Curriculum Vitae. Professor Giuseppe Coco

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1 Curriculum Vitae Professor Giuseppe Coco (Phd. Exeter, MSc. York, BSc. Firenze) Associate Professor in Economics Director of Phd program in Economics University of Bari Member of the Simplification Unit Expert Consultant on Simplification and Regulatory Burdens Prime Minister Office, Italy born 1965 Metz (France), Italian Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Facoltà di Economia, Università di Bari Via Rosalba, BARI tel. (work): (+39) fax: (+39) tel. (mob.) (+39)

2 Summary Giuseppe Coco is currently a Professor in Economics and the Director of the Phd. program in economics at the Department of Economic Science- University of Bari, and Visiting Research Fellow at City University (UK). Previously he has held the positions of member of the Simplification Unit in the Prime Minister Office ( ), Senior Economist in the Prime Minister Office in Italy (99-02), Lecturer in Economics at the University of Exeter, UK (97-99) and has been a consultant also for CIPE, within the Italian Treasury (03-04), the Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione (2002-) and Formez (2001-). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Exeter, a Dottorato di Ricerca in Economia at the University of Napoli and two Masters in Economics (Coripe-University of Torino and University of York, UK). His research work has been also published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Surveys, Research in Economics, Utilities Policy, and, in Italy, in the Rivista di Diritto Finanziario e Scienza delle Finanze and Economia Pubblica. His main expertises are in the areas of regulation, particularly in the field of utilities policies, local public services and regulatory reform, the microeconomics of asymmetric information, in particular with applications to the credit market, taxation, poverty and infrastructure for development in the Mediterranean area. 2

3 Work and Teaching Appointments November 2002 to date Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Bari. He has been the Director of the MPhil. in Economics and Management (2004-5) and is currently Director of the Phd program in Economics (since Nov. 2005) to date Member of the Task Force for Simplification and Regulatory Quality (Unità per la Semplificazione) at the Prime Minister Office, Italy. His duties include in particular the planning of the measurement of administrative burdens through Standard Cost Model, the new RIA model, the evalutation of potential impact of simplification measures and the performance of Italy in comparative indicators of regulatory quality 2005 to date Expert consultant on Administrative burdens measurement for the Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione, Prime Minister Office, Italy Coordinator of Sub task-energy, in the EU funded project AQUIFALC, Italia Albania INTERREG/CARDS Asse IV, Misura 4.3, a joint Italian-albanian research and cooperation project. Dec Dec Member of the Scientific Commitee of the Observatory on Prices and Tariffs (Osservatorio Prezzi) at IPI, Ministry for Economic Development Coordinator of the Bari Unit in a national PRIN project (University Ministry) on Distributive effects of recent regulatory reform in utilities in Italy Member of the Working Group for simplification at Formez, for the Department of Public Administration, and Consultant for Formez on the implementation and effects of the one stop shops and on regulatory quality in the Italian regions Expert Consultant on Public Utilities Tariff Policies at NARS, an Advisory Body to the CIPE, a ministerial committee within the Ministry of Treasury that regulates utilities in sectors under the direct responsibility of the government. These include maritime transport, railways, motoways, water and sewarage, postal services Senior Economist in the Prime Minister Office, Italy. His duties included providing information and analisys for the PM and his economic advisors, the drafting of government documents and the control of the consistency of sectoral policies with the general government economic policy in the area of the market regulation and liberalization. He has been working in particular in the 3

