Adjunct Professor, Economics
Professor of Economics at Università Cattaneo – LIUC
BA in Economics (DES), Bocconi Universiy, Milan
M.Phil. in Economics, University of Oxford, Oxford
Email: rhelg@fus.edu
His area of research is in applied international economics. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on the determinants of comparative advantages, on the dynamics of countries trade patterns, on less developed countries terms of trade, on euro and optimal currency areas, on exchange rate dynamics, on the labour market implications of globalization, on the quantification of the economic effects of liberalization scenarios in the WTO Doha Round, on the economic effects of trade liberalization between EU and Mediterranean countries, on the EU-US trade potential in the context of TTIP, on global value chains in Asia, on the economic impact of deepness in trade agreements
He is Senior Associate Research Fellow at ISPI, Milan and on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Comparative Economics. He has been consultant for the EU Commission, for the OECD, for the European Investment Bank and for the Italian Office of the Prime Minister.
In the last few years, he has taught courses in International Economics at IESEG School of Management Lille/Paris, at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, at Franklin Switzerland Lugano, at USI and at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Lugano, at Bocconi University and SDA, at ISPI, at Bicocca University, Milan, at Shenzhen International Business School, Shenzhen, at Johns Hopkins University–SAIS Bologna and at S.P. Jain Institute Management & Research, Mumbai.
Publications
How deep is the impact of deep trade agreements? An empirical analysis on a large sample, (with E. Borghi and L.Tajoli), Rivista Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, vol. LXXVIII n.3 July-September 2024.
Carlo Cattaneo e le tendenze dell’economia internazionale, in L. Ballestra e D. Pozzi (eds.), Carlo Cattaneo ieri e oggi, Guerini next, 2019 (ISBN 978-88-6896-303-3).
Asia as a new global engine: foreign trade and regional cooperation, (with A.Amighini, E.Borghi, L.Tajoli), In-Depth-Analysis, European Parliament, DG for External Policies, Directorate B, Policy Department, November 2015 - ISBN: 978-92-823-8932-4
Trade effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, LIUC Papers n.279, 2014
TTIP: challenges and opportunities in the area of textiles and labeling, In-Depth-Analysis, European Parliament, DG for Internal Policies, IP/A/IMCO/2014-14, May 2015.
Patterns of international fragmentation of production and implications for the labour markets, (with L. Tajoli), North American Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 16, pp. 233-254, 2005.
Globalizzazione (with L.De Benedictis), Rivista di Politica Economica, March-April, 2002.
Abruzzo and Sicilia: catching up and lagging behind (with G.Peri and G.Viesti), EIB Papers vol. 5, no.1, 2000.
On the dynamics of trade patterns (with P.Epifani and A.Brasili), De Economist, 148, 2, June 2000.
Da Seattle verso il nulla. Riflessioni sui giochi antiglobalizzazione, Equilibri, IV, 1, April 2000.
East and South-East Asian Economies and the EU: Pattern of Specialisation and Intra-Industry Trade, in S.Chirathivat e C.Molteni (eds.), ASEAN-EU economic relations: the impact of the Asian crisis on the European Economy and the long-term potential, AESS, Nomos Publ, Baden-Baden, 1999.
How much (a)symmetry in Europe? Evidence from industrial sectors, (with P.Manasse, T.Monacelli, R.Rovelli), European Economic Review, 39, 1995.
A note on the stationarity of the primary commodities relative price index, Economics Letters, 36, 1991.