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Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Strada Maggiore 45, 40125 Bologna, Italy -

E-mail contact: lucio.picci (the usual symbol) unibo (the usual separator) it

  • Abridged professional info; Curriculum Vitae (PDF File), and a few photos

    A few relevant links: Ci penserò sopra (a blog)

    "La lunga marcia" (2005), La lunghetta marcia (2007), "Bologna-Sevilla" (July 2007, two low-life Kerouak wannabees on a Renault Twingo), La vuelta (the same outfit 2 years later, the long ride back to Italy. June-July 2009).

    • Works in progress, forthcoming, etc.

  • "Reputation-based Governance" (a book). Forthcoming (exepcted: February 2011).
    "I discuss the role and the relevance of reputation in governance, and argue that an intelligent use of widely available Internet technologies would strengthen reputational mechanisms and significantly improve public governance. I will propose a governance model that is "reputation-based" – hence the title of the book." (from the preface)
  • The Internationalization of Inventive Activity: A Gravity Model Using Patent Data. Conditionally accepted, Research Policy
  • "Patent statistics without the home bias: a corrected count of priority filings using Patstat", with G. de Rassenfosse, H. Dernis, D. Guellec e B. van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie. In progress.
  • Incumbency and Reelection in a Multimember Setting: The Postwar Italian Chamber of Deputies. With Miriam Golden, In progress. Presented at: Workshop on Distributive Politics, University of California at San Diego, April 18-29, 2008, at a seminar at University Ca' Foscari of Venice, and at the 2008 APSA meeting in Boston, Aug. 28-31, 2008.

    Works published, one way or another

    See also: papers and data on infrastructure and public works

    2009

  • The 2009 Report on R&D in ICT in the European Union (with Geomina Turlea, Sven Lindmark, Andrea De Panizza, Martin Ulbrich, Paul Desruelle, Marc Bogdanowicz and David Broster). Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Joint Research Centre, European Commission. July 2009.

    2008

  • Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953-1994, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 52, no. 2 (2008). Co-authored with Miriam A. Golden

    2007

  • Reputation-based Governance, First Monday, September 2007
  • The Reputational Budget and its Uses. Mimeo. Presented at the First World Meeting of the Public Choice Society Amsterdam, March 29 - April 1, 2007
  • Reputation-based Governance of Public Works, in G. Piga and Khi V. Thai, Economics of Public Procurement, Palgrave. The same paper appeared in "Rivista di Politica Economica".
  • Rebag-Ware: Reputation-based Governance of Public Works (with Roberto Confalonieri and Cristiano Leoni). Presented at the IST-Africa 2007 Conference & Exhibition, Maputo, Mozambique, 9-11 May 2007. Play with Rebag-Ware 1.0.
  • Dal modello Consip a un sistema di procurement nazionale, in Luigi Fiorentino (a cura di), Lo Stato compratore. L’acquisto di beni e servizi nelle pubbliche amministrazioni, Il Mulino, Bologna.

    2006

  • Reputation-based Governance of Public Works. Rivista di Politica Economica, No I-II, p. 161-184
  • The Quantitative Evaluation of the Economic Impact of E-Government: a Structural Modelling Approach. Information Economics & Policy, 18, pp. 107-123 Read a methodological note linking the paper to the tradition in econometric structural modelling. "Hypermodel": a speech generator (in Italian).
  • Bad design by design: economics meets other types of interactions, in Sebastiano Bagnara and Gillian Crampton Smith (ed.), Theories and Practice in Interaction Design, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New York.
  • Corruption and the Management of Public Works in Italy. With Miriam A. Golden. in: International Handbook of Economic Corruption, ed. Susan Rose-Ackerman (Edward Elgar Publisher).
  • Misurare l'E-Government: il caso Italiano. Rassegna ASTRID, 31 gennaio 2006.

    2005

  • Proposal for a New Measure of Corruption, Illustrated with Italian Data, with Miriam A. Golden. Economics and Politics, Vol. 17, n. 1, pp. 37-75.
    Disclaimer: This is an electronic version of an article published in Economics and Politics: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Economics and Politics, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0954-1985 or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.

  • "Corruption measurement and control. Towards a unified approach". Paper presented at the IV Global Forum on Fighting Corruption, Brasilia, Brasil, 7-10 June 2005.
  • Più pubblico di così... , con Gustavo Piga. Il Foglio, 9 novembre 2005.

    2004

  • Johanna: A Knowledge Centered Infrastructure for Teleorganizations, With Mauro Gaspari, Davide Guidi, and Andrea Petrucci. Proceedings of E-Challenges 2004.
  • Discussione a "Reti-Network", (D'Ignazio - Giovannetti), Rivista di Politica Economica, Marzo-Aprile 2004. La Replica di D'Ignazio e Giovannetti.
  • Seminario sul Software Open Source, CRC Emilia-Romagna - 20 May 2004.