4 areas of energy, transport and pension funds. He has been a member of the NARS-CIPE. He has coordinated the drafting of the Italian Position Paper to EU Council (the Spring Council of Barcellona 2002) and bilateral position paper (e.g. Blair-Berlusconi in 2002). Since 2000 he has acted as coordinator of the regulation group of senior economist. In 2000 and 2001, he has been responsible for several topics in the Regulatory Review of the OECD (Regulatory Reform in Italy). Also he has been responsible for providing information for the revision of the OECD Indicators of product market regulation within the regulatory review process Lecturer in Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Exeter, UK. In this position he has been teaching Mathematical Economics and Microeconomics. to date Research activities: : Researcher in a project for Regione Lazio on poverty and social exclusion; : Resercher in a project for ARTI on the University system in Puglia; : Researcher in several Region Puglia EU-funded POR projects on poverty and social exclusion: - Prima Indagine sulla Povertà ed Esclusione Sociale in Puglia - Povertà e Politiche di Inclusione sociale in provincia di Bari - Lotta alla povertà 2001 to date Special teaching appointments: - Regulatory Reform and Regulatory Impact Assessment in two World Bank training programmes for the Republic of Serbia (March and November 2008); - Various topics in applied regulation and regulation of Rail, Highways and Gas sector in the Master in Utilities Competion and Regulation Policy, CEIS, University of Rome Tor Vergata (2002 to date) and MIBEC Master, University of Bari (2005 to date) - Various topics on monopoly, business regulation and RIA at the Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione, Rome; - Industrial Economics at the University of Tuscia (a.y ) Teaching Assistant at the Department of Economics- University of Exeter Consultant for ENEL on privatization and competition in electricity 1994-Consultant on corporate tax reform for the SOGEI, Ministry of Finance, 4

5 Education 1999 Ph.D. in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Exeter. Supervisor: Prof. David de Meza; External Examiner: Prof. David Webb (London School of Economics). Thesis title: Essays in the theory of the credit market under asymmetric information Dottorato di Ricerca in Economia Politica at the University of Napoli Federico II. Thesis on The role of collateral in credit markets Master of Science in Economics at the University of York (merit). Dissertation on Policy regime changes and shifts in expectations ; Supervisor: Professor Alan Sutherland. June 1994 and June Summer Schools in Advanced Econometrics 1994 and 1995 of CIdE - Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria Master in Economia awarded by Consorzio per la Ricerca Permanente in Economia (Co.Ri.Pe.)- University of Torino Laurea (B.Sc.) in Political Sciences and Economics- First Class (110/110) cum laude, University of Firenze; Dissertation on Capital gains taxation. 5

6 Main Publications (2010) From shareholders to stakeholders finance: a more sustainable lending model (with G. Ferri), International Journal of Sustainable Economy, vol 2, no. 3, pp , Inderscience Publishers (2010) Violation of Equality of Opportunity in the Credit Market (with G. Pignataro) Working Paper SERIES no. 26, presented at RES Conference 2010 "In Defence of Usury Laws". (with David de Meza) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 41, No. 8 (December 2009), pag A previous longer version in London School of Economics- Financial Markets Group Working Papers, n. 369/2001 (2008) Optimal Price-Cap reviews (with C. De Vincenti), Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. XVI, pp (2007) La misurazione degli oneri amministrativi tramite Standard Cost Model Economia Pubblica, vol.1-2 pp Franco Angeli. (2006) Riflessioni per una possibile ristrutturazione della regolazione nel settore autostradale (with Marco Ponti) in Le virtù della concorrenza. Regolazione e mercato nei servizi di pubblica utilità, Claudio De Vincenti e Adriana Vigneri (eds.), Il Mulino, Bologna; (2006) L Analisi di Impatto della Regolazione nell esperienza applicativa in Italia, (with M. Martelli e F. Sarpi) in F. Basilica (ed.) La Qualità della Regolazione: Politiche europee e piano d azione nazionale, Maggioli Editore pp (2006) Using CATPCA to evaluate market regulation in Massimo Russo) in Zani, Cerioli, Riani, Vichi (eds.) Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, Sprinter Series, Springer Verlag. pp (2004) Can Regulation Increase Firm s Efficiency? (with Claudio De Vincenti), Research in Economics, vol 58, pp (2002) La Remunerazione del Capitale Investito nelle Imprese Soggette a Regolazione (with Laura Cavallo), Economia Pubblica, No 4, 2002, (2000) On the use of collateral The Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 14, no. 2, (1999) Collateral, heterogeneity in risk attitude and the credit market equilibrium - European Economic Review (March), vol. 43, no.3,

