Antonio Mele

PhD Candidate in Economics

Curriculum Vitae

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of Birth: March 25th, 1977

Gender: Male

Citizenship: Italian

EDUCATION

	2004-today	PhD in Economics. (Expected Completion: July 2009) Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (Spain) PhD candidate, Advisor: Prof. Albert Marcet

	2004	MSc in Economics. Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (Spain) With honors

	2003	DEA-MSc in Economic Theory and Econometrics. Université des Sciences Sociales (MPSE) Toulouse (France)

	2001	B.A. in Economics. Bocconi University Milan (Italy) . Cum Laude

RESEARCH

JOB MARKET PAPER

Repeated Moral Hazard and Recursive Lagrangeans

November 8th, 2008 (click for pdf version)

Abstract: Dynamic agency models with endogenous state variables or many agents are numerically intractable, or at least very difficult to solve. This problem prevented researchers from analizying an important class of economic problems, e.g. extensions of the basic unemployment insurance framework, models of international risk sharing in production economies with private information, and optimal executive compensation schemes. In this paper, I show how to solve these models, by building a general theoretical framework for the analysis of repeated moral hazard problems. The main contribution is the extension of the recursive Lagrangean techniques à la Marcet and Marimon (2008) to models with repeated moral hazard. My method can easily deal with large state spaces and many agents, allowing the analysis of currently intractable problems.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Dynamic Risk Sharing and Moral Hazard

Risk Sharing, Moral Hazard and Survival

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008

13th Spring Meeting for Young Economists, Lille (France)

Member of the selection committee

2002

Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation, Milan (Italy)

Research Assistant

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

	2008	Best Student Paper Award, Society for Computational Economics

	2004-2008	Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

	2002-2003	Padua University Scholarship for Studies Abroad

	1996-2001	ISU Bocconi Scholarship for undergraduate studies

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

	2008	Midwest Economic Theory Meeting, May 2-4, Urbana-Champaign, US
		14th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, June 26-28, Paris, France
		4th European Workshop on Macroeconomics, June 27-28, Glasgow, UK
		Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting, July 10-12, Cambridge, US
		63rd European Meeting of the Econometric Society, August 27-31, Milan, Italy

	2007	12th Spring Meeting for Young Economists, May 25-27, Hamburg, Germany

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

AS INSTRUCTOR:

2008

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)

Instructor for the undergraduate courses in Economic Theory IV (in English) and Econometrics I (in Spanish)

AS TEACHING ASSISTANT:

SPANISH

2007

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)

Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate courses in Introduction to Economics, Introduction to Economics II and Microeconomics II

2006

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)

Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate courses in Economic Theory II, Public Economics and Public Finance, Technological Change and Innovation

2005

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)

Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate courses in Economic Theory II, Welfare Economics and Income Distribution, Economic Theory I, Institutions of Economics II, Technological Change and Innovation

ENGLISH

2008

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)

Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course in Economic Theory I

ITALIAN

2008

Bocconi University, Milan (Italy)

Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate course in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics

LANGUAGES

Italian (Native), English (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent), French (Good)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Matlab, Stata, Eviews, Scientific Workplace, MS Office

OTHER INFORMATION

	2006-2008	Cofounder and Editor of Epistemes.org, Italian website on economic policy and international relations (until April 2008)
	2004	“The Design and Consequences of Constitutions”, Urrutia Elejalde Foundation Summer School, July 12-14, San Sebastian (Spain)
	2004	Organizer of Macro Discussion Group for PhD students at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)