DANIELE TAVANI

Professore associato

email: Daniele.Tavani@Colostate.edu




Current Position
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Economics, Colorado State University.

Previous Appointments
August 2009 – June 2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Colorado State University.

Other Appointments
June – July 2014 and September 2015 – January 2016: Visiting Scholar, Department of Social Sciences and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome.
December 2011 – January 2012 and May – June 2013: Visiting Professor, Faculty of International Economics and Business, Foreign Trade University, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Research Fields
Economic Growth, Income and Wealth Distribution, Applied Macroeconomics, Political Economy.

Teaching Fields
Macroeconomics, Economic Growth and Income Distribution, Microeconomics, Political Economy, Mathematical Economics, Mathematics for Economists, Econometrics.

Education
2009: Ph.D. Economics, The New School for Social Research.
2009: Dottorato in Economia Politica (XIX Ciclo), Sapienza University of Rome.
2008: M.Phil. Economics, The New School for Social Research. Qualifying Fields: Microeconomics, Econometrics.
2004: Summer School in Time Series Econometrics, CIDE, Bertinoro (FO), Italy.
2003: M.A., Public Economics, Sapienza University of Rome. Qualifying Field: Economics of Public Administration.
2002: Laurea (BA), Economics, Sapienza University of Rome.
1994: Maturita` Classica, Liceo Ginnasio Statale “Terenzio Mamiani,” Rome.

Scientific Output
Books
Growth and Distribution, Second Edition, with Duncan K. Foley and Thomas R. Michl. Harvard University Press, February 2019.

Refereed Journal Articles
1. Consumption Externalities and Growth: Theory and Evidence for the United States, with Luke Petach. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.02.021, March 2019.

2. Marx-Biased Technical Change and Income Distribution: a Panel Data Analysis, with Travis Campbell. Forthcoming, Metroeconomica. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3196104.

3. Growth, Income Distribution, and the ‘Entrepreneurial State’, with Luca Zamparelli. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Online First. https://doi.org/10.10- 07/s00191-018-0555-7, January 2018.

4. Endogenous Technical Change in Alternative Theories of Growth and Income Distribution, with Luca Zamparelli. Journal of Economic Surveys, 31 (5), pp. 1272-1303, November 2017.

5. Government Spending Composition, Aggregate Demand, Growth and Distribution, with Luca Zamparelli. Review of Keynesian Economics 5 (2), pp. 239- 258, April 2017.

6. Integrating Engineering Outputs from Natural Disaster Models into a Spatial General Equilibrium Model of Centerville, with Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields, and Sammy Zahran. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 1 (3-4), pp. 169-187, December 2016.

7. A Tale of Two Ginis in the US, 1921-2012, with Markus Schneider. Interna- tional Review of Applied Economics, 30 (6), pp. 677-692, November 2016.

8. PublicCapital, Redistribution and Growth in a Two-class Economy, with Luca Zamparelli. Metroeconomica, 67 (2), pp. 203-498, May 2016.

9. Endogenous Technical Change, Employment and Distribution in the Goodwin Model of the Growth Cycle, with Luca Zamparelli. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, vol. 19 (2), pp. 209-226, April 2015.

10. Credit-Driven Investment, Heterogeneous Labour Markets and Macroeconomic Dynamics, with Matthieu Charpe, Peter Flaschel, Hans–Martin Krolzig, Christian Proano, and Willi Semmler. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, vol. 10 (1), pp. 163-181, April 2015.

11. Capitalists, Workers, and Managers: Effective Demand and Wage Inequality, with Ramaa Vasudevan. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 30, pp. 120-131, September 2014.

12. Redistribution in a Neo–Kaleckian Two Country Model, with Rudiger von Arnim and Laura Carvalho. Metroeconomica, vol. 65 (3), pp. 430-459, July 2014.

13. Daily Variation in Natural Disaster Casualties: Information Flows, Safety, and Opportunity Costs in Tornado Versus Hurricane Strikes, with Sammy Zahran and Stephan Weiler. Risk Analysis, vol. 33 (7), pp. 1265-1280, July 2013.

14. Bargaining over Productivity and Wages when Technical Change is Induced: Implications for Growth, Distribution, and Employment. Journal of Economics – Springer, vol. 109 (3), pp. 207-244, July 2013.

15. Wage Bargaining and Induced Technical Progress in a Linear Economy: Model and Application to the US (1963-2003). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 23 (2), pp. 117-126, June 2012.

16. Embedding Care and Unpaid Work in Macroeconomic Modeling: a Structuralist Approach, with Elissa Braunstein and Irene van Staveren. Feminist Economics, vol. 17 (4), pp. 5-31, October 2011.

17. Estimated Non-linearities and Multiple Equilibria in a Model of Distributive-Demand Cycles, with Peter Flaschel and Lance Taylor. International Review of Applied Economics. vol. 25( 5), pp. 519-538, September 2011.

Book Chapters and Reprints
18. Daily Variation in Natural Disaster Casualties: Information Flows, Safety, and Opportunity Costs in Tornado Versus Hurricane Strikes, with Sammy Zahran and Stephan Weiler. In Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering from Hurricane Flooding Disasters, Risk Analysis Virtual Special Issue, September 2018.

19. Endogenous Technical Change in Alternative Theories of Growth and Income Distribution, with Luca Zamparelli, Chapter 6 in In Veneziani, R., and Zamparelli, L., eds. (2018) Analytical Political Economy, Wiley.

20. The Distributive Cycle with a Non-Linear Wage-Phillips Curve. In Chiarella, C., Flaschel, P., and Semmler, W. (2011). Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics - Part I: Partial Perspectives. Routledge.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles
21. Gli Approcci Economici Alternativi e la Crisi (Alternative Approaches to Economics and the Crisis), Critica Marxista n. 3-4/2011 (in Italian).

Articles under Review
22. Income Shares, Secular Stagnation, and the Long-run Distribution of Wealth, with Luke Petach. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstrac=3198311
23. No One is Alone: Strategic Complementarities, Capacity Utilization, Growth, and Income Distribution, with Luke Petach.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3123149

Working Papers
1. Firm Beliefs and Long-Run Demand Effects in a Labor-Constrained Growth Model. PKES Working paper No. 1903, February 2019..
2. Income Shares, Secular Stagnation, and the Long-run Distribution of Wealth, with Luke Petach. FMM Working Paper No. 25, 2018.
3. No One is Alone: Strategic Complementarities, Capacity Utilization, Growth, and Income Distribution, with Luke Petach. FMM Working Paper No. 19, 2018.
4. Growth, Income Distribution, and the ‘Entrepreneurial State’, with Luca Zamparelli. Working Paper 11/2017, Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research.
5. Endogenous Technical Change in Alternative Models of Growth and Distri- bution, with Luca Zamparelli. DISS Working Paper No. 1/2017, Sapienza University of Rome.
6. DistributiveConflict,Growth,andthe‘EntrepreneurialState’,withLucaZam- parelli. DISS Working Paper No. 6/2016, Sapienza University of Rome.
7. Government Spending Composition, Aggregate Demand, Growth and Distri- bution, with Luca Zamparelli. Working Paper No. 158/2015, Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK); DISS Working Paper No. 7/2015, Sapienza University of Rome.
8. Tale of Two Ginis in the US, 1921-2012, with Markus Schneider. Working Paper No. 826, Levy Economics Institute, January 2015.
9. PublicGoods,Redistribution,andGrowth:aClassicalModel,withLucaZam- parelli. DISS Working Paper No. 10/2014, Sapienza University of Rome.
10. Endogenous Technical Change, Employment and Distribution in the Good- win Model of the Growth Cycle, with Luca Zamparelli. Working Paper No. 127/2013, Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK).
11. Credit-DrivenInvestment,HeterogeneousLabourMarketsandMacroeconomic Dynamics, with Matthieu Charpe, Peter Flaschel, Hans–Martin Krolzig, Chris- tian Proano, and Willi Semmler. Working Paper No. 110/2013, Macroeco- nomic Policy Institute (IMK).
12. Capitalists, Workers, and Managers: Effective Demand and Wage Inequality, with Ramaa Vasudevan. Working Paper No. 7/2012, The New School for Social Research.
13. Globalization as a Coordination Failure: a Keynesian Perspective, with Rudi- ger von Arnim and Laura Barbosa de Carvalho. Working Paper No. 2/2012, The New School for Social Research.
14. A Structuralist Model of the Wage-Price Spiral with Non- Linear Demand Pressure Terms, with Peter Flaschel and Lance Taylor. CEMM working pa- per No. 155, Bielefeld University.
Reprinted as Chapter 4 in Flaschel, P., and Luchtenberg, S. 2012. Roads to Social Capitalism, Edward Eldgar.
15. Bargaining over Productivity and Wages when Technical Change is Induced: Implications for Growth, Distribution, and Employment. Working Paper No. 3/2011, Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research.
16. WageBargainingandInducedTechnicalProgressinaLinearEconomy:Model and Application to the US (1963-2003). EERI Research Paper Series No. 15/2009.

Grants, Honors, Awards
National Institute for Standards and Technology Grant for a Center of Excellence on Resilience Planning, 2015-20. Total grant amount: $20 million. Role: Investigator, Economic evaluation of resilience policies, with Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields, and Sammy Zahran, CSU.
Excellence in Teaching Award 2014, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State Uni- versity.
Professional Development Program Grant for Conference Participation, Colorado State University, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.
Faculty Development Fund award for outstanding research and creative activity pro- posal, Colorado State University, 2012.
Professional Development Program Grant for Conference participation and research residence period at Bielefeld University, Colorado State University, 2011.
Professional Development Program Grant for Classroom Applications of Controlled Experiments in Ultimatum Games, Colorado State University, 2010.
Women’s studies Teaching and Scholarship Project Grant, Colorado State University, 2010.
Henry Johnson Memorial Award in Economics, Civil Affairs and Education for PhD Dissertation, The New School for Social Research, NY, 2009.
Dissertation Fellowship, The New School For Social Research, NY, 2008-09. Melamid Prize Fellowship, The New School For Social Research, NY, 2005-08.
Qualified with Honors in Microeconomics, 2007, The New School for Social Re- search.
Qualified with Honors in Econometrics, 2006, The New School for Social Research. Scholarship for Graduate Studies Abroad, Sapienza University of Rome, 2005-06.
PhD Stipend, Italian Ministry of University and Research, 2003-04, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007.
INPDAP Scholarship, MA in Public Economics, University of Rome, 2002-03.

Teaching
At Colorado State University:
1. Macroeconomic Analysis II (PhD): Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013,
Fall 2014, Fall 2106, Fall 2017, Fall 2018.
2. Microeconomic Analysis I (PhD): Spring 2017.
3. Heterodox Approaches to Economics (PhD):Spring2010,Spring2011,Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017 (team-taught with Anders Fremstad), Spring 2019.
4. Macroeconomic Policy (BA/BS): Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2017.
5. IntermediateMacroeconomics(BA/BS):Spring2011,Summer2011,Fall2011, Winter 2011 (Foreign Trade University, Hanoi), Summer 2013 (FTU, Hanoi), Fall 2013.
6. PrinciplesofMacroeconomics(BA/BS):Fall2009(twosections),Spring2010, Summer 2010.

Previous Experience:
1. Advanced Econometrics I (PhD), The New School for Social Research, Fall
2008. Role: Course Instructor.
2. AdvancedMicroeconomicsI(PhD),TheNewSchoolforSocialResearch,Fall 2008. Role: Teaching Assistant. Instructor: Duncan K. Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics, The New School.
3. GraduateWorkshop:EconomicModelingwithMathematica,TheNewSchool for Social Research, Fall 2008. Role: Course Instructor.
4. Advanced Microeconomics II (PhD), The New School for Social Research, Fall 2008. Role: Teaching Assistant, Instructor: M. Ali Khan, Abram Hutzler Professor, Johns Hopkins University.
5. Graduate Workshop: Economics and Econometrics using MatLab, The New School for Social Research, Fall 2007. Role: Course Instructor, joint with Daniel Samaan.
6. Advanced Econometrics I (PhD), The New School for Social Research, Fall 2006, Fall 2007. Role: Teaching Assistant, Instructor: Professor Salih Neftci.
7. Statistics for Economics and Business, (BA), Barnard College, Columbia Uni- versity, Fall 2006. Role: Teaching Assistant. Instructor: Ramaa Vasudevan.