7 Other Publications 2010 Perverse Cross Subsidization in the Credit Market (con G. Pignataro) mimeo La Dinamica della Povertà in Lazio: Un analisi di budget share (con R. Lagravinese) in Paradiso M., Peragine, V. (a cura di) In Parti Diseguali pp , Carocci, Roma Miopia istituzionale e regole di budget: la spesa in conto capitale del settore pubblico in Italia (con M. Masselli e V. Peragine) in Idee per L italia Barucci, De Vincenti, Grillo (a cura di), Brioschi Editore, pagg Evaluating administrative burdens through SCM: some indications from the Italian experience (con L. Cavallo e M. Martelli), Working Paper SERIES no. 23, pubblicato anche sul sito SCM network europeo: La fabbrica dei cervelli- Istruzione universitaria in Puglia ARTI, (can aa.vv.) Regolamentazione e Crisi, nelmerito.com, agosto 2008, - Una mappa territoriale della povertà basata sulle dichiarazioni dei redditi (con M.Ferranti) - Una valutazione dei trend temporali di povertà tramite budget shares (con AM. Carucci) - Il reddito minimo di inserimento: un esercizio di simulazione (con N. Petragallo) in Chiarello, F. and Peragine V., Primo Rapporto sulla Povertà ed Esclusione Sociale in Puglia, edizionidipagina, maggio 2008 Povertà e disuguaglianza in provincia di Bari: una analisi territoriale delle dichiarazioni fiscali (con Ferranti M e Squeo F.) in Peragine, V. (ed.) Povertà e politiche di inclusione sociale in provincia di Bari edizionidipagina, aprile 2008 pp Il futuro dei Confidi in Puglia (con G. Ferri e A. Forte) in BariEconomica, no. 4/2007 Basilea 2 e i nuovi assetti nel mercato del credito Atti della Conferenza regionale sul credito in Basilicata maggio 2007, Ufficio Osservatorio Economico Regionale Dallo Stato al mercato: un trend o un ciclo? in ItalianiEuropei, no. 2/2007. Ferrovie ancora in ritardo (con A. Boitani) lavoce.info, gennaio 2007, La nazionalità del gaucho autostradale (con Marco Ponti), lavoce.info, Luglio 2006, Autostrade per il benessere degli italiani, lavoce.info, Febbraio 2006, Schede dell Action Plan per la qualità della regolamentazione in ambito nazionale (a cura di Giuseppe Coco e Fiorenza Barazzoni) in F. Basilica (a cura di) La Qualità della Regolazione: Politiche europee e piano d azione nazionale, Maggioli Editore pp Valutazione economico-sociale, giuridica e finanziaria della regolazione nelle regioni italiane in F. Basilica (a cura di) La Qualità della Regolazione: Politiche europee e piano d azione nazionale, Maggioli Editore pp Optimal rate base reviews with price-cap regulation (con Claudio De Vincenti); in Brusio, Muraro (2006) 'Il finanziamento del settore pubblico' Franco Angeli; precedentemente pubblicato come 7

8 Quaderno CEIS, Università di Tor Vergata No. 223, Using CATPCA to evaluate market regulatory quality (con Massimo Russo) in Cladag- Book of short papers, MUP, Parma, Giugno 2005; 2004 Una nuova valutazione comparativa dei sistemi di regolazione tramite l analisi categoriale delle componenti principali: il caso Italia (con Massimo Russo), Quaderni del DSEMS, Università di Foggia, (N. 12/2004) Public Utilities, manoscritto 2003 Can Regulation Increase Firm s Efficiency? (con Claudio De Vincenti), Working Paper del Dipartimento di Economia Pubblica, Università La Sapienza (No. 60); anche pubblicato nel volume Diritti, Regole, Mercato, Società italiana di economia pubblica, Pavia ottobre Sportello Unico, Semplificazione amministrativa e riduzione delle barriere all imprenditorialità (con Ferdinando Ferrara), in FORMEZ Sportello Unico- Gli effetti economici e amministrativi di una innovazione - Materiali La valutazione degli effetti dello Sportello Unico (con Ferdinando Ferrara) in Formez L impatto economico dello Sportello Unico, Azioni di Sistema per la Pubblica Amministrazione n. 2/2002, (successivamente pubblicato sul sito del Ministero della Funzione Pubblica) Risparmiatori (irrazionali) ed incentivi al risparmio previdenziale in Italia (con Massimo Paradiso) in Atti del Convegno: I Centogiorni ed Oltre, a cura di E. Longobardi (supplemento a Il Fisco Maggio 2002), ETI-De Agostini. Liberalizzazione e regolazione dei servizi ferroviari: Commento, Economia Pubblica, No 4, 2002, Miopia individuale e miopia legislativa: la tassazione dei fondi pensione in Italia. (con Massimo Paradiso) Rivista di Diritto Finanziario e Scienza delle Finanze, vol. LXI, no.1, "Credit Rationing and the Welfare Gain from Usury Laws" Discussion Papers in Economics, University of Exeter No. 15/97. "Collateral, Heterogeneity in Risk Aversion and the Credit Market Equilibrium Discussion Papers in Economics, University of Exeter No. 2/ Se il Leviatano sale sul campanile nel volume Federalismo" a cura di Giardina, E., Osculati F. e Rey, M, Franco Angeli, pp

