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Prof. Maurizio Murgia, Director of the Degree programme council. He is also currently Dean and Professor of Finance at the School of Economics and Management of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen in Italy. He has been President of the School Founding Committee in 2000-2001, and the School first Dean from 2001 to 2005. His main areas of teaching and research are corporate and entrepreneurial finance, financial markets and institutions, market microstructure and international finance. He previously held appointments at the Cass Business School in London, LUISS in Rome, and the University of Pavia. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Stern School of Business of New York University in 2006-2007. Prof. Murgia has published one book and more than twenty papers. His relevant publications have appeared in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services. His paper on Mergers and Shareholder Wealth in European Banking (co-authored with Alberto Cybo-Ottone) received the 2001 Iddo Sarnat Annual Memorial Award of the Journal of Banking and Finance. Dr Murgia served as Director of the European Financial Management Association and is currently a referee of several academic journals. In addition, he has been a frequent speaker at academic and professional meetings held throughout the world. He has an undergraduate degree in economics and business from the University of Cagliari (cum laude), M.B.A. from Bocconi University Business School (SDA), and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Bergamo. He has been a Visiting Ph.D. student in Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. |
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Prof. Stefania Baroncelli, Ph.D.
Stefania Baroncelli graduated from the Law School of the University of Florence, obtaining a LLM from the Law School of New York University, and a PhD from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, specializing in European Union (EU) Law and Constitutional Law. Before joining the Free University of Bolzano she worked as a Research Fellow at the EUI and at the Center for the Study of Central Banks, New York University. Her research interests include the constitutional dimension of the EU, the relationship between the EU and Italy, and the independence of central banks. She has published several books and scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, and conducted research projects financed by the EU (SENT, Jean Monnet) and by Italian and foreign institutions (PRIN, Vigoni). Since 2002 she has been living happily with her husband and two kids in Bolzano. She enjoys the lively and well-organized environment of the place.
Research Interests: Constitutional Law, European Union Law, Law and Economics
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Prof. Dr. Michael Bosnjak
Michael Bosnjak received his doctoral degree and his Habilitation from the University of Mannheim (Germany). Before joining the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in 2008, he held positions as an Assistant Professor of Consumer Psychology and Research Methods at the University of Mannheim, Germany (2003-2008), as a research associate at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim (formerly ZUMA, the Center for Survey Research and Methodology; 1998-2003), and as a graduate research assistant at the University of Heidelberg (1997-1998).His research interests include: Social marketing, consumer behavior with a special emphasis on individual differences and self-concept-related/symbolic consumption, marketing research methods (esp. research synthesis/meta-analysis), and survey methodology (esp. Internet-based and mobile data collection methodology). Besides having published five books and various contributions to edited volumes, his recent peer-reviewed journal articles appeared in: Public Opinion Quarterly, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Market Research, Social Science Computer Review, Social Behavior and Personality, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, and other scholarly journals.
Research interests: Social marketing, consumer behavior, quantitative marketing research methods
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Dr. Ivo De Gennaro
Ivo De Gennaro holds an M.A. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, Milan, and a doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. He taught as an adjunct in Freiburg for two years, then spent several years as a post-doctoral research fellow at Bocconi University, where he regularly returns as a visiting professor of Aesthetics. He joined the faculty in Bolzano, where he had previously held teaching appointments, in 2008, after having spent a year as a Visiting Associate Professor at Seattle University. His work is in the tradition of hermeneutic phenomenology and the thinking of Heidegger. One of his present focuses is the philosophy of Nietzsche and, related to this, the contemporary concept of value and the form of thinking this concept implies.
Research interests: hermeneutic phenomenology, contemporary concept of value Homepage Ivo De Gennaro |
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Professor Dr. Burkhard Heer
Burkhard Heer received his PhD (1996) and Habilitation (2000) at the University of Cologne (supervised by Alfred Maussner and Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, respectively). From 2001-2004, he held a chair in Economic Policy at the University of Bamberg, before he became full professor at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen in 2004. He has spent research stays at Georgetown, UQAM, Pompeu Fabra, and was a Hoover fellow at Stanford University. Burkhard Heer is also a CESifo fellow at Munich. His textbook on ‘Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling‘ (joint with Alfred Maussner) is widely used in top PhD programs. He lives in Bolzano with his wife and two daughters, enjoys listening to the “Toten Hosen”, and thinks that “42” is a pretty cool number.
Research Interest: Dynamic General Equilibrium, Computational Economics, Growth, Business Cycle, Monetary Policy, Distribution Macroeconomics.
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Prof. Dr. Yuriy Kaniovskyi
Yuriy Kaniovskyi studied probability theory and mathematical statistics at the State University in Kiev (Ukraine). Before coming to Bolzano, he had held several research positions at the V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics in Kiev and at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg (Austria). Yuriy Kaniovskyi received a PhD in Operations Research from the V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics. In the same area, a Habilitation was granted by the V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics and by the University of Vienna. The research interests involve Monte Carlo optimization, limit theorems for random processes, mathematical models of diffusion of new technologies, mathematical models of industry evolution, credit risk models. He published a book and more than 60 articles in journals such as Soviet Mathematical Doklady, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Evolutionary Economics and others.
Research interests: stochastic optimization, limit theorems, evolutionary games, diffusion of technologies, industrial evolution, credit risk.
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Professor Patricia Springborg
Patricia Springborg received her first degrees in Political Science from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and her doctorate from Oxford. She has taught political science in New Zealand, and as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley, and held a personal chair in Political Theory in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney before being appointed professor ordinario in the School of Economics of the Free University of Bolzano. Elected to the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences in 1999, she has been a stipendiary fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars in Washington DC, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford, and was the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Award in International Peace and Security, taken up at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. As a political theorist she works across a wide field, from political economy (The Problem of Human Needs, London, 1981); to theory of the state (Royal Persons, London, 1990), Orientalism (Western Republicanism and the Oriental Prince , Cambridge, 1992), and the history of political thought. She is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan (Cambridge, 2007), and coeditor of the first English translation and critical edition of Thomas Hobbes’s long Latin Poem the Historia Eccesiastica (Paris, 2008). She has published articles in journals such as The American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Political Studies, Journal for the History of Political Thought, and the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. In her spare time she sings and plays the piano.
Research interests: Political Theory, History of Political Thought, International Relations.
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Dr. Alex Weissensteiner
Alex Weissensteiner received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in social and economic sciences from Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He commenced with the School of Economics and Management of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen in 2010. He teaches courses in the field of financial markets and financial risk management. His research interests include stochastic (linear) programming, control theory, neural networks, and financial risk management. Dr Weissensteiner has published several articles in leading scientific journals as, e.g., the Journal of Banking and Financial, the Journal of Computational Finance, or Quantitative Finance.
Research interests: stochastic (linear) programming, control theory, neural networks, financial risk management
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