SIMONA BENEDETTINI – Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum
PERSONAL DETAILS
SIMONA BENEDETTINI
Place and date of birth: Piombino, LI, 02 - 06 – 1983
Address: Lear Consulting - Via di Monserrato 48, 00186, Rome.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2014 – Present
Consultant at Lear – Laboratorio, Economia, Regolazione, Antitrust, Rome.
June 2013 – August 2014
Research fellow at Fondazione Centro Studi Enel, Rome.
September – June 2013
Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics I. University “L. Bocconi”, Milan.
June 2011 – June 2013
Research fellow at IEFE - Istituto di economia e politica dell'energia e dell'ambiente. University “L. Bocconi”, Milan.
April 2011 – June 2013
External Consultant at COMPASS LEXECON SPAIN.
EDUCATION
July 2011
Ph.D. in Law and Economics. University of Siena. Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Nicita.
August 2010 – November 2010
Visiting scholar at University of Illinois – College of Law at Urbana – Champaign. Supervisor: Prof. Nuno Garoupa.
July 2008
MSc in Law and Economics. University of Siena.
July 2007
MSc in Finance. University of Pisa.
October 2005
BA in Business Administration. University of Pisa.
July 2009
Summer school in Causal Inference and Program Evaluation. Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.
September 2008
Summer school in Panel Data Analysis and Limited Dependent Variable Models. Centro Interuniversitario di Econometria
(CIDE), Italy.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
2009. "Analisi e Impatto Economico delle Liberalizzazioni sul Mercato Energetico Italiano ed Europeo", Simona
Benedettini, Stefano Da Empoli, and Alessandro Fiorini Eds.
Chapters in books
2012. “Towards the Economics of Comparative Law”, with A. Nicita. In: Giuseppe Monateri (Eds), Methods of Comparative
Law. Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.
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Scholarly articles and working papers
2014. “Il trasporto ferroviario regionale in Italia: tracce di concorrenza?”, with C. Stagnaro. Mercato concorrenza regole 2
(2014).
2013. “PJM and ISO-NE forward capacity markets. A critical assessment”. IEFE Research Report 12/2013.
2013. “Italian regulation of electricity distribution and its impact on efficiency, investments and innovation: a qualitative
assessment”, with F. Pontoni. Competition and Regulation in Network Industries ,Vol. 14 (4).
2012. “The costs of avoiding accidents. Selective compliance and the ‘Peltzman Effect’ in Italy”, with A. Nicita.
International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 32 (2).
2010. “Towards the Economics of Comparative Law: the ‘Doing Business’ Debate”, with A. Nicita. Comparative Law Review,
1 (2010).
2009. “Sei anni di patenti a punti in Italia: una storia Beckeriana?”, with A. Nicita. Mercato concorrenza regole 11 (2009).
2009. “Deterrence, Incapacitation and Enforcement Design. Evidence from Traffic Law Enforcement in Italy”, with A.
Nicita. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica n. 564. University of Siena.
2009. “On Convergence across Transition Economies’ Financial Markets: the Role of Creditor Rights”. Quaderni del
Dipartimento di Economia Politica n. 580. University of Siena.
Work in progress
“Do capacity support schemes work? Evidence from the last three decades”, with G. Cervigni and C. Stagnaro.
Media
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23 Dec. 2014. Capacity market UK: buon disegno ma il problema è nel manico. Staffeta Quotidiana.
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16 Oct. 2014. Il Nobel a Tirole: la modernità del rigore tecnico, with Carlo Stagnaro. Leoni Blog.
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16 Oct. 2014. Tutti i punti di contatto tra il Nobel Tirole e la Renzi Economics, with Carlo Stagnaro. Il Foglio.
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14 Oct. 2014. Energy regulation, a bridge to 2025: che strano compito per il mercato elettrico. AgiEnergia.
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26 Sep. 2014. Energia elettrica: è l’ora dei prezzi negativi, with Carlo Stagnaro. lavoce.info.
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27 May 2014. The case for allowing negative electricity prices, with Carlo Stagnaro. Energy Post.
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6 May. 2014. Gary Becker, il rivoluzionario di Chicago che ha reso l’economia meno triste, with Carlo Stagnaro. Il Foglio.
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19 Mar. 2014. Italia: il capacity market che non c’è. AgiEnergia.
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1° Mar. 2014. Federalismo fiscale? Ancora un miraggio. Strade.
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21 Nov. 2013. Genova e altro: privatizzare conviene, ma non è un pranzo di gala, with Carlo Stagnaro. Il Foglio.
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20 Jul. 2013. Valide ragioni per tenere l’Autorità dei trasporti fuori Roma, with Carlo Stagnaro. Il Foglio.
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15 Jul. 2013. Ma la vera concorrenza resta un traguardo lontano, with Carlo Stagnaro. Corriere Economia.
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2012. La SEN e il taglio al costo dell’energia. lavoce.info
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2009. Rivoluzionare la patente a punti ‘potrebbe funzionare di nuovo, with A. Nicita. Repubblica.it .
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2009. Patente a punti flop, by Roberta Carlini. Published on L' Espresso n. 5/2009.
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Sostenibilità e crescita (in Italian), speech at the radio program Derrick di Radio Radicale. Available at:
http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/305822/derrick .
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SOFTWARE AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCES
Windows: Microsoft Office. Text softwares: LaTeX. Statistical softwares: R; STATA.
Italian: mother tongue; English: fluent; French and Spanish: basic.
CONFERENCES
June 2012
First Annual Conference on the Regulation of Infrastructure Industries. Florence School of Regulation (FSR), EUI.
October 2011
52a Conferenza della Società Italiana Economisti. University Roma Tre, (IT).
May 2011
21st American Law and Economics Meeting. Columbia University, (IT).
July 2010
2nd Petralia Sottana Applied Economic Workshop. University of Palermo, (IT).
June 2010
14th Conference of the International Society of New Institutional Economics. University of Stirling, (GB).
L&E International Workshop Siena, Tel Aviv, Toronto. University of Siena, (IT).
December 2009
5th Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (SIDE). University of Florence, (IT).
October 2009
9th Midwestern Law and Economics Association (MLEA) Annual Meeting. University of Notre Dame, (USA - IN).
September 2009
Conference of the Centre for International Capital Markets (CICM) on '20 Years of Transition in Central and Eastern Europe:
Money, Banking and Financial Markets'. London Metropolitan Business School, (GB).
Conference of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE). LUISS Guido Carli, (IT)
June 2009
13th Conference of the International Society of New Institutional Economics. University of Berkeley, (USA - CA).
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