Francesco VONA

CURRICULUM VITAE of FRANCESCO VONA

December 2018

.  GENERAL INFORMATION

Personal

Date of birth: 18-06-1977, Rome (Italy)                                 

Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English and French     

Married, two daughters    

Contacts

Email: francesco.vona@sciencespo.fr

Phone number: +330489737105

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/francescovona/home 

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KzvmAAIAAAAJ&hl=en   

 

Current Positions, Qualifications and Main Activities

-          Senior Economist, OFCE Sciences-Po (French Economic Observatory of Sciences-Po), from October 2010 (Senior from June 2013)

-          Adjunct Visiting Professor, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice (2017-currently) and short-term Visiting Professor London School of Economics, Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (planned November-December, 2018)

-          Coordinator Sciences-Po Team, INNOPATHS (EU project, 2017-2020)

-          Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), Université Nice Cote d’Azur

-          Italian Qualification as Full Professor: Economics S-P/01, Economic Policy S-P/02, Applied Economics S-P/04 (2018)

 

Previous Positions and Qualifications

-          Post-Doc Research Fellow, Department of Public Economics University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ 2009-2010

-          Research Associate: RASTANEWS (EU Project 2013-15), POLHIA (EU Project 2009-2011); INEQ (EU Project, 2009); Isigrowth (EU project, 2015-2018)

-          Visiting Researcher: CMCC, Venice (2017-2018); FEEM, Venice (2017 and 2012); Maxwell School of Public Affair, Syracuse (2014); IEB, Barcelona (2014); Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (2007-2009)

-          Italian Qualification as Associate Professor: Economics S-P/01, Economic Policy S-P/02

 

Academic Education

-          PhD in Economics, University ‘La Sapienza’, 2008

-          Degree with honors in Statistics, University ‘La Sapienza’, 2004

 
 

B.  RESEARCH

Publications

Vona, F., Marin, G., Consoli, D., 2018. ‘Measures, Drivers and Effects of Green Employment: evidence from US metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, 2006-2014,’ Journal of Economic Geography forthcoming doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lby038 (featured in LSE Business Review).

Vona, F., ‘Job Losses and the Political Acceptability of Climate Policies: why the “job-killing” argument is so persistent and how to overturn it,’ Climate Policy forthcoming doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1532871.

Nicolli, F., Vona, F., ‘Energy Market Liberalization and Renewable Energy Policies in OECD Countries,’ Energy Policy forthcoming.

Vona, F., Marin, G., Consoli, D., Popp, D., 2018. ‘Green Skills,’ NBER working paper 21116. New version: ‘Environmental Regulation and Green Skills: an empirical exploration,’ Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists vol. 5(4): 713–753 (featured in voxeu.org).

 Raitano, M., Vona, F., 2018 ‘From the Cradle to the Grave: the impact of family background on carrier path of Italian males,’ Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 80(6), 1062-1088. 

Verdolini, E., Vona, F., Popp, D., 2018. ‘Bridging the gap: fast-reacting fossil technologies facilitate renewable energy diffusion,’ Energy Policy vol. 116(C), 242-256 (featured in the Washington Post, Huston Chronicle and NBER digest).

Raitano, M., Vona, F., 2017. ‘Competition, Firm Size and Returns to Skills: evidence from currency shocks and market liberalizations,’ The World Economy vol. 40(12), 2676-2703.

Consoli, D., Marin, G., Marzucchi, A., Vona, F., 2016. ‘Do green jobs differ from non-green jobs in terms of skills and human capital?,’ Research Policy vol. 45(5), 1046–1060.

Nicolli, F., Vona, F., 2016. ‘Heterogeneous Policies, Heterogeneous Technologies: the case of Renewable Energy,’ Energy Economics vol. 56(C), 190-204 (featured in Science for Environmental Policies, Issue 483).

Raitano, M., Vittori, C., Vona, F., 2016. ‘The effect of parental background along the sons' earnings distribution: does one model fit for all?,’ Applied Economic Letters 23(15), 1073-1078.

Consoli, D., Vona, F., Rentocchini, F., 2016. That was then, this is now: skill and routinization in the 2000s, Industrial and Corporate Change 25(5), 847-866.

Raitano, M., Vona, F., 2016. ‘Assessing students’ equality of opportunity in OECD countries: the role of national and school-level policies,’ Applied Economics vol. 48(33), 3148-3163.

Vona, F., Consoli, D., 2015. ‘Innovation and Skill Dynamics: A Life-cycle Approach,’ Industrial and Corporate Change vol. 24(6), 1393-1415.

