Giacomo Corneo

Giacomo Corneo (born November 22, 1963) is an Italian economist and professor. he holds the chair of public economics at the Free University of Berlin.

Biography Corneo earned a degree at Bocconi University, received a Diplôme d'études approfondies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and completed two Ph.D. programs: one in political economy at the University of Pavia, and one from the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. After a period of work at the Ministry of Finance in Paris, he got his habilitation at the University of Bonn in 1997. In early 1998 he became full professor of economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Osnabrück University, where he also served as dean of the faculty. Since 2004, Corneo holds the chair of public economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Free University of Berlin.

He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Center for Economic Studies, and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Research Corneo's major research fields are public economics, labor economics, comparative economics, industrial organization, and growth theory.

In collaboration with Guido Neidhöfer, Corneo studied how governmental redistribution affects migration patterns. For their work, they were awarded with the prize for the best scientific performance at the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung in 2020/2021.

In recent work, Corneo analyzed how public ownership of capital through a "progressive sovereign wealth fund" and the distribution of a social dividend may be able to "achieve a more egalitarian distribution of income in advanced economies without suffering a loss of efficiency".

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