Faculty teaching Economics and Finance

Andrea Terzi is a graduate of Bocconi University (1979) and received a Ph. D. in Economics from Rutgers University (1986). He has taught at Rutgers University, the Institute for International Studies in Florence, Università Cattolica in Milan, and has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He has published several articles in both American and European scholarly journals, as well as co-authored volumes, in the areas of money, financial market behavior, monetary integration in Europe, and foreign exchange markets. He is the author of a recently published book on Money (in Italian). Current areas of interest include monetary theory, central banking, and financial markets volatility. Associated with Franklin since 1986, he has developed the Economics program and contributed to the design of the two majors in the Economics and Finance Department. He currently teaches Macroeconomics (both introductory and intermediate), Money and Banking, and International Banking and Finance.



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Wasiq N. Khan received his Ph.D. in Economics from the American University in Washington, DC, his M.A. in International Political Economy from the University of Texas at Austin, and his B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia. Dr. Khan has served as a consultant at the World Bank, working on HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation efforts in Africa and on youth unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa. He has presented economic research on the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the dynamics of global labor migration, and the efficacy of foreign food aid at the American Economics Association, the Eastern Economics Association, and the Southwestern Economics Association. He is currently on Board of Trustees of Partners for Development, an NGO which provides public health and agricultural development assistance to underserved communities in remote areas of Bosnia, Cambodia, and Nigeria. 

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Giuseppe Colangelo is a graduate of Luiss, Rome, and has a M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Birkbeck College. He has taught Economics, Microeconomics and Industrial Organization at Università Cattolica, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and Università dell’Insubria. He has published several articles in the above mentioned fields on international professional journals and is the author of a monograph in Italian. Current research interests include: vertical relations between firms, price discrimination, indirect taxation on oligopolistic firms, competition policy. At Franklin, he teaches Industrial Organization in the European Union (Fall term) and Development Economics (Spring term).

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Luca Colombo is a graduate of Università Cattolica, Milano, and holds an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Bielefeld, Germany and an Assistant Professor at Catholic University. Member of various research teams and recipient of several fellowships and research grants, he has taught at Università Cattolica, Università Statale di Milano and LIUC in Castellanza at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. His research interests include agency theory, technology adoption models, macroeconomic dynamics, political economy and corporate finance.

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Donato De Rosa is Ph.D. Candidate, PSE (Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques), Paris
M.Litt., Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland
Laurea di Dottore, Economics, Bocconi University, Italy

Research interests include institutions and economic performance, particularly with respect to firm behavior in the context of macroeconomic transition and industrial development. Publications include articles on European Union labor and firm competition policy as well as financial survival strategies for Russian and Ukrainian industry. Has taught at Université Paris IV (Sorbonne), the ISEP Graduate School of Engineering (Paris) and Trinity College, University of Dublin. He is a consultant within the Structural Policy Analysis Division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris.

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Giorgio Ricchiuti is a graduate of Bocconi University and received a Ph.D. in Development Economics from University of Florence, Italy. He is an instructor of Introductory Economics and of Political Economy (Globalization and Conflicts) at University of Florence; and is a teaching assistant, New York University in Florence. 

His research interests focus on the macroeconomics in developing countries. He was a recipient (2001-2004) of a University of Florence research fellowship for studies on currency crises and exchange rate systems in developing countries. From October 2004 to August 2005 he was a
consultant for the Innocenti Research Centre - UNICEF in Florence. He is currently studying the effects of foreign direct investment in both developed and developing countries.

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