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Dr. Andrea Conte

[Andrea Conte]

Andrea Conte
Senior Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute of Economics,
Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Group
Kahlaische Straße 10
D-07745 Jena
Germany
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Education

2002 - 2007 Phd in Economics (completed on February 15th 2007)
University of Turin
2002 - July 2003 Master in Economics (completed on June 30th 2003)
Consortium for Research and Continuing Education in Economics
1997 - July 2002 Laurea with academic honor in Economics (110/110 cum laude)
Catholic University of Piacenza, Faculty of Economics
2000/2001 Erasmus student
University of Warwick (UK), Department of Economics

Specialization Schools

2007, June 17 - June 23 Summer School on Inequality: Mechanisms, Effects and Policies
EU/INEQ Research Project, Siena, Italy
2006, July 24 - July 28 Summer Institute on Entrepreneurship Research 2006
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany
2006, March 10-11 Spring School on Spatial Econometrics
University of Coimbra, Portugal
2005, June 27 - July 1 Summer Institute on Entrepreneurship Research 2005
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany
2004, September 6-18 XV Summer School of Econometrics
CIDE, Bertinoro, Italy
2004, July 26-30 Summer School of Computational Economics (SEEC)
University of Lecce, Italy

Awards

2002 Phd Scholarship to pursue a three-year doctoral programme and a Masters degree at the Consortium for Research and Continuing Education in Economics
2000 EU Erasmus Scholarship to pursue a full academic year at the University of Warwick
1997 Full Scholarship from University of Piacenza to pursue a degree programme at the same University.

Language Skills

Fluent in English and Italian. Good knowledge of Spanish.

Software Skills

Econometric Softwares: Amos 7.0, EViews 6, LisRel 8.80, MatLab 7.4, PcGive 11.10, SPSS 15, Stata 9.

LaTex Packages: SWP 5.5, WinEdt 5.5.

Research Experience

2005, January - March Visiting Research Fellow
Birkbeck College, London
2003, July - September Junior Research Fellow
International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneve
2002, January - March Research Fellow
ISPRI-CNR (National Bureau of Research) and ISTAT (National Institute of Statistics), Rome

Publications & Papers

2007 Mapping Innovative Activity Using Microdata
Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming.
2007 Globalization and Employment. Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries (with Marco Vivarelli).
Jena Economic Research Paper No. 09/2007 and IZA Discussion Paper No. 2797/2007.
2007 The Evolution of the Literature on Technological Change over time: A Survey.
Max Planck Institute of Economics Discussion Paper No. 01/2007.
2006 One or Many Knowledge Production Function? Mapping Innovative Activity Using Microdata (with Marco Vivarelli).
Max Planck Institute of Economics Discussion Paper No. 03/2006 and IZA Discussion Paper No. 1878 (2005).
2006 Determinants of Innovation in Italian Industry: A Firm-Level Analysis.
Revised and resubmitted.
2005 La relazione tra Input ed Output Innovativi nell’Industria Italiana.
Rivista di Politica Economica, 2005, Vol 7-8, pp. 129-159.
2005 Book Review: Lee E. and Vivarelli M. (2004) (eds.), "Understanding Globalization,employment and poverty reduction".
Economia Politica, 2005, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 497-500.
2004 Book Review: Vivarelli M. and Pianta M. (2000) (eds.). "The Employment Impact of innovation: Evidence and Policy".
Small Business Economics, 2004, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 417-420.
2002 Contribution to the "Report on the Roman Economy" edited by Municipality of Rome, OPER (Permanent Observatory of Roman Economy) and RPR (Resources for Rome) SPA.

Refereeing

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