Born in  Sarezzo (Brescia),  Italy, December 17, 1949; Italian nationality; married

Office addresses:  Main : Department of  Political Economy, Faculty of Economics, Piazza S.Francesco, 7;  53100 Siena (Italy);

Day phone : (+39) 0577232 632 ; (+39) 0577 232 780;fax (+39) 0577 232 661.

CS in Economia dell’Ambiente e del Turismo Sostenibile,  EdATS, Università di Siena at Grosseto, via Ginori, 41 -  56100 Grosseto. Phone (+39) 0564441219; fax(+39)  0564441229

Home address : via Tiberio Gazzei, 23, I - 53030,   Radicondoli (Siena), ITALY.

Voice phone and fax: (+39) 0577790 905.

Education

-         1978: Fellow in the course on "Systems analysis: Theory, Methods, and Applications" at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste.

-         1975-7:  M. Phil. (Economics), London School of Economics and Political Science.

-         1975-78: junior research position at the Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Banking, under the direction of Prof. E. Zaghini (with permission to study abroad).

-         1974:  research scholarship from Fondazione Einaudi, Torino.

-         Graduated in March 1974, summa cum Laude. Dissertation on: "Equilibrium  and growth in von Neumann model"

-         1971-74:  student in the course in Scienze Economiche at the Faculty of Economics and Banking, University of  Siena.

-         1968-9: Student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Naples.

Has taught abroad at the following institutions of higher education

Catedra de Macrodinamica, IMERL e Facolta’ di Economia e Scienze Sociali, Unversidad de la Republica, Montevideo (estate-autunno 1999); Cuba, Istituto de Economia y Planificacion, Gennaio 1999, dove ha tenuto un corso per funzionari dei ministeri di economia sulla teoria della crescita e dello sviluppo; Catédra Extraordinaria de Macrodinamica, Division de Postgrado, Facultad de Economia, UNAM (Oct. 97- Jan 98); CNRS Maitre de Recherches at IDEFI, Sophia Antipolis, Nice (Febbraio-Maggio 1998); The Institute of Visual Mathematics, Santa Cruz, CA (01/97); Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, Montevideo (11/96- 12/96); Department of Economics, Postgraduate Studies, UNAM, C. De Mexico (09/96 -10/96) e summer 1993; Foreing Visiting Scholar, Institute for Social and Economic Studies, University of Osaka, e Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan (09/95-03/96); Slovak Summer School of Macroeconomics, Bratislava, Settembre 1993-1997 e 1999; U.C.L.A., Winter e Spring Quarters 1993, Summer Quarter 1990, Winter and Spring Quarters 1983; Professeur Associé, Universitè de Nice and LATAPSES, Sophia-Antipolis, Autunno 1992; The Instituet für Hoehere Studien, Vienna, Summer Quarter 1985; 1993: Center for Computable Economics, U.C.L.A., Stati Uniti; 1991: CNRS-LATAPSES, Sophia-Antipolis, Nizza, Francia; 1985: International Center for Economics and Related Disciplines, presso la L.S.E., Londra; 1984: Department of Economics, Fakultät für WirtschaftsWissenschaften, Università di  Bielefeld, Germania; 1983: Department of Economics, U.C.L.A., Stati Uniti; 1982: Fakultät für WirtschaftsWissenschaften, University of Bielefeld, Germania; 1982: European University Institute, Firenze, Italia.

Fellowships, awards: 1991: NATO-C.N.R. Senior Fellowship, C.N.R. Sophia-Antipolis; 1983 (Luglio-Agosto): NATO-C.N.R. Senior Fellowship, U.C.L.A; 1983 (Gennaio-Giugno): Fulbright Senior Fellowship, U.C.L.A; 1974: Borsa di Studio C.N.R. presso l'istituto di Economia, Facoltà di S.E.B.

Visiting Scholarships: 1992: Department of Economics, University of Varsavia; 1991: Department of Economics, Charles University of Prague; 1981 e 1990: Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Technische Universität, Vienna; 1980: Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, U.K. (con un grant C.N.R.); 1979: Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

-         Chair of Economics, Dept. of Political Economy, University of Siena  (1990-), and

-     Lecturer in Economics of Tourism

Pro-Rector,Università di Siena, Grosseto Campus

-         President of the Scientific Committee of the Polo Universitario  Grossetano, University of Siena at Grosseto

-         President of the Laurea Course in Economia dell’Ambiente e del Turismo Sostenibile,  EdATS,     Università di Siena at Grosseto.

