Alessandra Chirco

Biography

Alessandra Chirco (Bologna, 1957) is MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics and PhD in Political Economy at the University of Bologna.From 1990 to 1998 he was a researcher at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Bologna, from 1998 to 2001 he was Associate Professor of Political Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Lecce (now University of Salento). Since November 2001 he has been an extraordinary professor - and since November 2004, ordinary - of Political Economy at the same Faculty.He was Director of the Department of Economics and Mathematics - Statistics of the University of Salento and Scientific Coordinator of the PhD in Quantitative and Quantitative Methods for Market Analysis. From 2007 to 2012 I have been the proctor of the University of Salento with the delegation to the Reorganization of the University and afterwards to the Evaluation of Research. From 2012 to December 2015 she was Director of the Department of Economics Sciences.In recent years he has held basic and advanced Microeconomics and Macroeconomics (undergraduate and advanced) courses in the three-year and specialist Degree courses at the faculty of Economics.With regard to his research activity, after dealing with the thesis of the doctoral thesis on the problem of the technology of exchange in search models, he concentrated his interests in the field of microfunding of the macroeconomics, theme on which he published - in addition to various essays - The New Keynesian Economics, Blackwell, 1994 (with C.Benassi and C.Colombo). He then dealt with the role of macroeconomic externalities in non-competitive general equilibrium models, certain static and dynamic properties of fix-price models, the demand shock transmission mechanism through mark-ups, the relationship between personal income distribution and optimal business behavior. He has recently focused his research on industrial economics issues, in particular on horizontal and vertical product differentiation, spatial discrimination and incentive schemes for managers. He also published some studies on macroeconomics and economic history. His most recent work has appeared, among other journals, on the Journal of Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Oxford Economic Papers,

Research Interest

Economics