EconomiX
CNRS & Université Paris Nanterre
200 avenue de la République, 92001 Nanterre Cedex 1
Batiment G, Bureau 313E
0140977788
alessandro.melcarne@parisnanterre.fr
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Maitre de Conférences, EconomiX - CNRS & Université Paris Nanterre (Nanterre, France) 2016-present
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, DiGSPES - University of Piemonte Orientale (Alessandria, Italy) 2015-2016
Research Fellow, “Luigi Einaudi” Center for Research and Documentation (Torino, Italy) 2015-2016
Research Assistant, Waseda University (Japan) 2015
Research Assistant, University of Piemonte Orientale (Alessandria, Italy) 2013
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Torino (Italy) 2015
Dissertation: “Three Essays on the Law and Economics of Judicial Systems” Advisor: Prof. Giovanni Battista Ramello
Visiting Scholar, Cornell University (United States) 2012-2013
Supervisor: Prof. Theodore Eisenberg
Law Degree, University of Padova (Italy) 2011
Summer School in Advanced Econometric Tools for Economic Analysis, University of Napoli ”L’Orientale” (Italy) 2013
Summer School in Law & Economics, University of Hamburg (Germany) 2013
GRANTS & AWARDS
French Ministry of Education, 2019-2022 Excellence Award for Research and Doctoral Supervision (PEDR)
French National Research Agency (ANR), 2017-2020 Young Researcher Grant - Project: LIJ-XXI; “Labor Institutions & the Judiciary in the XXI century” (€70k)
University of Piemonte Orientale & Compagnia di San Paolo, 2015-2017 Post-doctoral Research Fellowship
Einaudi Center for Research and Documentation, 2015 “Alberto Musy” research grant (€11k)
Italian Society of Law and Economics, 2014 “Brenno Galli” Award for the most promising young scholar
Doctoral Meeting of Montpellier, 2014 Shortlisted for best paper award
University of Piemonte Orientale, 2013 “Market of Scholarly Publishing” Research Grant
INPS - Italian National Institute of Social Security, 2012-2014 Doctoral Grant
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University Paris Nanterre (2016-present):
Political Economy (Undergraduate), Economics of Contracts (Graduate), Introduction to Law & Economics (Undergraduate), Economics of Public-Private Partnerships (Graduate)
Univerity of Torino (2015-2016):
Applied Mathematics for Social Sciences (TA Graduate)
University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy) (2015):
Economic Analysis of Medical Liability (Undergraduate)
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
University Paris Nanterre
Students’ International Mobility Coordinator, Co-organizer LIEN (Law, Institutions and Economics in Nanterre) Seminar (2016-present)
Elected member of the CCD-Economie (Comité Consultatif de Discipline, 2017-present)
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
2019
Italian Society of Law & Economics (SIDE), University of Milan (Italy); German Law & Economics Association (GLEA), Hannover University (Germany); Spanish Association of Law & Economics (AEDE), Católica Porto Business School (Portugal), 6th Economic Analysis of Litigation Workshop, University of Granada (Spain)
2018
European Association of Law & Economics Annual Conference (EALE), University of Milan Bicocca (Italy), Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics Annual Conference (SIOE), HEC Montr ́eal (Canada), 5th Economic Analysis of Litigation Workshop, Bucerius Law School (Germany), French Economists Association (AFSE), Paris School of Economics (France).
2017
Conference of the Empirical Legal Studies Society (CELS), Cornell University (USA); European Association of Law & Economics (EALE) Annual Conference, University of Liverpool (UK); German Law & Economics Association (GLEA), Marburg University (Germany); Spanish Association of Law & Economics (AEDE), University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain); 4th Economic Analysis of Litigation Workshop, University of Paris Nanterre (France); Public Choice Society (PCS), New Orleans (USA).
2016
Italian Society of Law & Economics (SIDE), University of Torino (Italy); French Law & Economics Society Conference (AFED), University of Paris II (France); French Economics Society Conference on Public Policy Evaluation (AFSE), French Finance Ministry (France); Italian Economists Society Conference (SIE), Bocconi University (Italy); European Association of Law & Economics (EALE) Annual Conference, University of Bologna (Italy); European Association of Comparative Economics (EACES) Biennial Conference, University of Regensburg (Germany); 3rd Economic Analysis of Litigation Workshop, University of Montpellier (France); Micro-Macro Determinants of Growth in Emerging Economies Conference, University College London (United Kingdom); Italian Society of Industrial Economics (SIEPI), University of Firenze (Italy).
2015
Italian Society of Law & Economics (SIDE), University of Napoli (Italy); Japanese Economic Policy Association (JEPA), Toyo University (Japan); Bankruptcy Institutions, Corporate Insolvency and Entrepreneurship Workshop, University of Torino (Italy); Italian Economists Society Conference (SIE), University of Napoli Parthenope (Italy);Workshop on Political Economy, Silvaplana (Switzerland); Economic Analysis of Litigation Workshop, University of Torino (Italy); World Conference on Compartive Economics (WCCE), University of Roma III (Italy); Spanish Association of Law & Economics (AEDE), University of Santander (Spain); Entrepreneurship and Firm Demography Workshop, Sdertrn University (Sweden); European Public Choice Society (EPCS), University of Groningen (Netherlands); Workshop on Insolvency, University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre La Dfense (France).
2014
Italian Society of Law & Economics (SIDE), University of Roma “La Sapiens” (Italy); ZEW Conference on National Systems of Entrepreneurship; ZEW (Germany); International Doctoral Meeting of Montpellier (DMM) in Economics, Management and Finance, University of Montpellier (France); European Association of Law & Economics (EALE), University of Aix-en-Provence (France); European Association of Comparative Economics (EACES); Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary); Polis Summer Seminar, University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy); Spanish Association of Law & Economics (AEDE), University of Malaga (Spain); Economic Analysis of Litigation Workshop, University of Catania (Italy); European Workshop in Law & Economics, University of Erfurt (Germany); European Public Choice Society (EPCS), University of Cambridge (UK); European Master in Law & Economics (EMLE) Workshop, University of Bologna (Italy); Polis Winter Seminar, University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy).
2013
Italian Society of Law & Economics (SIDE), University of Lugano (Switzerland); Polis Fall Seminar,University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy); Regulations, Entrepreneurship and Firm Dynamics Workshop,Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum (Sweden); European Workshop in Law & Economics, University of Erfurt (Germany).
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Editor
European Journal of Comparative Economics
Referee for Academic journals
Economics Bulletin, European Journal of Comparative Eco- nomics, European Journal of Law & Economics, European Journal of Political Econ- omy, International Journal for Court Administration, Journal of Economics & Manage- ment Strategy, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Institutional Economics, Review of Law & Economics, Small Business Economics, Southern Economic Journal.
Referee for Research Institutions
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
MEMBER
European Society of Law & Economics, European Public Choice Society, European Society of Comparative Economics, Italian Society of Law & Economics, Italian Economists Society, French Society of Law & Economics, Public Choice Society, Society for Empirical Legal Studies, French Economists Society, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics.