MARCELO BIANCONI, PH.D. (Brief Bio)

Marcelo Bianconi was educated at the Colegio Dante Alighieri and the Faculdade de Economia e Administracao of the University of Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1984, he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., to pursue his Ph.D. studies in Economics. During his stay at the University of Illinois, besides receiving a Ph.D. in Economics, he wrote a Master of Arts thesis in Economics, worked as a consultant to the World Bank, and lectured in International Economics. After finishing his Ph.D. dissertation in the field of International Economics and Finance, he joined the Department of Economics at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. as a visiting Assistant Professor and taught for one academic year. Bianconi joined the faculty of Tufts University, in Medford, MA, U.S.A. as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 1989, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Economics in 1995, where he teaches Economics and is a faculty member of the International Relations Program. His main fields of academic research are theoretical and applied economic models with particular attention to domestic and international aspects of macroeconomics, financial economics, monetary and fiscal policies, risk methods in economics and finance, and applied econometrics and time series analysis. His academic work has appeared in several professional journals including European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Review of International Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Canadian Journal of Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, Economics Letters, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Macroeconomic Dynamics among others. He serves in the editorial council of the Review of International Economics since 1997 and is an associate editor of the International Review of Economics and Finance since 2002. His book on uncertainty methods in economics and finance entitled Financial Economics, Risk and Information, has been published in the autumn of 2003 by World Scientific Publishing Co. He has done economics consulting for Andersen Consulting in 1995, and the Massachusetts Fisheries Recovery Commission in 2006. In the years 2000-2003, Prof. Bianconi was elected executive secretary of the International Economics and Finance Society (IEFS) and, among other duties, served as program chair for the IEFS sessions at the American Economic Association annual meetings in New Orleans, Atlanta and Washington DC. Also, he has been a member of the Society for Computational Economics (SCE). Since 2005, he is the director of the Graduate Program in Economics at Tufts University.