CURRICULUM VITAE
Biographical information
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FABIO PADOVANO, born in Florence (Italy), September 23, 1966. Italian citizen. Married,
two children. Work address: Dipartimento di Istituzioni Pubbliche, Economia e Società,
Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via G. Chiabrera 199, 00145 Roma Italy. Tel: +390654085320; Fax: +39-0654085280;
e-mail: [email protected]
Home address: Via Dino Campana 23, 00144 Roma Italy. Tel: +39-065010036.
Current Academic Position
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Since 2001: Associate Professor of Public Finance. Teaches courses of: Economics (Bachelor
degree), Local Public Finance and Public Choice (Master degree).
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Since 1997: Assistant Professor of Economics (tenured in 2000), Facoltà di Scienze Politiche,
Università degli Sudi Roma Tre.
Previous Academic Positions
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2006 (spring term): Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Rennes I,
Rennes, France.
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2005 (spring term): Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Rennes I,
Rennes, France.
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2004 (fall term): Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland.
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2002-2004. Adjunct Professor of Public Finance, Faculty of Law, University of Lecce.
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2001 (summer term): Visiting Professor, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason
University.
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1997: Academic Visitor, London School of Economics and Political Science.
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1996: Adjunct Professor of Mathematics for Economics and of Political Economy at the Facoltà
di Scienze Politiche, Università degli Sudi Roma Tre.
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Since 1995: Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of the Facoltà di Scienze
Politiche, Università degli Sudi “La Sapienza”.
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Since 1994 and 1989-1991: research and teaching assistant at the LUISS University of Rome for
the chair of Political Economy and Public Finance.
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1992-1994: Research assistant of Prof. James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate, Center for Study of
Public Choice, George Mason University, (Fairfax, Virginia, USA).
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1991-1995: Graduate Research Assistant at the Center For Study of Public Choice, George
Mason University, (Fairfax, Virginia, USA).
Education
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1995: Ph. D. in Economics, George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, USA). Fields: Public
Finance and Public Choice.
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1995: Ph. D. in "Economic, Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of the Social Phenomena" at
the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma (Italy).
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1993: Master of Arts in Economics, George Mason University.
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1989: Bachelor of Science cum laude in Political Sciences-International Relations, Libera
Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS), Rome, Italy.
Other Academic Activities
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2006. Member of the Board of Directors of The European Public Choice Society.
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2006. Member of the Scientific Board of the Library of Economics, Law and Politics of the
Università Roma Tre.
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2006 . Director of the Liberty Fund Colloquium on “Supranational Constitutions. A Comparison
between the U.S. and Europrean Experience”;
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2005. Organizer (with Roberto Ricciuti) of the Workshop on “Italian Institutional Reforms: An
Economic Approach” financed by the Department of Political Institutions, University Roma Tre.
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2005. Director of the Liberty Fund Small Conference on “Italian Public Finance and the
Fundamentals of Public Choice”;
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Since 2004: Member of the Board of Directors of the SIEP - Italian Society of Public
Economics.
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Since 2004: Member of the Board of Editors of the journal Public Choice;
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2003. Director of the Liberty Fund Colloquium on “Society, Economics and Politics in the
Italian Culture: From Tomasi di Lampedusa to Putnam”;
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2001. Director of the Liberty Fund Colloquium on "Liberalism and Catholicism in the Italian
Culture"
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Since 1997: Recipient of several research grants from the Italian National Science Council, the
Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technological Research and of the University Roma Tre.
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1997. Has co-founded the Center for Economics of Institutions of the Università Roma Tre.
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1992-1994: Research Assistant of Prof. James M. Buchanan (Nobel Laureate), Center for Study
of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA).
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1990 onwards. Has participated and presented papers to many scientific conferences, in Italy and
abroad. Is member of several research teams funded by the National Research Committee (CNR)
of Italy in the field of Public Economics.
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1991 onwards. Has participated to four Liberty Fund Colloquia, and cooperated to the
organization of two of them (on "Liberty and Progress in the XIX century Italian Economic
Thought", chaired by prof. da Empoli and Porta).
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Since 2000: Referee for Cambridge University Press and for European Journal of Political
Economy.
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Since 1997. Referee for Journal of Cultural Economics.
Awards
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Recipient of the 1995 William T. Snavely Award as "Outstanding Graduate Student in
Economics" of the Department of Economics, George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia,
USA).
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Recipient of the 1993 George Mason Graduate School Doctoral Fellowship.
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Recipient of the 1991 fellowship of the Luigi Einaudi Foundation for Studies in Politics and
Economics.
Memberships
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Member of the Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica (since 1996) of the American
Economic Association (since 1994) of the Public Choice Society (since 1993) and of the
European Public Choice Society (since 1991).
Consulting
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2004: Consulting to the Italian Ministry of the Interior on the Census of Italian Local Public
Officials;
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Since 2003: Consulting to the Italian Confederation of Pharmaceutical Industries on fiscal
incentives to R&D expenditures.
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2001: Consulting to the Italian Minister of the Treasury on the analysis of the committee
hearings and reports to the Parliament.
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1995-97: Consulting to the Bank of Italy on the fiscal impact of the budget approbation rules.