Conference Presentations
2019: Allied Social Sciences Association, Atlanta, GA. Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
2018: (i) XXI FMM Conference, Berlin; (ii) XXX EAEPE Conference, Nice, France; (iii) World Forum for Social Economics, Colorado State University; (iv) Analytical Political Economy Workshop, Wesleyan University; (v) Eastern Economic Associa- tion Annual Meeting, Boston; (vi) Allied Social Sciences Association, Philadelphia.
2017: (i) XXI FMM Conference, Berlin; (ii) Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York; (iii) Allied Social Sciences Association, Chicago.
2016: (i) Crisis 2016 Conference, Ancona, Italy; (ii) Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
2015: (i) XIX FMM Conference, Berlin, Germany.
2014: (i) Analytical Political Economy Workshop, Wesleyan University; (ii) Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
2013: (i) Analytical Political Economy Workshop, UMass-Amherst; (ii) Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY; (iii) XVIII FMM Confer- ence, Berlin, Germany.
2012: (i) IAPPE-AHE Conference, Paris; (ii) XVII FMM Conference, Berlin, Ger- many; Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
2011: (i) Allied Social Sciences Association Meeting; (ii) Eastern Economic Asso- ciation Annual Meeting, New York, NY; (iii) ICAPE Conference, UMass-Amherst; (iv) VIII International Colloquium, Galway, Ireland; (v) VIII Conference Develop- ments in Economic Theory and Policy, Bilbao, Spain; (vi) XVI FMM Conference, Berlin, Germany.
2010: (i) Missouri Valley Economic Association, St. Louis, MO; (ii) Eastern Eco- nomic Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
2009: (i) Rethinking Marxism, UMass-Amherst; (ii) EAERE 2009, Amsterdam; (iii) Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Invited Talks
University of Oklahoma, Department of Economics, 2018. University of Denver, Department of Economics, 2017. Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Economics and Law, 2014. University of Utah, Department of Economics, 2013. Colorado State University, Department of Mathematics, 2011. University of Den- ver, Department of Economics, 2010. Bard College, Department of Economics, 2009. Bucknell University, Department of Economics, 2009. Skidmore College, Department of Economics, 2009. Colorado State University, Department of Eco- nomics, 2009. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics, 2008. Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School, 2008.

Editorial Activity
June 2017 — Present: Associate Editor, Review of Social Economy.
Referee for: Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Metroeconomica, International Review of Applied Economics, Review of Keynesian Economics, The Sociological Quarterly, International Journal of Finance and Eco- nomics, Review of Social Economy, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Eco- nomic Issues, International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, Panoeconomicus.
Book proposals: Routledge; Columbia University Press, Oxford University Press.

ScientificSoftware
Mathematica (programming), MatLab (programming), Stata (programming),R (beginner), LaTeX.
Academic Service

Colorado State University, College of Liberal Arts: Professional Development Program Committee, 2016-17.
Colorado State University, Department of Economics: Graduate Program Coordi- nator, July 2017-present. Seminar series organizer, 2013-14, 2016-17. Graduate Program Committee, 2011, 2013–. Graduate Political Economy Committee, 2009- present. Graduate Macro Committee, 2009-present (Chair as of 2014). Scholarship Committee, 2010–11. Website Committee, 2012–13. Chair Advisory Committee, 2012–13, 2014, 2016.

Professional Affiliations
American Economic Association, Eastern Economic Association, Union for Radi- cal Political Economics, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Association for Social Economics, Post-Keynesian Economic Society.

© Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" - Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma