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Francesco Pigliaru, the new president of Sardinia



Reuters - The center-left candidate in Italy's Sardinia was on course for victory on Monday after a local election that will give a lift to Matteo Renzi, the Democratic Party leader expected to become Italy's next prime minister.

With just over half of the vote counted, official figures showed center-left candidate Francesco Pigliaru was on course to win with 43 percent of the vote ahead of his center-right rival, the current regional governor Ugo Cappellacci on 38.5 percent.

The result will have no direct impact on the national government but offers encouragement to the center-left in the first concrete test of its popularity since Renzi won the Democratic Party (PD) leadership primary in December.

Sunday's vote in Sardinia, an Italian region, followed the unexpected departure last week of Enrico Letta, who resigned as prime minister after growing pressure from Renzi to move more quickly on economic reforms.

The Sardinian ballot also was of no help to the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement. It did not field a candidate in the race following a rupture between the local party and the movement's leader, comedian Beppe Grillo.

Reporting By James Mackenzie Editing by Jeremy Gaunt


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I'm glad that Ugo Cappellacci did not win! :)
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Pigliaru in comparison with Cappellacci has got a remarkable curriculum vitae.


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EDUCATION

1981 Master of Philosophy in Economics, University of Cambridge
1979 Diploma, Scuola Superiore di Economia "Enrico Mattei", Milan
1978 Dottore in Scienze Politiche (Laurea cum Laude in Economia), Università
di Sassari



SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

2004- University of Cagliari coordinator, EU funded CoCombine project
(with the University of Cambridge, UK)
2002- Interreg IIIC on Economic performance of Small Islands in the EU
1998-99 Local coordinator, COFIN (Murst) grant for research project on
Structural Dynamics and Regional Convergence across the EU
1995-97 Coordinator, two-year CNR grant for CRENoS-Norteastern University
joint project on Economic Growth and Change
1988-89 CNR grant for research project on regional growth at the University
of California-Berkeley
1982-83 "Ente per gli studi bancari, monetari e finanziari Luigi Einaudi"
Fellowship, Rome [Luigi Einaudi Foundation for Banking, Monetary
and Financial Studies]
1980-82 "Luciano Jona" Fellowship, Istituto Bancario S. Paolo di Torino
1978-79 ENI Fellowship, Milan
APPOINTMENTS
2006 Scientific Committee, First Conference of the International
Association for Tourism Economics, Palma de Mallorca, October
2007
2004- Associated Editor, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia
2004-06 Assessore alla Programmazione, Bilancio, Credito e Assetto del
Territorio, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
2003-04 University of Cagliari Representative for the Euro-Mediterranean
Master Program MEMA
2001-03 External Examiner, Masters in Finance and Development, CeFiMS,
SOAS, University of London
2001 Director, TIM-CRENoS Summer School on New Economy and
Economic Gaps
2000- Italian representative, European COST Action on Small and Medium
Enterprises and Economic Integration”
2000- Coordinator, Dottorato di Ricerca in Economia, Università di Cagliari
1998-01 Board of Directors, Banco di Sardegna SpA
1998-99 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Soas, University of
London
1993-98 Director of the "Centro Ricerche Economiche Nord Sud" (CRENoS)
[Center for Research on North-South Economic Research],
Università di Cagliari
1992-01 Associate Professor in Economics and International Economics at the
Università di Cagliari
1988-89 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California-
Berkeley
1984-92 Ricercatore Universitario, Università di Cagliari
1980-83 Research Student, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge,
UK



EDITED VOLUMES

2005 The Economics Of Tourism And Sustainable Development (co-editors: A.
Lanza, A. Markandya), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar
1999 Economic Growth and Change. National and Regional Patterns of
Convergence and Divergence (co-editor: J. Adams), Cheltenham, UK:
Edward Elgar



