Francesco Passarelli

University of Teramo

Francesco Passarelli is associate professor of economics at the University of Teramo and teaches economics at Bocconi University. He is currently visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He holds a Doctoral Degree in economics from Bocconi University and a MA in economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain. He has been visiting professor at the Dartmouth College, the IEES of Macau and the University of Victoria. He does research in political economy, cooperative game theory and European Union economic integration. Recent topics of his studies include the consequences of the Lisbon Treaty on member countries’ power, the political aspects of the choice between regulation and taxation, the behavioral aspects of political choices, the governments’ incentives to strategic defaults.