Leonzio Rizzo

My research interests lie in the areas of public economics, political economics and EU accounting system. In particular, I am currently involved in a number of theoretical and applied projects, investigating, among other things, the role of lobbying on the efficiency consequences of an equalization system, the role of the size of localities in infrastructure externalities in the impact of fiscal policy changes like the switch from transfers to taxes and vice-versa, the role of localities' networking in saving money when providing local public goods, the impact of decentralizing decision making on the fuel subsidies for developing countries. I am also involved in a project trying to match local and national budget accounting rules.

I am a Research Fellow of IEB. From September 2015 I am member of the Executive Board of The Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP).

Research interests:

Fiscal Federalism, Political Economy

Education

• Laurea Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (1987 — 1992)
• Dottorato di ricerca Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (1993 — 1996)

Companies

• Full professor of Public Economics Università degli Studi di Ferrara (2017)
• Associate Researcher IEB Universitat de Barcelona (2010)
• Associate Professor of Public Economics Università degli Studi di Ferrara (2010 — 2017)
• Assistant Professor of Public Economics Università degli Studi di Ferrara (2002 — 2010)
• Visiting fellow The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (1999 — 2002)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (1998 — 1999)
• Scholarship Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (1997 — 1997)

Book

• Flat Tax. Parti uguali tra disuguali? (with Massimo Baldini), Farsi un'idea, Il Mulino, 1-136, ISBN: 8815283269