st for three academic years

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Andrea Fracasso, full professor of Economic Policy at the department of Economics and Management and at the School of International Studies is the new director of the School of International Studies of the University of Trento.

Il professor Andrea Fracasso (foto Roberto Bernardinatti, archivio Università di Trento)His appointment is for three academic years and will start on October 1st. The Academic Senate made the decision this morning. He succeeds to Luisa Antoniolli, who led the School these last years.

Born in 1975, Andrea Fracasso’s research interests lie in international economics, macroeconomics and regional economics. In recent years, his work focused in particular on European integration, global imbalances, structural change in China and productivity spillovers.
His scientific publications include interdisciplinary studies on matters concerning international trade, European integration and virtual water trade.
In 2003, with Charles Wyplosz and Hans Genberg, he wrote a report on the transparency of central banks (“How Do Central Banks Write?”, published by IMCB and CEPR) and, with Ferdinando Targetti, the book “Le sfide della globalizzazione. Storia, politiche e istituzioni” (Brioschi Editore, Milano), which won the Premio Capalbio 2008 in the Economics section.
His articles appeared on many international publications, among which the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Journal of Common Market Studies, and Ecological Economics.
In 2013 he edited the “International Economics” entry for the Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, Oxford University Press (New York).
After graduating in Political Economics at the University of Trento (1998), he earned a Master of Science in Economics at the University of York (2001), a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies in International Economics (2003) and a PhD in International Economics (2007) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
In 2012, he received the Jemolo Fellowship to pursue his research work at the Nuffield College of the University of Oxford and, in 2014, he was visiting research fellow at the Center of Asian and Pacific Studies of the Seikei University in Tokyo.
Prof. Fracasso held different assignments at the University. From 2013 to 2016 he was coordinator of the two-year Master's Degree in European and International Studies (Meis) at the School of International Studies, of which he was delegate for international relations from 2012 to 2014.
He had been deputy director of the School since 2015 and member of the Council of the Department of Economics and Management since 2013; he is also a member of the teaching committee of the University’s Language Centre as delegate for foreign language teaching at the Department.
Since 2014, he has been Associate Editor of Political Economics for the Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, published by Springer – Il Mulino. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Committee for the Development and the Modernization of the Public Sector in the Autonomous Province of Trento.