Giorgio Brosio

Giorgio Brosio is Professor Emeritus, University of Torino, Italy. He has been professor at the Universities of Torino, Bari and Geneva. He has served as President of the Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica (Italian Public Economics Association) from 2009 to 2012 and as President of the European Public Choice Society (April 1992 - April l993) and member of the Board of the Italian Association of Regional Economics (AISRE).
His research interests focus on public choice, fiscal federalism, and natural resources. He has worked extensively in developing and emerging countries as a consultant for international institutions (IMF, World Bank, IADB, ADFB, the United Nations and the EU) on public sector reform and development, with emphasis on taxation, natural resources and decentralization issues. He has long record of publications, including books and articles on academic journals.

Selected pubblications

Articles in journals

• Brosio, G. (2024). A Regional System under Tight-Knit Elite Rule: The Last Attempt to Introduce Decentralization in Early Italy. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 54(2), 339-360.
• Piperno, S., & Brosio, G. (2023). Ferdinando di Fenizio e la scienza delle finanze. Pensiero economico italiano: XXXI, 2, 2023, 165-183.
• Brosio, G., & Zanola, R. (2023). The Origin of Electoral Absenteeism in Early Italy: New Evidence to Explain North–South Diverging Trends. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 54(2), 239-260.
• Brosio, G., Pelosi, R., & Zanola, R. (2022). Short-term exit from pandemic restrictions: did European countries' speed converge?. The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 19(2), 145-159.
• Biondo, A. E., Brosio, G., Pluchino, A., & Zanola, R. (2022). Authoritarianism vs. democracy: Simulating responses to disease outbreaks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 594, 126991.
• Brosio, G. (2020). The regional and personal impact of the fiscal policies of a limited franchise government: Italy immediately after unification. Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 35(1), 37-61.
• Brosio, G. (2019). Looking at the Origins of the North-South Divide. The Regional Allocation of the National Budget Just after Italian Unification. Rivista di storia economica, 35(2), 211-245.
• Brosio, G. (2018). Coercion and equity with centralization of government: how the unification of Italy impacted the southern regions. Public Choice, 177(3), 235-264.

Working Papers

• Brosio, G., & Piperno, S. (2021). Alla ricerca del residuo fiscale: una proposta di chiarificazione metodologica. Società italiana di economia pubblica.
• Brosio, G. (2019). Decentralized provision of education: Methodological suggestions for analysis, with application to Mexico.
• Ahmad, E., Brosio, G., & Jiménez, J. P. (2019). Options for retooling property taxation in Latin America.
• Brosio, G., Jiménez, J. P., & Ruelas, I. (2018). Desigualdades territoriales, transferencias de igualación y reparto asimétrico de recursos naturales no renovables en América Latina.
• Brosio, G., Jiménez, J. P., & Ruelas, I. (2016). Looking at the nexus between personal income distribution and regional GDP inequality in decentralized systems. documento presentado en las Quintas Jornadas Iberoamericanas de Financiación Local, Santiago de Compostela.

Books

• Ahmad, E., & Brosio, G. (2022). Beneficial property taxation for emerging market countries: addressing climate change and post-pandemic recovery. Springer Nature.
• Brosio, G. (2021). Economia Pubblica Moderna. Giappichelli - Torino.
• Ahmad, E., Brosio, G., Bordignon, M. (2016). Multi-level Finance and the Euro Crisis: Causes and Effects. Cheltenham Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Ahmad, E., & Brosio, G. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of multilevel finance. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Chapters in book

• Ahmad, E., & Brosio, G. (2018). Can Lessons from Equalisation Transfers in Industrial Countries be Applied to Reforms in Emerging-Market Countries?. In Comparing Fiscal Federalism (pp. 169-189). Brill Nijhoff.
• Brosio, G. (2017). Cases for and against transparency/obfuscation in intergovernmental relations. In The Economics of Transparency in Politics (pp. 173-187). Routledge.
• Brosio, G., Piperno, S., & Pandiello, J. S. (2016). A tale of two cities: the Olympics in Barcelona and Turin. In Multi-level Finance and the Euro Crisis (pp. 249-274). Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Ahmad, E., Bordignon, M., & Brosio, G. (2016). Introduction: How multi-level finance has contributed to the crisis and is affected by it. In Multi-level Finance and the Euro Crisis (pp. 1-18). Edward Elgar Publishing.