Staff Members
Davide Castellani
He is Associate Professor (habilitated Full Professor since January 2011) at the University of Perugia, host institution of the chair.
His main area of research is international economics in which he provided pioneering contributions in the theory of multinational enterprises. His teaching and research activity has been largely devoted to drivers and effects of MNEs, with applied contributions mainly referred to European countries.
He published more than 40 papers in Journals and books (almost all of them in English), most of them concerning trade flows, FDI, specialisation and productivity patterns in EU countries and regions.
He has participated in various EU funded projects, basically in all waves of EU FP. He is responsible of various Erasmus agreement at the University of Perugia.
email: davide.castellani@unipg.it
See more at: http://www.unipg.it/castellani
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
Song Limeng
Associate Professor at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (China).
His research interests are related to accounting standards and principles convergence at international levels. He recently directed his attention to principles, norms and techniques related to financial statements and accounting issues. He spent a visiting Period at the University of Perugia, in which he was responsible for a joint Perugia-Zhongnan Universities on a international comparative analysis on these topics.
email: songlimeng@gmail.com
See more at: http://kjxy.znufe.edu.cn/szygdw/dsjs/sd/200809/t20080916_18240.htm
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
Marcello Signorelli
Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Perugia. He has served (2010-2012) as President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES).
He is a labour economist concerned with the determinants of labour market qualitative and quantitative performances at regional and country level. Institutional settings related to the labour market but also to product markets and welfare state represent a common area covered in his scientific production. He has published extensively in international journals on this field, with applied contributions covering western and eastern Europe. He recently enlarged his comparative view to China and India.
email: signorel@unipg.it
See more at: http://www.ec.unipg.it/DEFS/signorelli.html?lang=en