Raitano, M., Vona, F., 2015. ‘Measuring the link between intergenerational occupational mobility and earnings: evidence from eight European countries,’ Journal of Economic Inequality vol. 13(1), 83-102.

Raitano, M., Vona, F., 2015. ‘Direct and indirect influences of parental background on offspring earnings: a comparison across-countries and genders,’ Manchester School vol. 83(4), 423-450.

Nicolli, F., Vona, F., 2015. ‘The Evolution of Renewable Energy Policy in OECD Countries: aggregate indicators and determinants,’ in: Political Economy and Instruments of Environmental Politics, CESIFO seminar series, MIT Press.

Nesta, L., Vona, F., Nicolli, F., 2014. ‘Environmental Policies, Competition and Innovation in Renewable Energy,’ Journal of Environmental Economics and Management vol. 67(3), 396-411.

Vona, F., Zamparelli, L., 2014. ‘Centralized Wage Setting and Active Labor Market Policies in Frictional Labor Markets: the Nordic Case,’ Eastern Economic Journal vol. 40(3), 349-364.

Patriarca, F., Vona, F., 2013. ‘Structural Change and the Income Distribution: an inverted-U relationship,’ Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control vol. 37(8), 1641-1658.

Consoli, D., Vona, F., and Saarivirta, T., 2013. ‘An analysis of the Graduate Labour Market in Finland: the impact of Spatial Agglomeration and Skill-Job Mismatches,’ Regional Studies vol. 47(10), 1634-1652.

Raitano, M., Vona, F., 2013. ‘Peer Heterogeneity, School Tracking and Students’ Performances: Evidence from PISA 2006,’ Applied Economics vol. 45(32), 4516-4532.

Franzini, M., Raitano, M., and Vona, F., 2013. ‘The Channels of Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality: a cross-country comparison,’ Rivista Italiana degli Economisti vol.2, 201-26.

Amendola, M., Vona, F., 2012. ‘Coordinating the Accumulation of Physical and Human Capital in different Institutional Settings,’ Economic of Innovation and New Technology vol. 21(7), 631-653.

Patriarca, F., Vona, F., 2012. ‘Environmental Policies, Inequality and Technical Change: a simulation model,’ Revue de l’OFCE vol.124, 389-413.

Vona, F., Patriarca, F., 2011. ‘Income Inequality and the Development of Environmental Technologies,’ Ecological Economics vol.70(11), 2201-13.

 

Completed papers and advanced projects

1.    Marin, G. and Vona, F., ‘Climate Policies and Skill-Biased Employment Dynamics: evidence from EU countries’, OFCE wp, under review Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

2.    Raitano, M., Vona, F., ‘Nepotism vs. Specific Skills: the effect of liberalizations on returns to parental background of Italian lawyers,’ under review Journal of Labor Economics (featured in LSE Business Review).

3.    Marin, G., Vona, F., ‘Finance and the Reallocation of Scientific, Technical and Engineering Talents,’ OFCE wp, under review Oxford Economic Papers.

4.    Marin, G., Vona, F., ‘The Impact of Energy Prices on Employment and Environmental Performance: Evidence from French Manufacturing Establishments,’ OFCE wp, submitted.

5.    Nesta, L., Verdolini, E., Vona, F., ‘Threshold Policy Effects and the Direction of Technical Change: Evidence from Energy Technologies,’ GREDEG wp, close to submission.

 

On-going projects

1.    Consoli, D., Marin, G., Rentocchini, F., Vona, F., ‘Routinization and Long-term Employment Dynamics in the US: the Role of Within-Occupation Task Changes.’, first draft soon.

2.    Matano, A., Naticchini, P., Vona, F., ‘The Institutional Margin of Adjustment to Import Competition: Evidence from Italian Bargained Minimum Wages.’, first draft soon.

3.    Gilli, M., Nicolli, F., Vona, F., ‘Inequality, Growth and the Environment: A Reappraisal.’ first draft soon.

4.    Chen, Z., Marin, G., Popp, D., Vona, F., ‘Green Fiscal Multiplier: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.’

5.    Dussaux, D., Vona, F., ‘Carbon Leakage: Firm-Level Evidence.’

6.    Guillou, S., Laffineur, C., Vona, F. ‘Outsourcing and Reallocation of IT Talents: implications for wages and productivity.’

7.    Bonaccorsi, L., Marin, G., Verdolini, E., Vona, F., ‘The Dark and the Green Side of International Trade and Industrial Production.’

8.    Marin, G., Vona, F., ‘Green Investments and Workforce Skills in French Companies.’

 

Policy Reports

1.    Nesta, L., Dibiaggio, L., Gaffard, J.-L., Guillou, S., Napoletano, M., Salies, E., Vona, F., 2016. ‘Le développement du parc de Sophia Antipolis depuis 1997,’ report for the Communauté d’Agglomération Sophia Antipolis.

