Francesco Farina

Biography

Francesco Farina is Professor of Economics at Siena University, where he has held a teaching position since 1988-89. His teaching duties are: "International Economic Policy" and "Growth Economics" (Laurea Magistrale). He also teaches the Course of "International Economics" at Luiss G.Carli, Rome (Laurea Magistrale), and the Course of “Fiscal Policy” in the PhD School of Economics of University of Rome-La Sapienza. He got his first University Degree in Political Science "Cum Laude" in 1969 and after a Two-Years Course got a M.Sc. in Economics in 1972 at the University of Naples. He has been doing research work with CNR Scholarships at Fondazione Einaudi (Turin) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1974-77, and has been subsequently teaching in Italy, at University of Perugia and at the University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples and abroad at the Faculty of Economics, Toronto University. He has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Jagellonian University, the School of Economic and Social Studies at University of East Anglia (Norwich), the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge (UK), and the Chaire Hoover d’Ethique Economique et Sociale of the Catholic University of Louvain. He was assigned by the European Commission the Jean Monnet Chair in European Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Siena. He is the Director of the Inter-University Research Center on the Welfare State (Universities of Milan-Bocconi, Rome-La Sapienza, and Siena). He is a member of the Board of the Experimental Economics Laboratory of the University of Siena. He is a referee for European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Fiscal Studies, Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Notes, Recherches Economique de Louvain ,Regional Studies, Metroeconomica, Rivista di Politica Economica.

Research Interest

Economics