ARTICLES

2007 How to Measure the Unobservable: a Panel Technique for the Analysis of
TFP Convergence (co-authors: A. DiLiberto and R. Mura), forthcoming in:
Oxford Economic Papers
2006 Agglomeration and growth in the NEG: a critical assessment (co-author:
F. Cerina), forthcoming in: B. Fingleton (ed.), New Directions in
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2005 An Investigation on the Growth Performance of Small Tourism Countries
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Economics Of Tourism And Sustainable Development, Cheltenham, UK:
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(co-authors Rinaldo Brau and Alessandro Lanza), Feem Working Paper
no. 85.2003
2003 Disparities in Economic Growth and Unemployment across the European
Regions: a Sectoral Perspective (co-authors Raffaele Paci and Maurizio
Pugno), in: B. Fingleton, A. Eraydin and R. Paci (eds), Regional growth,
SMEs and the wider Europe, Ashgate.
2003 Detecting technological catching-up in economic convergence,
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2003 Turismo e sviluppo economico (a cura di), Equilibri, 3/2003, 321-35.
2002 Technological diffusion, spatial spillovers and regional convergence in
Europe (co-author Raffaele Paci), in: J.R. Cuadrado-Roura and M.
Parellada (eds), Regional convergence in the European Union, Berlin:
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caso delle regioni europee (co-author Raffaele Paci), in: P.C. Padoan
(editor), L'euro e i mercati reali, Bologna: il Mulino, 139-161.
2000 Tourism and economic growth: does country’s size matter?, Rivista
Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, 47, pp.77-85.
2000 Why are tourism countries small and fast-growing? (co-author A. Lanza),
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Development, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 57-69.
1999 Is dualism still a source of convergence in Europe? (co-author Raffaele
Paci), Applied Economics, 31, 1423-1436.
1999 Growth and sectoral dynamics in the Italian regions, in: J. Adams and F.
Pigliaru, editors, Economic Growth and Change. National and Regional
Patterns of Convergence and Divergence, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
1999 European regional growth: do sectors matter?, in: J. Adams and F.
Pigliaru, editors, Economic Growth and Change. National and Regional
Patterns of Convergence and Divergence, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
1998 International trade and uneven growth: a model with intersectoral
spillovers of knowledge (co-author Marina Murat), Journal of
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1997 Structural change and convergence. An Italian regional perspective (coauthor
R. Paci), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 8, 297-318.
1996 Economia del turismo: note su crescita, qualità ambientale e
sostenibilità, Contributi di Ricerca CRENoS, 96.12 [Economics of tourism:
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1995 Some Consequences of Low Quality Schooling Under Asymmetric
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1995 Specialization in tourism. The case of a small open economy, (co-author
A. Lanza), in: P. Nijkamp e H. Coccossis (eds), Tourism and the
environment, Aldershot UK, Avebury.
1995 Crescita ineguale e cambiamento strutturale indotto dal commercio, (coauthor
M. Murat), Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, LIII,
pp. 259-284. [Uneven growth and trade-induced structural change]
1995 Crescita ineguale e cambiamento strutturale indotto dal commercio
internazionale (co-author M. Murat), in: M. Pugno e L. Segnana (eds.),
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differentials among Italian regions: a cross-section analysis]
1994 The Tourist Sector in the Open Economy, (co-author A. Lanza), Rivista
Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, XLI, pp. 15-28.
[see also: F. Pigliaru e A. Lanza (1994), Erratum, Rivista Internazionale
di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, XLI, pp. 288].
1994 Scambi internazionali, Enciclopedia Italiana G. Treccani, V Appendice
[International trade]
1993 Gli effetti economici dell'integrazione europea sul settore industriale della
Sardegna, (co-authors F. Manca and R. Paci), Rivista Economica del
Mezzogiorno, 7, pp. 321-342. [Economic effects of European integration
on the Sardinian industrial sector]
1992 Trade within an industry in the presence of vertical product
differentiation and dynamic increasing returns, Open Economies Review,
3, pp. 165-179.
1992 Spillovers, Localized Learning and Comparative Advantage, (co-author L.
Segnana), in: O. Causer et al., Technological Innovation,
Competitiveness and Economic Growth, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
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dei beni di consumo, 1963-83, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze
Economiche e Commerciali, XXXVII, pp. 53-76. [Demand as a constraint
to growth. The case of the Mezzogiorno's consumer goods sector, 1963-
1983]
1990 Commercio internazionale, (co-author Marina Murat), in: G. Lunghini
(ed.), Dizionario di Economia Politica, Vol. 16, Torino: Bollati-Boringhieri,
pp. 11-100. [International trade]
1989 Determination of real wages. A comparative analysis of the Kaleckian and
Keynesian models, Annali della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, 14,.pp. 57-
79.
1987 The performance of the Mezzogiorno’s indigenous sector, 1951-70: A
discussion of Graziani’s effect and the cumulative causation hypothesis,
Studi Economici, 42, pp. 3-40.
1987 Alcune note sulla costruzione di una tavola regionale delle
interdipendenze settoriali, (co-author R. Paci) Annali della Facoltà di
Scienze Politiche, 12, pp. 51-72. [A note on the estimation of an inputoutput
table at the regional level]
1986 Politica economica e Zona Franca: il caso della Sardegna, (co-authors P.
Lepori, S. Lodde e R. Paci), Quaderni Sardi di Economia, XVI, pp. 47-71.
[Economic policy and Free Trade Zones: the case of Sardinia]
1984 A proposito del passaggio dal sottosviluppo allo sviluppo, Quaderni Sardi
di Economia, XIV, no. 3 [A note on the transition from underdevelopment
to development]
1983 Legge di Verdoorn e cumulative causation nel modello a due settori di
Kaldor: una nota, Quaderni Sardi di Economia, XIII, pp. 73-82
[Verdoorn's Law and cumulative causation in Kaldor's two-sector model].
1981 Evaluating the Effects of Italian Regional Policy, University of Cambridge,
mimeo. [Revised Italian version in Quaderni Sardi di Economia, 1981, XI,
pp. 359-381].