-         Member of the Board of International Relations, University of Siena

-         Rectoral delegate for Siena University’s activities in America Latina, with the task of organizing the University’s Centre for the Cooperation with America Latina.

-     Director of the Osservatorio per il Turismo Sostenibile, UNISI

Positions recently held abroad

-         Lecturer at the Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and at the Universidad  Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niteori, Fall 2003 

-         Lecturer and coordinator of the post graduate course in the Economics of Sustainable Tourism, UNISI with Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, 2002-2003

-         Visiting Professor, Centre for Research on the Japanese Economy, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, October 2001-January 2002

-         Research Fellow, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada,  Rio de Janeiro, January- July 2001

-         Visiting professor of Macrodynamics, Departamento de Economia y IMERL; Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo (UY), Fall 1999,

-      Has taught a course on Growth Theories for the Ministerio de Economia y Planificacion,   delivered at the Centro de Estudios " Juan F. Noyola", La Habana, January-February 1999, to government officers.

-         Catédra Extraordinaria de Macrodinamica, Division de Postgrado, Facultad de Economia, UNAM (Oct. 97- Jan 98).

-         CNRS Maitre de Recherche at CNRS-IDEFI, Sophia Antipolis, Nice (February to May, 1998).

-    Visiting Foreign Scholar, Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Osaka    University, Japan  (1996)

Also:

- Keynote speaker, II Congresso Latinoamericano di Econometria ed Economia Matematica, Bahia Blanca (AR), Giugno 1999.

- Invited speaker , VIII Colloquio Mexicano de Economia Matematica y Econometria, Guadalajara, ottobre 1998.

- Invited speaker, Conferencia de la Societad Mexicana de Matematica, Hermosillo, Ottobre 1998.

- Keynote speaker, IX Jornadas de Economia, Banco Central de Uruguay, nov. 1996, Conferenza annuale del MERCOSUR

Other (current and recent) Professional Activities

-     Principal Researcher, Project for the Piano Socio-Economico Pluriennale del Parco Naturale della Maremma, Grosseto

-  Principal Researcher, Project for the Piano Socio-Economico Pluriennale per le       Aree Protette della Provincia di Siena 

-         Coordinator of the National Research Group on New Tools of dynamic analysis,     financed by the Italian Ministry of the University and Scientific Research

-         Advisor to the Board of Tourism, Province of Siena, and Regional Government of Tuscany

-         World Bank, Romania task force (1999)

-     Group coordinator of the IDEE project: Industrial dynamics and employment in Europe, sponsored by the EU Commission within the action: Targeted Socio-Economic Research, IV Framework Program for Science and Technology. The project is carried on by a network with participants: CNRS-IDEFI at Nice (France) and the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research of TU-Wien.

-         Coordinator of the EUCompEcs Research Network on the project "The economic analysis of structural and institutional change as an integrated dynamic process. A Computable Economics Approach", with participant laboratories in Pisa, Milan, Sophia-Antipolis, Magdeburg, Manchester and Valencia. The Network was funded by the European Commission within the Human Capital and Mobility Programme, and was extended to Economics Institutes in Prague, Budapest, and Warsaw as one of the measures of the PHARE Programme.

-         Coordinator of LACompEcs, a EU DG I network set up under the programme Alfa, with partners the Universities of Siena, Nice, Manchester, Galicia, UNAM and Montevideo.

-         Member of the Organizing Board of the International School of Economic Research, CNR-Dept. of Political Economy, Siena.

-         Member of the Doctoral Programme in Economics, University of Siena

-         Coordinator of two programmes of the Italian Ministry for the University for cooperation with America Latina in the field of the promotion of dual Master and Doctoral degrees, countries involved: Uruguay, Brasil, Mexico

-         Director of the Inter-Departmental Center for Research on Central-Eastern European Countries and Russia, at the University of Siena.

-         Member of the American Economic Association, the International Input-Output Society and the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.

Previous positions

-         1987-89: Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Pisa.

-         1983-87: Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Political Economy, University of Siena.

-         1979-83: Lecturer of Mathematical Economics, Faculty of Economics and Banking, University of Siena.

-         1983-87: Lecturer of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Banking, University of Siena.

-         1978-83: Assistant Professor of Economics, same institution.

Research areas

-         Growth and business cycles: theories and evidence.

-         Comparative Economic Performance and Industrial Structures (Japan, Central-Eastern Europe, Western Europe, expanding to Latin American countries).

-         Computable economics (in particular, production theory and dynamical systems).

-         Input-output analysis, both theoretical and applied viewpoints.

-         Systems theory, in particular dynamical systems and biological systems.

-         Mathematical methods and their applications.

-         Mathematical methodology in economics.

Other ongoing research projects

-         Coordinator of the project on “New tools for the qualitative analysis of dynamic economic data” (MURST-Siena University research grant)

-         Coordinator of a multidisciplinary project on the Computable Approach to Economics (Italian Ministry for Science and Universities).

-         "Parallel, Computable dynamical models of an Economy: a framework for the dynamical analysis of structural change (with an application to Italian data)", with Ralph Abraham (University of California at Santa Cruz).

Recent research projects

-         Coordinator of the joint research project on "Structural change in Japan, Italy and U.K.: a long run perspective", with the International Center for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, financed with a grant by the National Research Councils of Italy and U.K.

-         Coordinator of the Siena-based  research group in a multi-University network of research units on "Technological change and its economic impact", centrally coordinated by M. Amendola of the University of Rome, and funded with a grant by the Italian Ministry of Education.

-         Coordinator of a research group of the economic development in Italy and Austria, in collaboration with Prof. H. Firsch, chairman  of the Department of Economics, Technische Universität, Vienna, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and the Central Bank of Austria.

A sample of  conference papers

-     Romania’s erratic transition: a tale of two countries, presented at the conference: Innovation and Growth: New Challenges for the Regions" held at IDEFI,  Sophia-Antipolis (Nice), January 2002

-   Recent advances in macrodynamics, S. Luiz de Obispo (AR) Latin  American Meeting on Economic Theory,  August 2000.

-     A new approach to the dynamical analysis of economies: computational experiments and empirical evidence, Hermosillo, invited paper to Annual Conference of the Mexican Mathematical Society, and to the Conference of the Society for Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, Guadalajara, October, 1998.

-         Investment-productivity dynamics in the EU and some OECD countries (with B. Boehm), International Summer School, Siena 1998.

-         Convergence among countries, Keynote speaker: IX Jornadas de Economia, Banco Central de Uruguay, nov. 1996.

-         Structural Adjustments in a set of connected economies, (with B. Boehm, T.U. Wien), Warsaw EUCompEcs conference, September 1996.

- Macrodynamics, past and future. Reflections of a perplex, LATAPSES, Sophia Antipolis, May 1996.

-         Experimenting with a cellular model of the Italian economy, (with R. Abraham, UC SC), the annual conference of the Society of Computing in Economics and Finance, Austin, May 1995.

-         Out of Equilibrium Analysis: Modeling and Simulation, LATAPSES (Sophia Antipolis), May 1994.

-         The Periphery and the Center in an European perspective, at the Istituto por Desarrollo de la Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, September 1993.

-         Central Bank of Uruguay at Montevideo, September 1993.

-         Workshops on: Structural Change and Adjustment to Exogenous and Domestic Shocks, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna December 1990, and Siena December 1991.

-         Workshop on: Gravitation towards Long Period Positions, Siena, April 1990.

-         Value and Capital: fifty years later, Conference organized by the International Economic Association, Bologna, 2-4 September 1988.

-         Spring workshops of the research project : A long run prospective of structural change and industrial organization. A comparative study of Italy, Japan, and the U.K., held in Siena (1987-89 for the joint research group Siena-STICERD, L.S.E., London).

-         History of Economics Society Annual Conference, Harvard University (USA), June 1987

Language knowledge

(rating over 1 to 6)

-     Italian: native language

-         English:  6 spoken, reading and 6 written.

-         French : 6 reading, 5 writing and 5 speaking

-         Spanish: 4 reading, 4 writing and speaking.

-         Easy language learning

A choice of publications (as of March 2004)

Books

Turismo, sviluppo economico e sostenibilita’: teoria e pratica, in collaboration with S. Bimonte, Edizioni dell’Universita’ di Siena, Collana EDATS, 2003

Cycles, Growth and Structural Change, ISER 1998, Routledge (2001).

Mexico beyond the NAFTA. Perspectives for the European debate (a cura di Punzo e Martin Puchet Anyul) Routledge (i2001)

European economies in transition, (con O. Fabel and F. Farina, a cura di ), MacMillan (2000).

Economic Performance. A Look at Austria and Italy, (con B. Boehm (a cura di ), 1994,  Physica Verlag, Berlin and Vienna.

