Introducing the FUS Faculty: Massimo Scotti

Adjunct Professor, Economics

Ph.D. in Economics, Bocconi University

Office: Kaletsch Campus, Faculty Office First Floor
Email: mscotti@fus.edu

2025-2026 Courses

ECN 303	Development Economics	FALL 2025
The course will introduce students to the evolution of theory and practice in economic development in three stages. First, models of economic growth and development including work by Harrod-Domar, Robert Solow, Arthur Lewis, and Michael Kremer are compared to provide students with a feeling for how economists have conceived of the development process. The class then proceeds to examine particular development issues such as population growth, stagnant agriculture, environmental degradation, illiteracy, gender disparities, and rapid urbanization to understand how these dynamics reinforce poverty and deprivation. In the final stage, students will read work by supporters as well as critics of international development assistance and use the knowledge and perspective they have gained thus far to independently evaluate efficacy of a specific development intervention.

Publications

Environmental Concern: A Culture of Trust (with T. Bassetti and F.Pavesi), Italian Journal of Economic, Demographic and Statistical Studies, Vol. LXXIX-2 April-June 2025.

Information and Expertise (with N.Argelli and F.Pavesi). In: Daphne R. Raban and Julia Włodarczyk (eds). The Elgar Companion to Information Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024

The Green Solow Model and the Threshold Effect of Human Capital on CO2 Emissions (with T. Bassetti and F. Pavesi), Metroeconomica, November 2023 Good Lies (with F. Pavesi), European Economic Review, Volume 141, January 2022

Experts, Conflicts of Interest, and Reputation for Ability (with Filippo Pavesi), International Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2014 , Pages 219–233

Why do Investors Invest in Active Funds to the Extent they Do? (with Ron Bird and Jack Gray), Rotman International Journal of Pension Management, Vol. 6 Iss. 2, Fall 2013

Delegated Portfolio Management with Career Concerns, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 84, December 2012, 829–839,

Insider Trading under Discreteness, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol. 14, No. 5 (2011) 757–771.