Research Team
Valentina Colcelli
Valentina is a lawyer working as a research fellow at the Department of Law of the University of Perugia. She has completed her PhD on "Rights and interests between domestic and EU legal systems". She is Module Leader of J. Monnet European Modules 2013/2016 called “Europeanization Through Private Law Instruments” [EuPLAW]
Her main research interests focus on the interaction of domestic and European law in shaping rights, interest and markets regulation. In this field she recently published in various journals, including international high-ranking ones, such as Energy Policy and the European Review of Private Law. On the topics she cooperates in research project in EU (University of Brighton) and outside EU (Polytechnic of Monterrey, Mexico City; University of San Salvador, El Salvador).
email: valentina.colcelli@progetti.unipg.it
See more at: http://www.valentinacolcelli.it/index.htm
Paola De Salvo
Paola is a sociologist of political processes working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Institutions and Society, University of Perugia.
Her research interests and publication record are strongly focused on the sociological drivers and basis of the design and implementation of development and social protection policies. In particular, she has extensively dealt with the importance of social-class structures and of social ties in shaping political processes. In these fields she has extensively published books and articles also in international journals. Her specific sector of expertise is tourism, but she is recently re-directing towards other areas of social and economic life.
She also carries out intensive policy consultancy activities, supporting regional authorities in the process of implementation of development plans and programming activity.
email: paola.desalvo@unipg.it
See more at: http://www.ec.unipg.it/ez_new/index.php/ita/docenti/de_salvo_paola
Richard Frensch
He is Professor at the University of Regensburg. He is also Head of the Department of Economics of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS).
His areas of research are international trade, growth and convergence, with empirical focus on western and transition European countries.
During his professional career at the Osteuropa-Institut (first in Munich, since 2007 in Regensburg), Richard has on several occasions been seconded to perform advisory functions for the governments of the Czech Republic and Ukraine during their transition process and in view of their integration into the European market . He also worked for the United Nations.
He is the managing editor of Economic Systems, an international journal published by Elsevier for the IOS, in collaboration with the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies.
email: frensch@ios-regensburg.de
See more at: http://www-wiwi.uni-regensburg.de/Personen/Richard-Frensch.html.en
Jens Hölscher
Reader in Economics at the University of Brighton and Head of the Research Group Economic and Social Transition. Previously he taught at the Universities of Berlin, Swansea, Birmingham and Chemnitz.
He held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Halle (Institute of Economic Research IWH), East Europe Institute Regensburg, Bonn (ZEI), Bolzano-Bozen, Frankfurt (Viadrina), New Brunswick in Cairo, Almaty (KIMEP and KBTU) and the Centre of Economic Research at the Deutsche Bundesbank.
He is interested in European monetary and transition economics, both areas in which he published widely.
He is the co-editor of Palgrave's (Macmillan's Global Publishing) book series "Studies in Economic Transition" and was President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies http://www.eaces.org.
His latest third party funded project sponsored by the Open Society Foundation is entitled "Wealth, Poverty and Life Satisfaction in Transition societies".
email: holscher@brighton.ac.uk
See more at: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/bbs/contact/details.php?uid=jh320
Leonid Polishchuk
Leonid Polishchuk is an economist with broad experience in research, policy analysis, technical assistance and teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels. He is Full Professor at the Higher School of Economics, where he is Chair of the Laboratory of Applied Studies of Institutions and Social Capital.
His main areas of professional expertise include institutional reform and development with particular focus on welfare state models, federal-provincial relations, political economy of transition, public sector economics and economics of regulation. In these fields he has authored or co-authored over 40 publications.
Since 1994 Leonid has been conducting policy analysis, research and technical assistance projects on various aspects of economic transition and development, public policy making, legal and regulatory reform. He participated in and/or supervised collaborative studies of policy-relevant issues, such as privatization, fiscal and public sector reform, social programs and poverty reduction, economic regulation, political economy of transition, etc.
email: leonid.polishchuk@gmail.com
See more at: http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/65104
Fabrizio Pompei
Fabrizio is a applied labour economist with broad research and teaching experience in the field of institutional settings, labour market performance, and wage/earnings dynamics. In this field he has published extensively in international high ranking Journals including the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the International Labour Review. He also recently served as Guest Editor of a special issue on this topic in the European Journal of Comparative Economics.
