Caragliu Andrea Antonio

Andrea Caragliu is Associate Professor in Regional and Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano. He acts as Head of the Ph.D. programme in Architecture, Buolt Environment, and Construction Engineering. He is also Editor in Chief of the RSAI's policy journal, Regional Science Policy & Practice. Previously, he worked for two terms as the RSAI's Executive Director, and for six more years he acted as book review editor of Papers in Regional Science. He has been visiting student at the Spatial Economics Department of the Free University of Amsterdam, 2008-2009. He has published on various international refereed Journals such as Economic Geography, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Economic Geography, Papers in Regional Science, and Journal of Urban Technology.

Career

PhD in Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, 2015.

PhD in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2010 (The dissertation has been awarded the Merit Prize of the EU Committee of the Regions Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation and Diploma d’Onore AISRe for the best doctoral dissertation in Regional Science “Giorgio Leonardi” 2010).

Master’s degree in Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, 2005.

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, 2003.

Research

Regional economics, Urban economics, Economic geography, Regional Science, Real Estate.

Selected Publications

Caragliu, A., Del Bo, C. and Nijkamp, P. (2023). ““Smart Cities in Europe” Revisited: A Meta-Analysis of Smart City Economic Impacts”, Journal of Urban Technology, 30 (4): 51–69.

Capello, R., Caragliu, A., Gerritse, M. (2022). ”Continuous vs. discrete urban ranks: explaining the evolution in the Italian urban hierarchy over five decades”, Economic Geography, 98 (5): 438-463.

Caragliu, A., and Del Bo, C. (2022). “Smart Cities and urban inequality”, Regional Studies, 56 (7): 1097-1112.

Capello, R. and Caragliu, A. (2021). “Regional growth and disparities in a post-COVID Europe: A new normality scenario”, Journal of Regional Science, 61 (4): 710–727.

Caragliu, A. (2021). “Energy efficiency-enhancing policies and firm performance: Evidence from the paper and glass industries in Italy”, Energy Policy, 156, 112415.

Camagni, R., Capello R, and Caragliu, A. (2019). “Measuring the impact of legal and administrative international barriers on regional growth”, Regional Science Policy and Practice, 11 (2): 345–366.

Caragliu, A., and Del Bo, C. (2019). “Smart innovative cities: The impact of Smart City policies on urban innovation”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142: 373–383.

Capello, R., Caragliu, A., and Fratesi, U. (2016) “Measuring border effects in European cross-border regions”, Regional Studies, 52 (7): 986–996.

Caragliu A., De Dominicis, L., and de Groot, H. (2016). “Both Marshall and Jacobs were right!”, Economic Geography, 92 (1): 87–111.

Caragliu, A., Del Bo, C., and Nijkamp, P. (2011) “Smart cities in Europe”, Journal of Urban Technology, 18 (2): 65-82.

Grants, awards and Honours

January 2025: Referee of the year award (Industry & Innovation)

June 2024: Elected Fellow of the Regional Science Association International

April 2024: Top-cited article for Caragliu, A. (2022). ”Better together: Untapped potentials in Central Europe” (Papers in Regional Science)

February 2023: Top-cited article for Capello, R. and Caragliu, A. (2021). “Regional growth and disparities in a post-COVID Europe: A new normality scenario” (Journal of Regional Science)

January 2022: Referee of the year award (Industry & Innovation)

October 2017: Referee of the year award (Regional Studies)

December 2010: Merit prize of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union for the doctoral thesis competition “Local and regional authorities in the European Union”.

June 2010: Diploma of honor (runner-up) in the Giorgio Leonardi Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in the academic year 2009-2010 (Italian Association of Regional Science - AISRe).

Community Service

Jan. 1, 2025 - Today. Politecnico di Milano. Head, PhD programme in Architecture, Built Environment, and Construction Engineering.
November 20, 2024– Today. Editor-in-Chief, Regional Science, Policy & Practice

January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2024. Executive Director, Regional Science Association International

January 2022-December 2024. Politecnico di Milano. Deputy Head, Ph.D. programme in Architecture, Built Environment, and Construction Engineering

January 2022-December 2026ERSA-EOC member

January 2018-December 2023. Politecnico di Milano. Deputy Head, Master’s Degree in Management of Built Environment

Member and Auditor (2013-2016) of the Italian Association of Regional Science (AISRe); member of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), American Economic Association (AEA); Urban Economics Association (UEA), American Association of Geographers (AAG), European Economic Association (EEA).