2.    Vona, F., 2014. ‘Determinants of Renewable Energy Innovation: a critical survey,’ policy paper for the EU project RAstaNEWS.

3.    Vona, F., Galeotti, M. , 2014. ‘The Sustainable Management of Energy and Natural Resources and the Geography of Economic Activities and of Population Movements: An Overview,’ background paper for the Project ‘Value Added in Motion,’ ENEL foundation.

4.    Naticchioni, P., Ricci, A., Vona, F., 2010. ‘Technological Change, Human Resources and Inequality: a Review,’ EU project POLHIA.

5.    Amendola, M., Di Iasio, G., Naticchioni, P., Ricci, A., Vona, F., 2008. ‘Tecnologia, Produttività e Capitale Umano,’ report for the Umbria’s region, AUR.

 

Policy Papers and Blog Posts

1.    'What are green jobs and where they are?' LSE Business Review (with G. Marin and D. Consoli)

2.    ‘Promoting the energy transition through innovation’, blog OFCE (with L. Nesta and E. Verdolini)

3.    Le origini familiari e le retribuzioni degli avvocati italiani: nepotismo o abilità?, Etica ed Economia (with M. Raitano)

4.    ‘Following in the parents’ footsteps: nepotism or transfer of skills?,’ LSE Business Review (with M. Raitano)

5.    ‘La sinistra, la globalizzazione e il pensiero liberal,’ Etica ed Economia (with M. Franzini).

6.    ‘Politiques environnementales: Contraint ou Opportunité ?,’ policy brief de l’OFCE (English version in the blog of the INNOPATHS project).

7.    ‘L'inégalité intergénérationnelle dans quatre grands pays de l'UE: un seul modèle peut expliquer tout?,’ blog de l’OFCE.

8.    ‘Green Skills,’ vox.eu (with Consoli, D., Marin, G., Popp, D.).

9.    ‘I ricchi e i loro paradisi (fiscali),’ Etica ed Economia.

10.  ‘The promotion of renewable energy innovation: when state intervention and competition go hand in hand,’ with L. Nesta, policy brief RASTANEWS and Note OFCE (a shorter version is also available at the blog de l’OFCE).

11.  ‘Better abilities or stronger social ties? Drivers of social immobility across EU countries,’ blog de l’OFCE.

12.  ‘Inequality and Global Imbalances: reconsidering old ideas to address new problems,’ with J-L Gaffard, blog de l’OFCE.

13.   ‘Human capital policies and inequality in recessions’ times,’ blog de l’OFCE,

14.   ‘Capitale umano e mobilità sociale,’ sbilanciamoci.info.

15. ‘Una storia finlandese per il ministro Gelmini,’ with E. Segre, sbilanciamoci.info.

 

B.  TEACHING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

Teaching Experience

-          Currently assigned: Labour Economics, joint Ph.D. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and University Cote d’Azur (shared with Marco Vivarelli, 12h each); Climate Change Policies, Ca’ Foscari University Ph.D. Climate Change (shared with Enrica De Cian, 15h each); Natural Resources Economics, Ca’ Foscari University (30h); Introduction to Economics part-2, H-Farm/Ca’ Foscari University (30h)

-          Past: Climate Change Policies, Ca’ Foscari University Ph.D. Climate Change (15h, 2017/2018); Natural Resources Economics, Ca’ Foscari University (30h, 2017/2018); Introduction to Economics part-2, H-Farm/Ca’ Foscari University (30h, 2017/2018); Microeconomics (30h, Bachelor, SciencesPo, Menton Campus 2015/2016); International Economics (24h, Bachelor, SciencesPo, Menton Campus 2013/2014-2014/2015-2015/2016); Statistics (15h, Master Digital Business, SKEMA Business School 2014/2015); Economics of Globalization (24h, Master1, SKEMA 2012/2013-2013/2014); Environmental Economics (30h, Bachelor, SKEMA 2011/2012); International Economics and Policies (30h, Master2 in Economics and Business, SKEMA 2011/2012-2012/2013); Economics Dynamics (6h, Doctoral School La Sapienza 2009/2010); Graduate advanced course ‘Innovation, Growth, Employment, International Production: Models and Data Analyses,’ Rome (4h, 2008/2009-2009/10); Graduate summer school ‘Policies for Innovation and Growth,’ Piediluco (4h, 2006/2007).