The Dynamics of  a Capitalist Economy. A Multi-Sectoral Approach, (con R. M. Goodwin), Polity Press, Cambridge (U.K.), e Westview, Boulding, CO, 1987.

Essays on Formalism and Empiricism in Economics. Origins, Theory, Methods, Institute of Economics series, Siena, 1984.

Algebraic Theory of the Production System, Institute of Economics series, Siena, 1984.

Some recent journal articles

(titles in blue available at:

http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/docenti/punzo.html )

"Economic Applications of a Generalized Perron-Frobenius Problem", Economic Notes, (1980).

"Multisector Models and Joint Production", (with K. Velupillai), chapter in F.  van der Ploek (ed.), Mathematical Models in Economics, in the series: Handbook of Applicable Mathematics, John Wiley and Sons, London (1984).

"Accounting Approach and Multisector Modeling", Institut for Advanced Studies, Vienna (1984).

"Issues in Multi-sector Modeling", Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (1985).

"Von  Neumann and K. Menger's Mathematical Colloquium", in M. Dore, S. Chakravarthy and R.M. Goodwin (eds), John von Neumann and Modern Economics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, (1989).

"Capitalistic and Acapitalistic Production", in J. Eatwel and P. Newman (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, , Macmillan, London, (1987) (re-printed by J. Eatwel and P. Newman (eds): Capital Theory, Macmillan, London (1990)).

"Harrodian macrodynamics in generalized coordinates", in G. Ricci and K. Velupillai (eds), Growth, Cycles and Multisectoral Economics in the Goodwin tradition, Springer Verlag, (1988).

"Generalized diagonal coordinates in dynamical analysis and capital and distribution theory", in Nonlinear and Multisectoral Macrodynamics, edited by K. Velupillai, MacMillan, London, (1990).

"J.M. Grandmont's  Money, expectations and economic dynamics. A discussion", in L. McKenzie and S. Zamagni (eds), Value and  Capital. Fifty Years Later,  IEA Conference Papers, vol. n. 94, MacMillan, London, (1991); (reprinted in Donald A. Walker (ed.), Equilibrium, vol. III, Edward Elgar , 2000).

"David Hilbert's Mathematical Formalism and the Neoclassical Revolution", The Journal of the History of Economics Society, 1991.

"Detecting structural change. Austria and Italy as case studies", (with B. Boehm), in O. Clauser, P. Kalmbach, G. Pegoretti, M.L. Segnana (eds): Technological Innovation, Competitiveness and Structural Change, Dunkel Publishing Co., Berlin, (1992).

"Competition and cooperation in the Japanese experience. Papers from the Fourth Italy-Japan Workshop", (with M. Di Matteo), Rivista di Studi Economici e Commerciali, Special Issue, (1993).

"The European Experience of Science and Technology Parks", (edited with J.L. Gaffard), Special Issue, Note Economiche, no. 2, (1993).

"Karl Menger's contribution to the social sciences", in K. Menger, Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathamtical Colloquium, edited by L.Golland, B. McGuinness, and A. Sklar, Vienna Circle Collection, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, (1994).

"Dynamics of industrial sectors and structural change in the Austrian and Italian economies, 1970-89", (with B. Boehm), in Boehm and Punzo (eds), (1994).

"Some Complex Dynamics for a Multisectoral Economy", Revue Economique, 46 (6), 1995.

L’Economie hors de l’equilibre, Special issue, edited with J.L. Gaffard, Revue Economique, 46(6), (1995).

"Coordinating the Not-Too-Rational: Leijonhufvud’s Macroeconomic Methodologies", (with K. Velupillai), in D. Vaz and K. Velupillai, Inflation, Institutions and Information, MacMillan , London (1996).

"Industrial Dynamics and Structural Change: A Framework for the Analysis of Sectoral Dynamics in a Set of Countries", Institute for Socio-Economic Research, Osaka University, (1996).

 "The Economy as a Structurally Complex, Evolving Dynamical System. Goodwin’s Contours", (with K. Velupillai), Economic Notes, (1997).

"Modelos de Goodwin", Economia Informa, Facultad de Econonomia/UNAM; C. De Mexico, (1997).

"Structural cycles and convergence during processes of economic integration", published in Spanish as "Cyclos Estructurales y Convergencia durante los procesos de integracion economica", Revista de Economia, Banco Central del Uruguay, Segunda Epoca, IV, 2, pp. 3-57 (1997).

English edition (with Michio Morishima) and Preface to Marco Fanno., La Teoria dell'offerta  congiunta, Macmillan (1998).