PAPERS PRESENTED AT RECENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

2006 How to Measure the unobservable: a Panel Technique for the analysis of
TFP Convergence, 13th International Conference on Panel Data,
Cambridge, UK, July
2005 How to Measure the unobservable: a Panel Technique for the analysis of
TFP Convergence, Cost Action (A 17) Open Conference (Knowledge and
Regional Economic Development), Barcellona, June
2005 How to Measure the unobservable: a Panel Technique for the analysis of
TFP Convergence, Royal Economic Society Conference, Nottingham,
March
2003 Agglomeration and growth in the NEG. A Critical assessment, University
of Cambridge, Dept of Land Economy, March
2003 How fast are the tourism countries growing?, ERSA Annual Conference,
August.
2003 A panel technique for the analysis of technological convergence: the case
of the Italian regions, ERSA Annual Conference, August.
2003 A panel technique for the analysis of technological convergence: the case
of the Italian regions, EEFS Annual Conference, March.
2001 Detecting technological catch-up in economic convergence, Old and New
Growth Theory: An Assessment, Pisa, October 5-7.
2000 Analisi della convergenza regionale: troppa o troppo poca?, Invited
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globale”, XXI Conferenza Annuale AISRe, Palermo 20-22 settembre.
2000 Technological catch-up and regional convergence in Europe, Annual
Conference of the Royal Economic Society, St. Andrews.
2000 Technological catch-up and regional convergence in Europe, ERSA
Annual Conference.
2000 Technological catch-up and regional convergence in Europe, Workshop
on Regional Growth in Europe, Santiago del Compostela.
1999 Technological catch-up and regional convergence in Europe, Annual
Meeting of the Society for Economic Dymanics, Alghero, June.
1999 Technological catch-up and regional convergence in Europe, ERSA Annual
Conference.
1998 Is dualism still a source of convergence in Europe?, ERSA Annual
Conference.
1998 Is dualism still a source of convergence in Europe? Annual Conference of
the Royal Economic Society, Warwick.



ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

2003 Organiser, CRENoS Conference on Tourism and Sustainable Economic
Development, Chia, September
1999 Local organiser, Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dymanics,
Alghero, June.
1997 Local organiser, CEPR Workshop on Growth, Transfers of Technology,
Capital and Skills, Alghero, September (CEPR organisers: R. Baldwin and
G. Giovannetti).
1997 Organiser, CRENoS Conference on Comparative Economic Growth.
National and Regional Patterns, Cagliari, June
1995 Organiser, CRENoS Conference on Economic Integration and Regional
Patterns, S. Margherita di Pula, June

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Pearl
Feb 18 2014, 06:36 PM
I'm glad that Ugo Cappellacci did not win! :)
Me too, except for one only reason, Pigliaru is one of those who said to be skeptical about the institution of a Free Tax Area in Sardinia.
Edited by Algueres, Feb 20 2014, 03:18 PM.
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The composition of the new Sardinian Parliament

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36 council members from center-left parties and 24 from the right wing.
For the first time in the history independentist parties were elected (though only 3 independentist activists will join the parliament), while the autonomists are 7.
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Juanne
Feb 20 2014, 04:26 PM
The composition of the new Sardinian Parliament

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36 council members from center-left parties and 24 from the right wing.
For the first time in the history independentist parties were elected (though only 3 independentist activists will join the parliament), while the autonomists are 7.
The absurd thing is that the most voted independentist party, called Progres, won't be represented in the parliament because ran inside a coalition that didn't reach the 10% of preferences. 10% was the minimum threshold to have the possibility to enter in the parliament.
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caesium
Feb 20 2014, 10:41 PM
The absurd thing is that the most voted independentist party, called Progres, won't be represented in the parliament because ran inside a coalition that didn't reach the 10% of preferences. 10% was the minimum threshold to have the possibility to enter in the parliament.
Infact, by many people the regional election law was considered liberticide. I hope will be abolished soon.
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Juanne
Feb 20 2014, 10:50 PM
Infact, by many people the regional election law was considered liberticide. I hope will be abolished soon.
You certainly can not give the faults to the electoral law only. The coalition "Sardegna Possibile" which are criticizing the law denied to the main independentist party to run with them, and they could join the parliament if they did not divide their coalition in three distinct movements. They thinked to gain at least the 20% of preferences ....their expectations were deeply wrong.
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