FRANCESCA CALAMUNCI
I)Personal information

-Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/francescacalamunci/home
-Personal E-mail: francycalamunci@live.it
-Current occupation: Post-Doc Research Fellow at the University of Catania

II) Education within the Ph.D.

-Dissertation title: Essays on the economics of organized crime: Evidence from Italy
-Tutor (and eventual co-tutor): Prof. Francesco Drago
-Visiting student at: Fulbright-Falcone-NIAF Scholars 2017-2018 John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, USA.
-Participation in courses/summer or winter school:

• February 25 to 1 March 2019. ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques. Course: Python Programming for Social Sciences. The University of Bamberg.
• January 13-24, 2019. Winter School on Transnational Organized Crime organized by the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) in cooperation with the Education for Justice initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
• July 9-14, 2018. Summer School Advanced Panel Econometrics: Theory and Applications organized by the Italian Econometric Association (SIdE). Lecturers: Maria Elena Bontempi, Roberto Golinelli, and Irene Mammi.

-Area (whether Economic, Business or Statistics): Economic- Political Economy

III) Other information
-Research interests: Economics of Crime, Applied Micro-economics, Policy Evaluation
-Grants, Awards: 

• Michael Vinciguerra Estate Grant, Institute of International Education (IIE), financing Research at John Jay College (CUNY), New York, October 2017-April 2018, Academic Year 2017-2018.
• Fulbright-Falcone-NIAF Fellowship, US-Italy Fulbright Commission, financing Research at John Jay College (CUNY), New York, October 2017-April 2018, Academic Year 2017-2018.

-Publications:
Calamunci, F. What Happens in Criminal Firms after Godfather Management Removal? Judicial Administrationand Firms Performance.  (accepted at Small Business Economics Journal)

Calamunci, F., Drago, F. The Economic Impact of Organized Crime Infiltration in the Legal Economy: Evidence from the Judicial Administration of Organized Crime Firms. Ital Econ J 6, 275–297 (2020). Special Issue on the Economics of Crime. Guest Editor: Paolo Pinotti. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40797-020-00128-x
 
Calamunci, Francesca. Essays on the Economics of Organized Crime: Evidence from Italy. [PhD Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/11570/3147642 ]

Calamunci, Francesca. Contribution: Camorra. In P. Reichel (ed.). Global Crime; An Encyclopedia of Cyber Theft, Drug Smuggling, Human Trafficking, Weapon Sales, and Other Illicit International Activities (2019). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

-Presentation of papers at conferences or congress

2020:

•  “What Happens in Criminal Firms after Godfather Management Removal? Judicial Administration and Firms Performance.” Applied Young Economist Webinar (Europe/US East Coast time zones), November 4, 2020. 
• “What Happens in Criminal Firms after Godfather Management Removal? Judicial Administration and Firms Performance.” Economics of Crime online Seminars, June 25, 2020. 
• “Organized Firm Behavior and Market Dynamics”. Graduate Center Virtual Micro Brown Bag, June 12, 2020. 
• “What Happens in Criminal Firms after Godfather Management Removal? Judicial Administration and Firms Performance.” Graduate Center Virtual Micro Brown Bag, May 8, 2020. 

2018:

• “Organized Crime Infiltration in Legal Businesses.” Guest Speaker at CJ 3403: Organized Crime (Spring 2018), Temple University. April 2, 2018.
• “Analysis of Organized Crime: Evidence from Firm-level data.” Presented at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) 55nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA. February 13-17, 2018.