    2003

  • My Scale or Your Meter? Evaluating Methods of Measuring the Internet, with Giampiero Giacomello. Information Economics & Policy, Vol. 15/3, pp. 363-383.
  • Price dynamics in sequential auctions. New evidence using art auction data, with A.E. Scorcu, Empirica, Vol. 30, pp. 163-178.
  • Perchè l'amministrazione pubblica diffida di Apache? , on the choice of Open Source Software by the Italian Public Administration. La Voce, June 2003.
  • OSS in the Italian Public Administration : a quantitative survey (May 2003).

    2002

  • "European monetary integration and integration theory: insights from the Italian case", with Osvaldo Croci, in: Amy Verdun (2002) (ed.), "The Coming of the Euro: European Integration Theory and Economic and Monetary Union", Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Le opere pubbliche dall'Unità d'Italia: l'informazione statistica, in "Rivista di Politica Economica", special issue, May-June 2002. The data.
  • "Le infrastrutture in Italia. Le differenze territoriali e l'efficienza della spesa", in: L'Italia nella competizione globale - Regole per il mercato, a cura di Mario Baldassarri, Giampaolo Galli e Gustavo Piga, Edizioni il Sole 24 Ore, Milano.
  • Johanna: Open Collaborative Technologies for Teleorganizations, Technical Report UBLCS-2002-12, with Mauro Gaspari, Andrea Petrucci and Giovanni Faglioni.
  • Fare le infrastrutture, a contribution to the public debate. La Voce, October 2002.
  • "Le linee guida per l'accessibilità del World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)" (PDF file), in Pierluigi Ridolfi (a cura di), I disabili nella società dell'informazione, Franco Angeli, Milano.
  • "L'adozione delle linee guida del W3C sull'accessibilità in Italia" (PDF file), in Pierluigi Ridolfi (a cura di), I disabili nella società dell'informazione, Franco Angeli, Milano.

    2001

  • "Explaining long- and short-run interactions in time series data", Journal of Business Economics & Statistics, January 2001.
  • "Internet al Governo", with Claudio Caprara (what happens when the prime minister's office digs the Web) . PDF file. In P.Bonora (2001) (ed.) "Comcities. Geografie della comunicazione", Baskerville.
  • "Public capital and economic activity in the provinces of the Emilia-Romagna region (with G. Peroni). Working Paper, Universtiy of Ferrara, January 2001
  • Introduzione alla statistica (with B. Pacini). Clueb, Bologna. Read the index and the preface (in Italian).
  • Esercizi di Statistica. Ambientati in Romagna e altrove. Clueb, Bologna. Read the first pages of the book and a newspaper article to know more (in Italian).

    2000

  • "Saving, Growth and Investment. A Macroeconomic Analysis using a Panel of Countries", with O. Attanansio and A.E. Scorcu, Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2000.
  • "Institution building and economic activity: The case of the Italian regions" (presented at the ASSET 2000 Conference, Lisbon, 3-4 November 2000).
  • "Le verità sfuggenti dell'econometria": what econometrics has to say about empirical research, Keiron, September 2000 (in Italian)
  • "Il capitale nelle regioni italiane", with F. Bonaglia, WP. n. 374, DSE, Università di Bologna (revised and updated from a 1995 version).

    1999

  • "Productivity and infrastructure in the Italian regions" Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, Vol. 58, N. 3-4, pp. 329-353, December 1999.
  • La Sfera Telematica, Baskerville, October 1999. "To be read":here are some generous reviews (in Italian).
  • A letter on the institutional consequences of the "Caso Zamagni", September 1999 (in Italian).
  • A contribution to the infrastructure debate, Affari e Finanza" (La Repubblica), 19 July 1999 (in Italian).

    Oldies Goldies

  • Gradi di separazione, hamburgher e cultura pop (dicembre 2005)

  • La cronaca del Primo Plenum Supremo del Collettivo Immaginario: "Il giorno dello schiaffo", I Miracoli del Lider. Imola, 25 luglio 1993.
  • Italiani di San Diego (Il Manifesto, 9 maggio 1992)
  • A comment on Orwell's 1984 (in Italian)

    Teaching

    Year 2009-10

  • Economia dei media; (University of Bologna in Forlì)

    Year 2006-07

  • Economics of Information; (University of Bologna in Forlì)
  • Statistics
  • Econometrics II (Master in Economics, University of Bologna)
  • Acquisti pubblici, corruzione, reputazione, Università di Roma, Tor Vergata, aprile 2007

    Year 2005-06

  • Economics of Technological Innovation; (University of Bologna in Forlì)
  • Economics of Information; (University of Bologna in Forlì)

    Previous years

  • Statistics; (University of Bologna in Forlì)
  • Econometrics (University of Ferrara)
  • Panel Data Econometrics (at the Master in Apllied Econometrics, University of Pavia)
  • Applied Research Methods (at the SDIC, University of Bologna)


    And now... The Classics ! Biblioteca Augustana