Stefano Matta's  Curriculum Vitae ( in Italian  or English )

Address

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali

Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Viale S.Ignazio 17
09123 Cagliari
Italy

Contacts

• • (0039) 070 675 3340 (tel) 

  • (0039) 070 660 929 (fax) 

  • E-mail: smatta@unica.it

Personal Data

• Place/Date of birth: Cagliari (1970) 

• Citizenship: Italian

• Marital status: married

Current Position

• 2014 - present: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Cagliari

Past Position

• 2006-2014: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Cagliari

Visiting

• August 2007: National University of Singapore

Education

• PhD in Economics, 2005, Cagliari (Italy) 

• MSc in Economics, 2003,  Essex (UK) 

• BSc in Economics, 1993, Cagliari (Italy)

Honors

• PhD Scholarship, 2001–2004

• BSc Studentship, 1990–1993

Areas of interest

•  Manipulations of endowments and sunspot equilibria 

• Redistributive policies, price discontinuities, and uniqueness of equilibrium

•  Catastrophes minimization

• Smooth selection of prices,  structural stability, and bounded rationality

• Properties of regular and critical economies

•  Entropy, curvature, and uniqueness of equilibrium

•  Risk aversion and uniqueness of equilibrium

•  Information geometry and robustness of statistical models

Published/Accepted Papers

• "Endowments, patience types, and uniqueness in two-good HARA utility economies" (joint with Andrea Loi), Economic Theory Bulletin, 2024, doi   

• “A note on local uniqueness of equilibria: How isolated is a local equilibrium?", Economics Bulletin, 2023, Vol. 43, Issue 3, pp. 1389-1394

• "Robustness of statistical manifolds" (joint with Andrea Loi), Topology and its Applications, 2023, 327, doi 

• "Equilibrium selection under changes in endowments: A geometric approach", (joint with Andrea Loi and Daria Uccheddu), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2023, 108,  doi 

• "Risk Aversion and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Economies with Two Goods and Arbitrary Endowments"  (joint with Andrea Loi), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2022, doi

• "Minimal entropy and uniqueness of price equilibria in a pure exchange economy" (joint with Andrea Loi),  Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2021, 97, doi 

• “Curvature and uniqueness of equilibrium” (joint with Andrea Loi), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2018, 74, 62-67, doi 

• “On the topology of the set of critical equilibria” (joint with Andrea Loi), International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016,  12, 107-126, doi: 10.1111/ijet.12084 

• “Increasing complexity in structurally stable models: An application to a pure exchange economy” (joint with Andrea Loi), Journal of Mathematical Economics,  2015, 57, pp. 20-24, doi 

• “Structural stability and catastrophes” (joint with Andrea Loi), Economics Bulletin, 2012, Vol.32, no.44, pp. 3378-3385

• “Measures of economies with an arbitrarily large number of equilibria” (joint with Andrea Loi),  International Journal of Economic Theory, 2012, 8, pp. 337-343, doi: 10.1111/j.1742-7363.2012.00194.x

• “Catastrophes minimization on the equilibrium manifold” (joint with Andrea Loi), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2011, 47, pp. 617-620, doi:10.1016/j.jmateco.2011.08.003

• “A note on the structural stability of the equilibrium manifold” (joint with Andrea Loi), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2010, 46, pp. 591-594, doi:10.1016/j.jmateco.2010.04.001

• “Evolution paths on the equilibrium manifold” (joint with Andrea Loi), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2009, vol. 44, pp. 854-859, doi:10.1016/j.jmateco.2009.07.003

• “Geodesics on the equilibrium manifold” (joint with Andrea Loi), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2008, vol. 44, pp. 1379-1384, doi:10.1016/j.jmateco.2008.07.001

• “Manipulation of endowments and sunspot equilibria” (joint with Aditya Goenka), Economic Theory, 2008, 36, pp. 267-282, DOI 10.1007/s00199-007-0265-0

• “A Riemannian metric on the equilibrium manifold: the smooth case” (joint with Andrea Loi), Economics Bulletin, 2006, Vol.4, no.30, pp.1-9

• “A Riemannian metric on the equilibrium manifold”, Economics Bulletin, 2005, Vol.4, no.7, pp.1-7

Working papers

• "Uniqueness of equilibrium and redistributive policies: a geometric approach to efficiency" (joint with Andrea Loi and Daria Uccheddu), 2024,   link 

Participation in research projects

• 2019: STAGE - "STatistics, Algebra, Geometry and Economics",  a project financed by Fondazione di Sardegna –  L.R. 7/2007.

• 2016: “Economic Growth, Cultural Values and Institutional Design: Theory and Empirical Evidence”,  a project financed by Fondazione di Sardegna – L.R. 7/2007.

• 2015: “Real and Complex Manifolds; Geometry, Topology and Harmonic Analysis", PRIN project.

• 2010: “Una rilettura del carattere dualistico dell’economia italiana alla luce dei nuovi scheme interpretativi emersi dal dibattito teorico ed empirico”,  project financed by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna.

Conferences organized

• 2024: Co-organizer and Chair of the Scientific Committee of Islands of Europe: II Intercultural Forum, link 

• 2023: Co-organizer and Chair of the Scientific Committee of Islands of Europe: I Intercultural Forum, link 

Presentations

• 2024: Universitat de les Illes Balears, Càtedra de la Insularitat, Mallorca

• 2023: JIMEX (Jornada Informativa de Mercados Exteriores), Cámara Gran Canaria

• 2018: SIE, Bologna (Italy)

• 2016: SIE, Bocconi Milan (Italy)

• 2016: GEdays, York (UK)

• 2014: GEdays, York (UK)

• 2009: Public Economic Theory Annual Conference, Galway (Ireland)

• 2008: XVII European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory, Peastum (Italy)

• 2007: Fourth Asian General Equilibrium Theory Workshop, Singapore

• 2006: Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures, Lund (Sweden)

• 2005: Public Economic Theory Meeting, Marseille (France)

Teaching

• 2024-2025: Economics of Renewable Energy (Graduate)

• 2019 - present: Economics of Networks (Graduate)

• 2007 - present: Microeconomics (Undergraduate)

• 2007-2024: Macroeconomics (Undergraduate)

• 2015 - 2017: Economics (Undergraduate)

• 2014 - 2015: Topics in Microeconomics (Graduate)

• 2006 - 2010: General Equilibrium Theory (Graduate)

Supervision

• 2006 - present: Supervision of Final Year Undergraduate Dissertations in the Economics and Business Management Degree Programme

• 2021 - present: Supervision of Graduate Dissertations in the Data Science, Business Analytics and Innovation Degree Program

Administrative Experience

• 2017- July 2021: Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Data Science, Business Analytics and Innovation, University of Cagliari

• 2019-2020: Participation in the board of the International PhD program in Economics and Business Sciences, University of Cagliari

• 2008: Organized the visit of Professor Aditya Goenka, National University of Singapore

• 2007: Organized the visit of Professor Aditya Goenka, National University of Singapore

Refereeing

• Refereeing for the Journal of Mathematical Economics, Economics Bulletin, Bulletin of Economic Research, Journal of Economic Geography, International Journal of Economic Theory, Land

Consulting Experience

• 1995 - 2006 Chartered Accountant

Cagliari, September 5, 2024