Dr. Mario Jametti

Biography

Mario Jametti joined Università della Svizzera italiana as an Assistant Professor in Economics in 2008. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and became a Full Professor in 2016. He obtained his PhD from the University of Lausanne in 2004 and subsequently spent time as a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University. He later served as an Assistant Professor at York University in Canada. His main research interests encompass public finance, applied microeconomics, and applied econometrics, with a current focus on tax competition, natural disaster insurance, and private pensions. Dr. Jametti's work has been published in reputable journals including the Journal of Public Economics, Geneva Papers, the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, and the Review of Economics Statistics and Economic Journal. He possesses significant expertise in areas such as direct democracy, disaster insurance, industrial organization, public economics, and tax competition.

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