Since 2007-2008 his research interests have been converging on the evolution of labour market regulations with regard to temporary and permanent job positions and their consequences in terms of productivity of workers and remunerations. This field of research has connected him to the study of wage and earnings inequality related to labour market institutional settings.
email: fabrizio.pompei@unipg.it
See more at: http://accounts.unipg.it/~fpompei/index.htm
Ekatarina Selezneva
Ekaterina works as senior researcher at the Institute for East and Southwast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg (Germany). After having attained MSC in Economics at CORIPE Piemonte (Turin, Italy) in 2003 and at European University in St. Petersburg (Russia) in 2005 she worked as a research assistant at the European Training Foundation in Turin (Italy). There, she was particularly involved in a project which addressed the labour market attachment among the different strata of Western Balkans population. In January 2009 Ms Selezneva successfully completed her PhD studies at the University of Turin (Italy).
Ekaterina’s scientific and professional interests include applied research related to labour market and gender economics topics, and in particular, those which involve the usage of subjective measures. In these fields she has completed her Phd Dissertation and has published various articles in WP series and international journals.
email: selezneva@ios-regensburg.de
See more at: http://www.ios-regensburg.de/en/people/staff/ekaterina-selezneva.html
Francesco Venturini
Francesco is a economist specialised in the study of productivity dynamics at macroeconomic levels. In this field he worked intensively in applied research on countries, regions and sectors. He also participated in the construction of one of the most important macroeconomic dataset available (EU KLEMS). A second important field of Francesco’s expertise is the impact of ICT adoption and dissemination on productivity and returns. In both these fields he has published extensively in international journals.
email: francesco.venturini@unipg.it
See more at: http://works.bepress.com/francesco_venturini/
Ira Gang
Ira N. Gang is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, USA. He published papers on development, migration and public policy, public choice, political economy and labor economics in leading economics journals. He was one of the founding editors of the Review of Development Economics, and is an Associate Editor/Editorial Board member of several journals, including the Journal of Population Economics. He is a Research Fellow at IZA and several other academic institutes.
email: gang@economics.rutgers.edu
See more at: http://econweb.rutgers.edu/GANG/Research/index.htm
Stephan Huber
Stephan Huber is a reasearch assistent at the Chair of Economics (Empirical Macroeconomics and Regional Economics). He supervised Quantitative Economics I (Chair Prof. Weber) and Econometrics I (Chair Prof. Tschernig). Actually, he supervises the courses >Regional Economics 1 and 2; Introduction to Stata His main research topics include Trade, unemployment, labor market institutions.
email: Stephan.huber@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de
See more at: http://www-wiwi.uni-regensburg.de/Personen/Stephan-Huber.html.en
Daniel F. Heuermann
Daniel F. Heuermann holds a Post-Doc Position at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Regensburg. Between 2009 and 2012 he has been working in policy consulting in Berlin where he has been involved in the development of spatially confined approaches to active labor market polices including Territorial Employment Pacts (TEP) and Local Employment Initiatives (LEI). Mr Heuermann holds a PhD in Labor Economics from the University of Trier (Germany) and has completed a Master's Degree in Development Economics at the University of Cambridge (UK). He has published on the role of human capital externalities for the occurrence of regional wage disparities and holds a position as associate lecturer at the University of Bayreuth (Germany).
His research topics include Regional Wage- and Employment Dynamics, Human Capital Externalities and Urban Wage Premia, Labor Market Effects of Investment into Physical Infrastructure.
email: daniel.heuermann@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de
See more at: http://www-wiwi.uni-regensburg.de/Personen/Daniel-F.-Heuermann.html.en
