MONTEFORTE Fabio

Current Position
- Associate professor in Economics (ECON-01/A), Department of Economics, University of Messina

Education:
-Ph.D. in Economics, University of Bristol (UK), 2012
-Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Messina, 2010
-Visiting Research Student, Department of Economics, University of York (UK), 2006
-MSc in Economics (field of specialization: Quantitative Methods), Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, 2005
-Bachelor (4 years) in Political Science, Università di Messina, 2004

Research Interests
Growth and Structural Change, Economics of Political Corruption, Political Regimes and growth, Regional Economics

Selected Publications

2025 - Electing for stability: Democracy and output volatility, 1960-2019 (con Emanuele Millemaci, e Jonathan Temple), Economics Letters, 247, 112136.
2024 - Have Autocrats Governed for the Long Term? (con Emanuele Millemaci, e Jonathan Temple), Kyklos. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12425.
2024 - Corruption dynamics and political instability (con Maurizio Lisciandra, e Antonio Miralles Asensio), Journal of Public Economic Theory https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.1271.2
2024 - Search and Matching in Political Corruption (con Maurizio Lisciandra, e Antonio Miralles Asensio), The B.E. Journal Of Economic Analysis & Policy, 24 (1).
2021 - Development Priorities: The Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth (con Mathan Satchi e Jonathan Temple); Oxford Economic Papers, 73.3, 1122-1152.
2020 - Structural change, the push-pull hypothesis and the Spanish labour market; Economic Modelling, 86, 148-169.