BIAGIO SPECIALE

ECARES - Université Libre de Bruxelles
50 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt
CP 114/04
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium


Phone #:           +32 (0)2 6503469
Cell Phone
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Email:               biagio.speciale@ulb.ac.be



















CV 

Research

Teaching



Research








WORKING PAPERS

  • Does immigration affect public education expenditures? Quasi-experimental evidence, 2011. Invited to Revise and Resubmit (3rd round) to Journal of Public Economics.
  • Remittances and public spending on education, 2011. Invited to Revise and Resubmit to World Bank Economic Review.
  • Legal status and consumption behavior of immigrant households, 2011. With Christian Dustmann (University College London) and Francesco Fasani (IAE). Mimeo.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  • Are educational policies elitist?, forthcoming. Oxford Economic Papers.
  • Immigrants' legal status, permanence in the destination country and the distribution of consumption expenditure, forthcoming. Applied Economics Letters. With Matteo Barigozzi (London School of Economics and Political Science).
  • Financial leverage and managerial compensation: evidence from the UK, 2011. Research in Economics 65 (1), pp. 36-46. With Gianluca Papa (ECARES).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • Immigration policies in the EU: challenges and priorities, 2010. Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique XLIX (2-3).
  • Le rimesse degli immigrati residenti in Italia (Remittances of immigrants living in Italy), 2009. With Francesco Fasani (IAE). In Fondazione ISMU ed.: XIV Rapporto sulle migrazioni 2008. Franco Angeli (in Italian).
  • Migration and educational policies, 2008. Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique XLVII (3).
  • Consumption, saving and remittance behaviour of undocumented migrants in Italy, 2008. With Gian Carlo Blangiardo (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) and Francesco Fasani (IAE). In L. Di Comite, F. Galizia and O. Garavello eds.: Sviluppo demografico ed economico nel Mediterraneo, Cacucci Editore.
  • How much does infrastructure matter to growth in Sub-Saharan Africa?, 2005. With Antonio Estache (ECARES) and David Veredas (ECARES). Prepared for the World Bank.

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • Return from displacement and women's economic empowerment in Afghanistan, 2011. With Abdul Noury (New York University).
  • The globalization of organized crime, 2011. With Tommaso Aquilante (ECARES) and Guido Maretto (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).






Teaching

I teach the course "Selected Topics in European Economics: the Economics of European Immigration" at the Institut d’études européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the course "Introduction à l'économie" at the Université Libre de Bruxelles-Campus de Charleroi.

















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