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Italy - SNS node



Daniela Santucci co-ordinator of the ISS node, is a research associate, Behavioural neurosciences Section, Dept of Cellular Biology and Neurosciences. Major field of interest: animal models of cognitive and psychiatric disorder, effects of psychotropic drugs and growth factor on neurobehaioural development of rodents, with particular regard to the ontogeny of behaviour and social behaviour. She has been coordinator and principal investigator of two national research projects; is expert advisor for the Ministry of Health on the issue of Ethics and methodology of Animal experimentation in Neuroscience and Behavioural Research, and export evaluator for the EC (FP6).

D. Santucci, M. Puopolo, E. Alleva Neonatal behaviors associated with ultrasonic vocalizations in mice (mus musculus): A slow-motion analysis Dev. Psychobiol. 44, 37 (2004)

E. Alleva, D. Santucci Psychosocial vs. "physical" stress situations in rodents and humans: role of neurotrophins Physiol. Behav. 73, 313 (2001)

M. Puopolo, D. Santucci, F. Chiarotti, E. Alleva Behavioural effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on laboratory rodents: statistical methodologies and an application concerning developmental PCB exposureChemosphere 39, 1259 (1999)

E. Alleva, J. Rankin, D. Santucci Methodological analysis in behavioral toxicology: an ethotoxicological approach Toxicol. Ind. Health 14, 325 (1998)


Marcello de Cecco, LLB (Parma) MA (CANTAB), co-ordinator of the Scuola Normale node, is professor of monetary economics at the Scuola Normale di Pisa. He has held the Giannini Chair at UC Berkeley. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, of the Centre of International Affairs, and the Center for European Studies, Harvard University. He was a professorial fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, and a visiting professor at St. Antony s College Oxford, the London School of Economics, Edinburgh University, the University of Oslo, The Ecole National d'Administration, Paris. In 1994 he was a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, Washington, and guest lecturer at a joint Harvard-MIT graduate seminar. From 1997 to 1999 he was a member of the Italian Prime Minister's council of economic advisers. In 1999-2000 he was a fellow of the Wissenschaft Kolleg zu Berlin

Capital controls in the Bretton Woods and Post Bretton Woods International Financial System, in Jahrbuchs fur Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Akademie Verlag, 2002

M. de Cecco and J. Lorentzen, E. Elgar (Eds) Markets and authorities, Cheltenham, 2002

M. de Cecco The Role of the Private Sector in the New Financial Architecture Economies-et-Societes 33, 229 (1999)

M. de-Cecco The Lender of Last Resort Economic-Notes 1 (1999)

M. De-Cecco, F. Giavazzi The Use of SDRs in the Financing of Official Safety-Net Mechanisms I.M.F. Discussion paper Washington (1995)


Maria Augusta Miceli is senior researcher at the Dept. of Economics, University of Rome, La Sapienza. M.Phil. in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics (Cambridge Un. UK). Post doc teaching positions at Harvard University in "Contract Theory" and "Derivatives" and Econometrics. She has been teaching 1995 to now courses at graduate and undergraduate level of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Industrial Organisation and Theory of Finance. Her fields are Economic Theory (Micro and Macro) and Finance. Her preference is towards modelling "real world" issues. Has been consultant at Ministry of Treasury "Expert Council" (1998-2000) and at ISAE "Microsimulation model for Firms" (2001-2002).

M. A. Miceli and G. Susinno Ultrametricity in Hedge Fund Selection and Fund of Funds Diversification forthcoming Physica A (2004)

M. A. Miceli and G. Susinno Using Trees to grow Money RISK Magazine (2003)