Barbara Martini, PhD, is a professor of applied economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and Associate researcher at the Research Centre for Macroeconomic and Regional Forecasting, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, also serving as the delegate of the rector for equal opportunities and inclusion. She is member of the Gender Committee of the Italian Society of Economics.
Her primary research interests encompass gender, gender in regional science, resilience, and spatial econometrics. Dr. Martini teaches Statistical Methods in Economics, Economic of Innovation and Gender & Inclusion, along with courses such as International Economics (3563) and Macroeconomic Principles (1101) Microeconomics Principles (1102) at Temple University Rome Campus. She also teaches Spatial Econometrics in the Economics Ph.D. program at Sapienza University.
With a cum laude bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Dr. Martini spent a year at Groningen University, focusing on Advanced Econometrics and Operational Research. She holds a PhD in Economics from Tor Vergata University and is an active member of AISRe, Ersa, and Sie. She is the author of numerous publications in referred journals at national and international level.
Degrees
Ph. D. University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
Post graduate Erasmus program in Econometrics and Dynamic Optimization, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
B.A. in Economics and Commerce, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
Courses Taught
ECON 1101 - Macroeconomic Principles
ECON 1102 - Microeconomic Principles
ECON 3563/IB 3563 - International Trade
Publications
Martini B., (2020), Resilience and Economic Structure. Are they related?, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (2020) Vol.54, pp.62-91, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.03.006
Giannini M, Martini B., (2020) Regional Wage and Productivity in Italy: A spatio-temporal analysis. Spatial Economic Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2020.1769169
Martini B., (2020) La resilienza delle regioni italiane. Una analisi con panel spazio-temporali Scienze Regionali. Vol. 20 (1) pp.35-54. Doi: 10.14650/95927
Martini B. (2020) Una stima della perdita di valore aggiunto provinciale dovuta al Covid-19: un’analisi spazio-temporale. Eyesreg, Vol. 10 n.3. ISSN 2239-3110
Martini B. (2020) Resilience, resistance and recoverability, regional economic structure and human capital in Italy. Are they related? Applied Econometrics and International Development. AEID Vol 20 (1) pg.47-62. ISSN 1578-4487
Martini B., Platania M., (2019) Analysing resilience in Local Labour Market Areas: A spatial analysis. The case of Italy. Applied Economics Quarterly Vol 65 (3), pp.187-206.
Martini B. Platania M., (2019) Spatio-temporal analysis of the resilience in Italy during the great recession Romanian Journal of Regional Science Vol. 13 (1) pg.1-14. ISSN 18423-8520.
European Projects
C4C Connect 4 Children: Collaborative Network for European Clinical Trials for Children)
H2020
OLTRE: Oltre l’orizzonte – Contro-narrazioni dai margini al centro
Commissione Europea sul Fondo per la Sicurezza Interna
INDRIX: Inclusive Disaster Resilience Index
Referred Journals Fascia A Anvur
Fiorelli C. Giannini M. Martini B., (2022) Private and Public Risk Sharing across Italian Regions Journal of Macroeconomics Vol 74 Dec 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2022.103470 IF 1.556
Giannini M. Martini B. Fiorelli C., (2022) How does firms' broadband adoption affect regional TFP in Italy. Economia Politica Accepted; Forthcoming
Giannini M. Fiorelli C. Martini B., (2022) Aging in the labour market: A spatial VAR approach. Spatial Economic Analysis Published on line: 19 Feb. 2022. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17421772.2022.2036361
Martini B., (2020), Resilience and Economic Structure. Are they related?. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (2020) Vol.54, pp.62-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.03.006
Giannini M, Martini B., (2020) Regional Wage and Productivity in Italy: A spatio-temporal analysis. Spatial Economic Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2020.1769169
Martini B., (2016) The Data Revolution. Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences. Regional Studies, Vol. 50, 2, pp.553-54. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2015.1107987
Referred Journals (Scopus)
Martini B, Platania M (2022) Are the regions with more gender equality the more resilient ones? An analysis of the Italian regions’ Regional Science Inquiry Journal vol. ΧIV (2) December 2022 Forthcoming
Martini B. (2020) Resilience, resistance and recoverability, regional economic structure and human capital in Italy. Are they related? Applied Econometrics and International Development. AEID Vol 20 (1) pg.47-62. ISSN 1578-4487
Martini B., (2020) La resilienza delle regioni italiane. Una analisi con panel spazio-temporali Scienze Regionali. Vol. 20 (1) pp.35-54. Doi: 10.14650/95927
Martini B., Platania M., (2019) Analysing resilience in Local Labour Market Areas: A spatial analysis. The case of Italy. Applied Economics Quarterly Vol 65 (3), pp.187-206. ISSN 1865-5122 3110
Referred Journals
Martini B. Platania M., (2022) Are the regions with more gender equality the more resilient ones? An analysis for the Italian regions Economies RR
Giannini M. Martini B. Fiorelli C., (2022) Are Related and Unrelated Variety a Suitable Measures at Analyzing Industrial Sectoral Composition? A Critical Review. International Journal of Business and Social Science, Vol. 13 n.1 (March 2022) doi:10.30845/ijbss.v13n1p1
Martini B., (2022) Does Gender Matter for Related and Unrelated Variety? A Sectoral, Spatio-temporal Analysis for the Italian Provinces Romanian Journal of Regional Science. Forthcoming June 2022.
Martini B., (2021) Genere e specializzazione produttiva. Esiste una relazione? Una analisi spazio-temporale per le province italiane. ANNALI MEMOTEF 2021-ONLINE FIRST ISSN 2385-0825
Martini B. (2020) Una stima della perdita di valore aggiunto provinciale dovuta al Covid-19: un’analisi spazio-temporale. Eyesreg, Vol. 10 n.3. ISSN 2239-3110
Martini B. Platania M., (2019) Spatio-temporal analysis of the resilience in Italy during the great recession Romanian Journal of Regional Science Vol. 13 (1) pg.1-14. ISSN 18423-8520
Book Chapters
Martini B, Platania M., (2021) The resilience of tourist destination. Seismic risk perception by tourism operators in Volcano Etna (Italy) In Tourism and Earthquakes Edited by: C. Michael Hall, Girish Prayag
Martini B., (2018) Resilience, reorientation and variety. An analysis of Italian provinces after 2007 economic shock in Resilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics, T., Baycan and H., Pinto eds. Edward Elgar 2018. ISBN 9781786432186 (Scopus)