Rainer Andergassen

Current Position Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna in Rimini.

Contact Information

E-mail rainer.andergassen@unibo.it

Address in Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Piazza Scaravilli, 2; 40126 Bologna (Italy)

Phone +39 051 2098666 Fax +39 051 221968

Address in Rimini Faculty of Economics, Via Angherà, 22; 47900 Rimini (Italy)

Phone +39 0541 434254

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Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Siena, 2002.

Master of Science in Economics with distinction, University College London, 2000.

B.A. in Economics, University of Bologna, 1997.

Affiliation

Department of Economics, University of Bologna;

RCEA, Rimini Center for Economic Analysis

CIG, Centro Interdipartimentale Luigi Galvani.

Research interests

Economic growth and technological progress; inequality and social mobility; executive compensation; real options.

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► RESEARCH

■ Articles published or forthcoming in Journals

· Innovation and growth through local and global interaction (with Franco Nardini and Massimo Ricottilli). Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 33, pp. 1779 – 1795, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2009.04.003

· Last resort Gambles, Risky Debt and Liquidation Policy (with Elettra Agliardi). Review of Financial Economics, 18, pp. 142 – 155, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rfe.2009.04.001

· High Powered Incentives and Fraudulent Behavior: Stock based versus Stock Option based Compensation. Economics Letters, 101, pp. 122 – 125, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2008.07.009

· Educational Choice, Endogenous Inequality and Economic Development (with Franco Nardini). Journal of Macroeconomics, 29, pp. 940 – 958, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2006.05.003

· Innovation Waves, Self-organised Criticality and Technological Convergence (with Franco Nardini and Massimo Ricottilli). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 61, pp. 710 – 728, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2004.07.009

· Collateral Constraints, Debt Management and Investment Incentives with a Low Default Probability (with Elettra Agliardi). Journal of Restructuring Finance, 2, pp. 173 – 181, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219869X05000464

· Endogenous Innovation Waves and Economic Growth (with Franco Nardini). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 16, pp. 522 – 539, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2004.08.003

· Incentives of Stock option based compensation (with Elettra Agliardi). Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 25, pp. 21-32, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11156-005-3177-8

· Rational destabilizing speculation and the riding of bubbles, ICFAI Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2, 69 – 83, 2005

· Analysis of regional labour market dynamics: in search of indications for self-organised criticality (with Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp). Journal of Geographical Systems, 5, pp. 275 – 290, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10109-003-0112-1

· Economic wealth and well-being. International Review of Economics and Business (RISEC), 49, pp. 145 – 163, 2002.

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■ Papers in Collective Volumes

· Collateral Constraints, Debt Management and Investment Incentives (with Elettra Agliardi). In Cheng-Few Lee (Ed). Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting Vol. 6., pp. 1 – 13 World Scientific 2008. http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/etextbook/6741/6741_chap01.pdf

· The emergence of paradigm setters through firms’ interaction and network formation (with Franco Nardini and Massimo Ricottilli). In A. Namatame, T. Kaizouji, Y. Aruka (Eds.). The Complex Networks of Economic Interactions, pp. 93 – 106. Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28727-2_6

· Firms’ Interaction and Technological Paradigms (with Franco Nardini and Massimo Ricottilli). In J. Leskow, M. Puchet and L. F. Punzo (Eds.). New Tools of Economic Dynamics, pp. 79 – 93. Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28444-3_5

· Firms Dynamics and Self-organised criticality (with Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp). In H.L.F. de Groot, P. Nijkamp and R.R. Stough (Eds.). Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development, pp. 292 – 314. Edward Elgar Publisher 2004.

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■ Articles in Italian

· Val Pusteria. Una destinazione con regimi turistici coesistenti (with Laura Vici). Economia dei Servizi, 2, pp. 97 – 122, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2382/23747

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■ Working Paper and Unpublished Material

· Less Developed Countries, Tourism Investments and Local Economic Development (with Guido Candela). WP n 676, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, 2009, http://www2.dse.unibo.it/wp/676.pdf

· The valuation of N-phased investment projects under jump-diffusion processes (with Luigi Sereno). April 2009, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1162153

· Product Market Competition, Incentives and Fraudulent Behavior, WP n. 638, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, 2008. http://www2.dse.unibo.it/wp/638.pdf

· A Note on the Riding of Bubbles, mimeo 2008.

· (S,s) Adjustment Strategies and dynamic hedging (with Elettra Agliardi), RCEA working paper 9 – 2007. http://www.rcfea.org/wp/wp09_07.pdf.

· Firms’ Network Formation through the Transmission of Heterogeneous Knowledge (with Franco Nardini and Massimo Ricottilli), WP n. 543, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, 2005. www.dse.unibo.it/wp/543.pdf.

· Investment, Growth and Economic Fluctuations, WP n. 318, Department of Economics, University of Siena, April 2001. http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/ab_quaderni/ab318.html

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