 

Membership of Professional Organizations

-          European Association of Labour Economists

-          European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

-          Italian Economic Association

-          Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (candidate council member)

 

Organization of Conferences and Seminars

-          Joint research seminars OFCE-SKEMA-GREDEG 2015-2018

-          Workshop on ‘Beyond Routinization: Trade, Innovation and the Changing Nature of Jobs,’ Nice June 2017

-          Workshop on Economic Geography OFCE-SKEMA-GREDEG 2016

-          8th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics EMAEE 2013

-          OFCE Workshop on Inequality and Macroeconomic Performance 2012

 

Writing of Projects (funded and not)

-          In preparation: The Future of High-Carbon Regions in Europe (I will be in charge of the socio-economic impacts especially on employment and wages)

-          SEER 2018 on the impact of new digital technologies on jobs and skills (workpackage leader, not funded)

-          Regional expertise alignment and firm performance 2017: University Cote d’Azur, IDEX fundamental project (workpackage leader, funded 2018-2020).

-          INNOPATHS 2016: Innovation pathways, strategies and policies for the Low-Carbon Transition in Europe (team leader, funded 2017-2020);

-          ISIgrowth 2015: Innovation-fueled, Sustainable, Inclusive Growth (research associate, funded);

-          MAESTRIA 2015: Modelling and Analysis of the European energy System TRansformation driven by Innovation and Actors (team leader, not funded);

-          RASTANEWS 2013 on macro-risk assessment and stabilization policies (task leader, funded);

-          POLINEQ 2009 on inequality and policies (not funded);

-          POLHIA 2008 on fiscal and structural policies with heterogeneous agents (co-team leader, funded);

-          INDIE 2007 on measures and evaluation of well-being (not funded).

 

Referee for: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Cambridge Journal of Economics, Climatic Change, Eastern Economic Journal, Economia Politica, Ecological Economics, Economics of Innovation and New Technologies, Energy Economics, Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Energy Research and Social Science, Environmental and Resource Economics, Environment and Planning A, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Information Economics and Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industry and Innovation, International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Economic Inequality, Manchester School, Oxford Economic Papers, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), Research Policy, Resource and Energy Economics, Revue de l’OFCE, Social Science Research, World Review of Science Technology and Sustainable Development.

Selected Presentations

2018: Paris School of Economics, seminar series on environmental and resource economics (planned); London School of Economics Grantham Institute (planned); Invited speaker at the IEB Symposium on ‘R&D and Energy’ (Barcelona); OECD Economic Department (Paris); University of Rome La Sapienza (Rome); Expert workshop on the creation and uses of combined environmental and economic performance datasets at the micro-level OECD (Paris).

2017: Seminar Fondazione Enrico Mattei (Venice); Workshop on Innovation and Finance (Nice); Seminar Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa); Annual Conference on the Economic Assessment of European Climate Policies (EUI, Florence).

2016: American Economic Association (San Francisco); EALE 28th European Association of Labour Economists (Ghent); 4th IZA Workshop on Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies (Bonn); Seminar Fondazione Enrico Mattei (Milan); Invited Speaker Conference ‘Le Politiche per l’Ambiente in Italia’ (Napoli), 5th ZEW Energy Conference (Mannheim).

2015: Conference on Economics of innovation, diffusion, growth and the environment, London School of Economics (London); 3rd IZA Workshop on Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies (Berlin); Seminar IEB, series on economic geography (Barcelona).

2014: Seminar IEB, series on energy and environmental economics (Barcelona); Invited speaker at the IEB Symposium on ‘R&D and Energy’ (Barcelona); Seminar University of Verona; Journée d'étude compétitivité et politiques publiques, SciencesPo (Paris); WCERE 5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (Istanbul); TASK 3 Changing Tasks- Consequences for Inequality, IAB (Nuremberg); Seminar Center for Policy Research (Syracuse).

2013: EALE 25th European Association of Labour Economists (Turin); Seminar Science & Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex (Brighton).

2012: Invited speaker at 12th IAEE (International Association of Energy Economists) European Conference (Venice); Seminar Manchester Institute of Innovation Research; Workshop on Inequality and Macroeconomic Performance (Paris); Seminar Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management (Ingegno, Valencia); Seminar Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonoma University Barcelona; Seminar Fondazione Enrico Mattei (Milan).

2011: EALE 23th European Association of Labour Economists (Papos, Cyprus); Seminar Department of Economics, Parthenope University (Naples); Seminar SKEMA Business School (Nice).

2010: Seminar University of Ferrara; Seminar of the group for the analysis of inequality, University of Rome; International Association for Research on Income and Wealth I.A.R.I.W. 31st General Conference (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

2009: Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR, Seminar on ‘Innovation, Technical Change and Growth’ (Rome); Seminar SKEMA Business School (Nice).