Massimo Florio is Professor Emeritus of Public Economics at the University of Milan and former Head of the Economics Department. His expertise includes privatization, cost-benefit analysis of public investments, EU regional and industrial policy, and the economics of science. For over 20 years, he coordinated the European Commission’s Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Projects. He is the author of Investing in Science (MIT Press, 2019) and Privatisation of Knowledge (Routledge, 2023). He has led studies for institutions such as the EC, EIB, OECD, CERN, and the Italian Space Agency. He is also the founder and Honorary President of CSIL.

March 5, 2017 | Events | By MG

Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis: 2017 Conference

Improving the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis. 9th Annual Conference and Meeting, Washington DC

I joined the 2017 Annual Conference organised by the Society for Benefit- Cost Analysis and focused on the issue of improving the theory and practice of benefit cost-analysis.
My presentation focused on the ‘Human Capital Benefits of Big Science: Evidence from Early Career Researchers at CERN’.
For more details on the background of this presentation:

Florio, M. with Camporesi, T., Catalano, G., and Giffoni, F., “LHC Premium” for Early Career Researchers? Perceptions from within, available here.
Florio, M. with Camporesi, T., Catalano, G., and Giffoni, F. 2017. ‘Experiential learning in high energy physics: a survey of students at the LHC.’ European Journal of Physics, 38, 2.

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Massimo Florio

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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis: 2017 Conference

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