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Current positions:- Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence - Italy (from 2024).- Research fellow at the Center for Computational Social Science (CCSS), Kobe University - Japan (from 2019).- Adjunct Associate Professor at the Economics Discipline Group - Business School, University of Technology Sydney - Australia (from 2026).
Other affiliations and positions:- Co-director of the program in Behavioural Macroeconomics at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University (from 2015);- Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Social Science (from 2019).
Professional experience:- Associate Professor at the Economics Discipline Group - Business School, University of Technology Sydney - Australia (2024-2026)- Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Fellow at Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University (June 2022 - January 2023).- Associate Editor of the Review of Keynesian Economics (2012-2020).- Visiting Fellow at Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo (November-December 2017, January and December 2019).- Visiting Fellow at Department of International Business and Economics, University of Greenwich (October 2017).- Visiting Fellow at Department of Economics, University of Bamberg (September 2017).- Senior Lecturer at the Economics Discipline Group - Business School, University of Technology Sydney (2015-2024).- Visiting Fellow at S~{a}o Paulo Business School - Fondac{c}ao Getulio Vargas (November-December 2013).- Visiting Fellow at New School for Social Research, New York (September 2013).- Lecturer at the Economics Discipline Group - Business School, University of Technology Sydney (2012-2015).- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Finance and Economics - Business School, University of Technology Sydney (2008-2012).
WORKING PAPERS, PROJECTS, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Eluding the predators: the Goodwin cycle with workforce precarization in Japan, with E. Caricchio. Individualism and Collectivism as predictors of compliance with COVID-19 public health safety expectations, with C. Castle and O. Stavrunova. Working paper 03/2021 Department of Economics Working Paper Series, University of Technology Sydney.
Social distancing and contagion in a discrete choice model of COVID-19, with G. Baskozos and G. Galanis. Working paper 35/2020. Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University.
Credit Bubble, ``Monetary Famine'', and Stock Market Crashes - A Disequilibrium Dynamical Model of Interbank Market, with C. Chiarella and T. Zhi.
A Boom-Bust Business Cycle Model with Heterogeneous Expectations in the Credit Market, with C. Chiarella and T. Henckel. Available at https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/635882/81e5b7e6530a4a484612427a96201100/mL/2013-10-21-ffm-mo-session-2a-paper-data.pdf
MEDIA COVERAGE
How supply networks shape the firm size distribution: The Japanese case: VoxEu column, November 2022.https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-supply-networks-shape-firm-size-distribution-japanese-case
Far out: Why political parties go to extremes, Phys.org, August 2021, https://phys.org/news/2021-08-political-parties-extremes.html
PhD THESES SUPERVISESJuan Zurita: Credit Markets and the Macroeconomy - University of Technology Sydney (completion 2023).Tianhao Zhi: A New Paradigm for Managing Financial Risk - University of Technology Sydney (completion 2016);Qi Nan Zhai: Market impact of Heterogeneity and Ambiguity - University of Technology Sydney (completion 2014).
OTHER STUDENT SUPERVISIONS
Enrico Caricchio, Master in Economics and Development, University of Florence, 2024-2025.Georgia Kate Rylah, Honours program in Economics, UTS, 2023.Jameson Coombs, Honours program in Economics, UTS, 2020.Cristopher Carter, Honours program in Economics, UTS, 2020.Cassandra Castle, Honours program in Economics, UTS, 2020.
Invited mentor at the Young Scholar Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Hanoi (Vietnam), August 2019.
Angsana Horpitakwong, Honours program in Economics, UTS, 2018.Isabella Buchert-Palmisano, Honours program in Economics, UTS, 2016.Thomas Heagney, Honours program in Economics, UTS, 2016.Nicholas Prineas, Honours program in Economics, UTS, 2015.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
``Environmental Challenges and Societal Well-Being'', bachelor in Sustainable Business, University of Florence, 2026.``Advanced Macroeconomics'', Master in Economics and Development, University of Florence, 2024-2026. ``Macroeconomics II'', PhD program in Economics, and ``Advanced Macroeconomics'', Honours program in Economics, University of Technology Sydney, 2015-2023 (coordination).``Intermediate Macroeconomics'', Bachelor of Business, University of Technology Sydney, 2015-2023 (coordination).``Economics Policy Seminar'', Bachelor of Business, University of Technology Sydney, 2018-2023 (coordination).``Economics for Management'', MBA program, Graduate School of Business, University of Technology Sydney, 2013-2014 (coordination).``Economics for Business'', Bachelor of Business, University of Technology Sydney, 2012 (coordination).
OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Invited lecturer at the School on Computational Social Science: Agent-Based Models (ABM) in Economics - Center for Computational Social Science, Kobe University, December 27, 2022.
Invited lecturer at the School on Computational Social Science - Center for Computational Social Science, Kobe University, February 28 - March 1, 2020.Public lecture on ``Inequality and complexity'', United International College, Zhuhai, 13/11/2019.Public lecture on ``Agent-based modelling in macroeconomics'', United International College, Zhuhai, 21/11/2018.Research Workshop "Agent Based Modelling: Numerical Solution and Stochastic Aggregate Dynamics". Bamberg Doctoral Research Group on Behavioral Macroeconomics, September 25-26, 2017. Guest lecturer at ``Applied Macro-Modelling: Fully Scalable Models'' winter school, University of Limerick, January 2015.Guest lecturer at ``Mathematics of Multilevel Anticipatory Complex System'' summer school, Universit`{a} Politecnica delle Marche, September 2014.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Contingent rationality: a new behavioral foundations for macroeconomic models, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2026-2028.Macro-Economy under COVID-19 influence: Data-intensive analysis and the road to recovery, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), 2020 - 2022.Income inequality and household debt: a stock-flow consistent approach with heterogeneous agents, University of Technology Sydney - Business School Research Grant 2016.Macroeconomic Instability and Microeconomic Financial Fragility: A Stock-Flow Consistent Approach with Heterogeneous Agents, Institute for New Economic Thinking research grant, 2013.
Macroeconomics, behavioral macroeconomics, networks, and computational economics.
Legenda
Eluding the predators: the Goodwin cycle with workforce precarization in Japan, with E. Caricchio.Individualism and Collectivism as predictors of compliance with COVID-19 public health safety expectations, with C. Castle and O. Stavrunova. Working paper 03/2021 Department of Economics Working Paper Series, University of Technology Sydney.
``Environmental Challenges and Societal Well-Being'', bachelor in Sustainable Business, University of Florence, 2026.``Advanced Macroeconomics'', Master in Economics and Development, University of Florence, 2024-2026.``Macroeconomics II'', PhD program in Economics, and ``Advanced Macroeconomics'', Honours program in Economics, University of Technology Sydney, 2015-2023 (coordination).``Intermediate Macroeconomics'', Bachelor of Business, University of Technology Sydney, 2015-2023 (coordination).``Economics Policy Seminar'', Bachelor of Business, University of Technology Sydney, 2018-2023 (coordination).``Economics for Management'', MBA program, Graduate School of Business, University of Technology Sydney, 2013-2014 (coordination).``Economics for Business'', Bachelor of Business, University of Technology Sydney, 2012 (coordination).
Invited lecturer at the School on Computational Social Science - Center for Computational Social Science, Kobe University, February 28 - March 1, 2020.Public lecture on ``Inequality and complexity'', United International College, Zhuhai, 13/11/2019.Public lecture on ``Agent-based modelling in macroeconomics'', United International College, Zhuhai, 21/11/2018.Research Workshop "Agent Based Modelling: Numerical Solution and Stochastic Aggregate Dynamics". Bamberg Doctoral Research Group on Behavioral Macroeconomics, September 25-26, 2017.Guest lecturer at ``Applied Macro-Modelling: Fully Scalable Models'' winter school, University of Limerick, January 2015.Guest lecturer at ``Mathematics of Multilevel Anticipatory Complex System'' summer school, Universit`{a} Politecnica delle Marche, September 2014.
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