9 Conferences and Seminars Paper: Violation of Equality of Opportunity in the Credit Market, Royal Economic Society, Marzo 2010, University of Surrey Pesentation of the Banca d Italia Research on Local Public Services Giugno 2009, Università di Salerno, Discussant of the Report Paper: Evaluating regulatory quality through SCM (with L. Cavallo and M. Martelli) Oct th Global Conference on Business and Economics, Rome Nov. 2008, IV Annual Conference SIDE-ISLE, Bologna Paper: Moving towards a Low-Carbon Economy in the Adriatic Area Jul University of Tirana (AL), seminar and round table on Moving towards a Low-Carbon Economy in the Adriatic Area Paper: New Tools for Simplification Policies: the SCM (with Mario Martelli) Dec I-Com and SSPA Workshop on La Qualità della regolazione: misurazione, Valutazione ed architettura istituzionale - SSPA, Caserta. Paper: Optimal price cap reviews (with C. De Vincenti) Jul Center for Competition and Regulatory Policy Workshop, University of Birmingham, UK Paper: Optimal rate base reviews with price-cap regulation (with Claudio De Vincenti) Feb Università Cattolica, Milan; Jan Center for Economic Policy, London School of Economics Sept SIEP Annual Meeting, University of Pavia Paper: Strumenti di valutazione della regolamentazione nelle regioni italiane March FORMEZ Napoli, Conference on Gli strumenti di qualità della regolamentazione Paper: Using CATPCA to Evaluate Market Regulatory Quality (with Massimo Russo) June CLADAG International Conference, University of Parma Paper: Le difficoltà della regolazione tariffaria autostradale in Italia November 2004 Conference on Highway Economics, University of Bergamo Paper: Can Regulation increase firm s efficiency? (with Claudio De Vincenti) November 2003, SET International Conference on Organisation Design, Corporate Governance, and Regulation, Milano. October 2003, SIEP Annual Conference, Pavia. June 2003, Conference on The Economic analysis of Law - Università di Roma Tor Vergata March 2003, seminar at the Università di Roma La Sapienza Paper: Risparmiatori irrazionali ed incentivi al risparmio previdenziale in Italia January 2002, Conference I centogiorni ed oltre: verso una rifondazione del rapporto fisco-economia? - Bari. Paper: "In defence of usury laws", Seminar at the Department of Economics, University of Bari Conference of the European Economic Association, Santiago de Compostela Seminar at the Centre for Economic and Financial Research, University of Salerno 9

10 Paper: Credit rationing and the welfare gain from usury laws Royal Economic Society Conference Warwick University, Coventry. Paper: Collateral, heterogeneity in risk aversion and the credit market equilibrium Royal Economic Society Conference Stoke on Trent Seminar at the Department of Economics, University of Exeter. Paper: Policy Regime Changes and Shifts in Expectations- The Case of the EMS Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Team for Economic Theories and Policies (Gruppo di Studio delle Teorie e Politiche Economiche)- Lecce. Paper: Se il Leviatano sale sul campanile Annual Conference of the SIEP- at the University of Pavia Conference on Economic and Social Consequences of the Decentralization Process, University of Bari. 10