Tito Cordella is the Vera and Stefano Zamagni Chair in Development Economics at SAIS Europe. Tito started his professional career as an academic, teaching at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and at the University of Bologna. He then had a long stint at Bretton Woods Institutions where, alternating operational and research activities, he gained an extensive policy experience on a wide range of issues (monetary and fiscal policies, financial crises, banking, finance, growth, sovereign debt and debt restructuring, financial products, among others). At the IMF, Tito was a member of the Asian crisis team and then joined the Research Department where he focused on how to reform the international financial architecture. At the World Bank, he was the Brazil Chief Economist, the Deputy Chief Economist for LAC region, and an adviser to the World Bank Chief Economist. He is an honorary member of LACEA, a member of the LTI@UniTO Scientific Committee, and an advisory editor of the
Latin American Journal of Central Banking. Tito has published widely in banking, international finance/development, and trade. An Italian national, he holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (European Doctoral Program). For a full list of publications,
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- Preferred and Non-Preferred Creditors, with A. Powell, in Journal of International Economics 132 (September 2021)
- Sharing Oil Rents, and Political Violence, with H. Onder, in European Journal of Political Economy 63 (2020)
- Firms' and States' Responses to Laxer Environmental Standards, with S. Devarajan, in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 98 (2019)
- Asymmetric Punishment as an Instrument of Corruption Control, with K. Basu and K. Basu, in Journal of Public Economic Theory 18:6 (2016)
- Institutions, Governance and the Control of Corruption, with K. Basu (editors), International Economic Association Series, Palgrave MacMillan (2018)
- Motivations, Monitoring Technologies, and Pay for Performance, with A. Cordella, in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 133 (2017)
- Government Guarantees, Transparency, and Bank Risk Taking, with G. Dell'Ariccia and R. Marquez, in IMF Economic Review 66 (2018)