"Goodwin’s models", in Kurz and Salvadori (eds), The Elgar Companion to Classical Economics, E. Elgar, U.K. (1998).

"Clower on Axiomatics", in P. Howitt, De Antoni and Leijonhufvud (eds), Money, Markets and Method: Essays in Honour of Robert W. Clower,  E. Elgar, U.K. (1998).

"Neo-Austrian Processes", (with M. Amendola and J.L. Gaffard), Indian Journal of Applied Economics, April-June 1999, v. 8, iss. 2, pp. 277-93; reprinted in K. Puttaswamaiah ed. John Hicks, New  Brunswick and London, Transaction Publishers, 2001

"The Evolution of the Distribution Sector in the Three Continents: Movements of Distribution Margins and its Evolutionary Explanation", (with K.G. Nishimura), Economic Systems, no.1, 1999.

"The distribution structure in three continents: an evolutionary analysis of Italy, Japan and the United States", (with K. G. Nishimura), in Comparing the Japanese and Italian economies, edited by R. Boltho, A. Vercelli and H. Yoshikawa,  Macmillan, (2000).

"Dynamic structural changes in selected European countries, with a comparison with Japan and the US", (with B. Boehm), in Fabel, Farina, Punzo (eds), European economies in transition, Macmillan (2000).

"Productivity-investment fluctuations and structural change", (with B. Boehm), in L. F. Punzo, (ed.) Cycles, Growth and Structural Change, Routledge., London (2001).

“Structural divergence and dynamics of dualism. Lessons from Mexico before and after NAFTA (and some from Italy)”, (with M. Puchet Anyul), in Puchet and Punzo (eds), Mexico beyond NAFTA,  Routledge, London ( 2001)

“La table del insumo-producto desde una perspectiva de dinamica structural. En homenaje a Wassily Leontief”, (co-author Martìn Puchet Anyul), Investigacion Economica, no.238, vol. LXI, Octubre.diciembre 2001

“The look of stagnation”, CRJE working paper, Tokyo University, 2002

New Tools of analysis for economic dynamics, special issue, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (2003)

-         Bimonte, S. e Punzo, L.F., (2003), Environmental Policy Options in the Multi-regimes Framework, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica, N. 389, Università degli Studi di Siena (forthcoming in: Leskow, J., Puchet, M. e Punzo, L.F., (eds) New Tools for Qualitative Analysis of Dynamic Economies, Sprinter Verlag;

-         Bimonte, S. e Punzo, L.F., (2003), Turismo e sviluppo sostenibile locale nei sistemi microinsulari, EdATS WP Series, Facoltà di Economia, Università di Siena a Grosseto;

Some complex dynamics for a multisectoral Economy - in: "L'Economie hors de l'equilibre", Special issue, edited with J.L. Gaffard, Revue Economique, 46(6), (1995).

The Distribution Structure in Three Continents: An Evolutionary Analysis of Italy, Japan and United States - Kiyohiko G.Nishimura, University of Tokyo and Lionello F. Punzo, University of Siena

Productivity-Investment Fluctuations and Structural Change - Bernhard Böhm, University of Technology, Vienna and Lionello F. Punzo, Università di Siena

Coding Economic Dynamics to Represent Regime Dynamics (preliminary draft) - Gabriel Brida, University of Siena;Martin Puchet Anyul, UNAM Mexico;Lionello F. Punzo, University of Siena - Maggio 1999

Neo Austrian Process(es) - M. Amendola (University of Roma), J.L Gaffard (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis),L.F. Punzo (University of Siena) - From The Indian Journal of Applied Economics.Special Issue in Memory of Jhon Hicks, Vol.8, No.2, April-June 1999.

Dynamical Structural changes in selected European countries, with a comparison with Japan and US - Bernhard Bohem (TU Vienna) and Lionello F.Punzo (University of Siena) - To appear in O.Fabel, F.Farina and L.F.Punzo (eds). European Economies in Transition. Structural changes in search of a new growth path, MacMillan, forthcoming.

From : Marco Fanno, A Contribution to the Theory of Supply at Joint Cost, English Edition by M. Morishima and L. F. Punzo, Classics in the History and Development of Economics, General Editor: Michio Morishima, Macmillan Press, 1999)

Clower on Axiomatics - Lionello F.Punzo, University of Siena (From: P. Howitt, E. de Antoni and A. Leijonhufvud (eds), Money, Markets and Method. Essays in honour of Robert W. Clower, E.Elgar, 1999)