Staff profile

Mauro joined Durham Business School in August 2018. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomic Theory at the Department of Economics and Related Studies of the University of York. He is also a Junior Research Affiliate at the Institut d’Analisi Economica, Barcelona GSE.

In 2007, he earned a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (Italy), and then held a research fellowship in macroeconomics at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Later he was Professor Assistant at the Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

In 2008, Mauro’s doctorate thesis was awarded with the Graduate Prize for the Best PhD Thesis from the Italian Association of Applied Mathematics to Economics and Social Sciences.

Personal Homepage

• Macroeconomic Theory
• Endogenous Growth and Endogenous Fluctuations
• Habit Formation
• Behavioural Economics (Reference Dependent Preferences)

Journal Article

• Bambi, M., Ghilli, D., Gozzi, F., & Leocata, M. (2024). Habits and demand changes after COVID-19. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 110, Article 102933. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2023.102933
• Bambi, M., & Eugeni, S. (2021). Nominal exchange rate determination and dynamics in an OLG framework. Economic Theory, 72, 93-132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-020-01271-3
• Bambi, M., & Venditti, A. (2021). Time‐varying consumption tax, productive government spending, and aggregate instability. International Journal of Economic Theory, 17(2), 190-215. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijet.12216
• Bambi, M., & Gozzi, F. (2020). Internal habits formation and optimality. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 91, 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2020.09.008
• Augeraud-Veron, E., Bambi, M., & Gozzi, F. (2017). Solving Internal Habit Formation Models Through Dynamic Programming in Infinite Dimension. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 173(2), 584-611. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-017-1073-8
• Bambi, M., Di Girolami, C., Federico, S., & Gozzi, F. (2017). Generically distributed investments on flexible projects and endogenous growth. Economic Theory, 63(2), 521-558. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-015-0946-z
• Bambi, M. (2015). Time-to-build and the capital structure. Economics Letters, 137, 222-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.11.012
• Augeraud-Veron, E., & Bambi, M. (2015). Endogenous growth with addictive habits. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 56, 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2014.11.002
• Bambi, M., & Gori, F. (2014). Unifying Time-to-build theory. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 18(08), 1713-1725. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1365100513000102
• Bambi, M., Gozzi, F., & Licandro, O. (2014). Endogenous growth and wave-like business fluctuations. Journal of Economic Theory, 154, 68-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2014.08.004
• Bambi, M., Fabbri, G., & Gozzi, F. (2012). Optimal policy and consumption smoothing effects in the time-to-build AK model. Economic Theory, 50(3), 635-669. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-010-0577-3
• Bambi, M. (2008). Endogenous growth and time-to-build: The AK case. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 32(4), 1015-1040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2007.04.002

Working Paper

• Bambi, M., & Gozzi, F. (2019). Internal Habit Formation and Optimality
• Bambi, M., & Eugeni, S. (2018). Exchange rates, sunspots and cycles