Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato

Born	June 16, 1968 (1968-06-16) (age 43)
Nationality	Italy  USA
Institution	University of Sussex (SPRU), The Open University
Field	Economics
Alma mater	New School for Social Research (Ph.D., 1997) Tufts University (B.A., 1990)

Mariana Mazzucato (born June 16, 1968), is an Italian economist and academic. She is RM Phillips Professor of Science and Technology at the University of Sussex (SPRU) and Visiting Professor in the Economics of Innovation at The Open University (UK). After receiving her PhD in 1999 from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, she became Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Denver.

She is currently the Coordinator of a 3 year European Commission FP7 project on Finance, Innovation and Growth (FINNOV, 2009–2012) and Economics Director of the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (Innogen). She is Deputy Director of the Open University's inter-faculty centre on Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD), which she directed from 2004-2009. From 2007-2009 she was Visiting Professor at the Bocconi University in Milan. She is also a Research Associate of the UK based DEMOS think tank.

Research

Professor Mazzucato's research uses theoretical, empirical and computational techniques in economics to study the feedback between technological change, firm performance and industry structure.^[1] She works within the Schumpeterian framework of Evolutionary economics, studying the origin and evolution of persistent differences between firms and how these differences vary across sectors and over the industry life-cycle.^[2][3][4] Her empirical studies have focused on the auto, PC, biotech and pharma industries. Her most recent work has analyzed the co-evolution of technological change and stock market bubbles. In this, she claims that stock price volatility tends to be highest, at the firm and industry level, when technological innovation is the most 'radical'.^[5][6][7]

Education

• 1997 PhD. Economics, New School for Social Research, NY.
• 1994 Masters in Economics, New School for Social Research, NY.
• 1990 Bachelor of Arts, History/Economics, Tufts University, Boston.

Publications

Books

• Mazzucato, M., Lowe, J., Shipman, A. and Trigg, A. (2010), Personal Investment: Financial Planning in an Uncertain World, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke UK, ISBN 978-0-230-24660-7, 448 pages.
• Mazzucato, M. and Dosi, G. (Eds, 2006), Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: Pharma-Biotech, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, ISBN 0-521-85822-4, 446 pages.
• Mazzucato, M. (Ed, 2002), Strategy for Business, A Reader, Sage Publications, London, 2002, ISBN 0-7619-7413-X, 378 pages.
• Mazzucato, M. (2000), Firm Size, Innovation and Market Structure: The Evolution of Market Concentration and Instability, Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, ISBN 1-84064-346-3, 138 pages.

Articles

• Demirel, P. and Mazzucato, M. (2011), “Does Market Selection Reward Innovators? R&D, patents, and growth in the US Pharmaceutical Industry”, forthcoming Industry and Innovation.
• Demirel, P. and Mazzucato, M. (2010), “The Evolution of Firm Growth Dynamics in the US Pharmaceutical Industry”, Regional Studies, Vol. 44 (8), pp.1053-1066.
• Mazzucato, M. and Tancioni, M. (2008), “Idiosyncratic Risk and Innovation: A Firm and Industry Level Analysis,” Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 17 (4), pp.779-811.
• Mazzucato, M (2006), “Innovation and Stock Prices,” Revue de L’Observatoire Francais de Conjonctures Economiques,” June 2006, Special Issue on Industrial Dynamics, Productivity and Growth.
• Mazzucato, M. and Tancioni, M. (2005), ”Indices that Capture Creative Destruction: Questions and Implications,” Revue d’Economie Industrielle. 110 (2nd tr.), pp.199-218.
• Mazzucato, M. (2003), “Risk, Variety and Volatility: Innovation, Growth and Stock Prices in Old and New Industries,” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 13 (5), pp.491-512.
• Geroski, P. and Mazzucato, M. (2002), “Learning and the Sources of Corporate Growth,” Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 11 (4), pp.623-644.
• Mazzucato, M. (2002), “The PC Industry: New Economy or Early Life-Cycle,” Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 5 (2), pp.318-345.
• Geroski, P. and Mazzucato, M. (2002), “Myopic Selection and the Learning Curve,” Metroeconomica, Vol. 53 (2), pp.181-199.
• Mazzucato, M. and Semmler, W. (2002), “The Determinants of Stock Price Volatility: An Industry Study,” Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 6 (2), pp.230-253.
• Geroski, P. and Mazzucato, M. (2002), “Modelling the Dynamics of Industry Populations,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 19 (7), pp.1003-1022.
• Mazzucato, M. (2000), “Firm Size, Innovation, and Market Share Instability: the Role of Negative Feedback and Idiosyncratic Events,” Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 3 (1-4), pp.417-431.
• Mazzucato, M. and Semmler, W. (1999), “Stock Market Volatility and Market Share Instability during the US Automobile Industry Life-Cycle,” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 9 (1), pp. 67-96.
• Mazzucato, M. (1998), “A Computational Model of Economies of Scale and Market Share Instability,” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 9 (1), pp.55-83.

References

1. ^ Mazzucato, M. (2000), Firm Size, Innovation and Market Structure: The Evolution of Market Concentration and Instability, Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, ISBN 1-84064-346-3, 138 pages.
2. ^ Demirel, P. and Mazzucato, M. (2010), The Evolution of Firm Growth Dynamics in the US Pharmaceutical Industry, Regional Studies, Volume 44 Issue 8, 1053
3. ^ Geroski, P. and Mazzucato, M. (2002), Learning and the Sources of Corporate Growth, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 11 (4): 623-644
4. ^ Geroski, P. and Mazzucato, M. (2002), Modelling the Dynamics of Industry Populations, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 19, 2001: pp. 1003-1022
5. ^ Mazzucato, M. and Tancioni, M. (2008), Idiosyncratic Risk and Innovation: A Firm and Industry Level Analysis, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 17 (4): 779-811
6. ^ Mazzucato, M. (2003), Risk, Variety and Volatility: Innovation, Growth and Stock Prices in Old and New Industries, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 13 (5): 491-512
7. ^ Mazzucato, M. (2002), The PC Industry: New Economy or Early Life-Cycle, Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 5: 318-345

External links

• www.marianamazzucato.com
• Mariana Mazzucato's Open University profile
• FINNOV project (Director)
• Innogen centre (Economics Director)
• DEMOS profile (Research Associate)
• IKD research centre (Deputy Director)
• DIME EC Network of Excellence

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