Francesco (Franco) Spinelli

Professor of Money and Finance
University of Brescia
Department of Economics

Address
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Università degli Studi di Brescia
Via San Faustino 74/b
25122 - Brescia, Italy
Tel. +39 030 2988805
Fax +39 030 2988837

spinelli@eco.unibs.it

KERNELS: macroeconomics and finance blog

CURRICULUM VITAE

(January 2012)

 

Date of birth: August 7, 1949 

Marital status: Married; one daughter 

 

EDUCATION

1963-1968:    Secondary Technical School, Verolanuova (Brescia)

1968-1972:    Catholic University of Milan, Economics

1973-1976:    University of Manchester, England (M.A. Econ., PhD Courses)

 

PRIZES AND AWARDS

1990         Iglesias Prize in Economics for the ‘Background Studies for the Monetary History of Italy’ (Giappichelli, Volume I 1989, Volume II 1990)

1991-92    Scanno and Saint Vincent Prizes in Economics for the ‘Monetary History of Italy’ (Mondadori, 1991, with Michele Fratianni)

2003         Medal of the President of the Italian Republic for scientific achievements

 

EMPLOYMENT 

1972-1973:     Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Catholic University, Milan.

1977-1979:     Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

1979-1980:     Assistant Professor (tenure), Catholic University, Milan.

1980-1982:     Associate Professor, Catholic University. Milan.

                       Economic Advisor to the Minister of the Budget, Rome.

1982-1984:     Economist, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., USA.

1984-1987:     Associate Professor, Catholic University, Milan.

1987-1990:     Full Professor of Economics, University of Trento.

1990-Present:  Full Professor of Money and Finance, University of Brescia.

2002-2008:     President of Bipop-Carire Bank (Capitalia Group-Unicredit Group).

  

OTHER ACTIVITIES 

1981-82:          Member of the Italian Delegation to Working Party One, OECD, Paris.

1990-2002:     Chairman of the Department of Economics, University of Brescia.

1994-Present: Director of Centre of Monetary and Banking Economics, University of Brescia.

2001-2009:     Director of the Master in Money and Finance, University of Brescia.

2004-2006:     Member of the Consultative Panel of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS), London.

2004-Present: Member of the Scientific Committee of Economia Italiana and Review of the Economic Conditioons in Italy.

2010-Present: Co-Editor, Kernels macroeconomics and finance blog.

  

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES 2011-12

 ‘Money and Finance’ (graduate)

‘Financial Crises’ (graduate)

  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

  

PUBLICATIONS 

Books

 Edited Books

 Articles

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Unpublished Papers