Nationality: Italy
Affiliation: VISTRA
Student Status: Other professional (non-academic)
Level of Education: Masters degree
Field of Study: Economics
Joined: November 9, 2016
Simone Esposito
LU
Member: Financial Stability, History of Economic Thought, Economic History, Cooperatives, Keynesian Economics, Political Economy of Europe, Latin America, Core, Commons, Inequality, Sustainability
Working groups
Research Interests
- Banking
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Central Banking
- Climate change
- Cooperatives
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Development Finance
- Ecological Economics
- Economic Development
- Economic Growth
- Economic History
- Emerging Markets
- Employment
- Endogenous Money
- Environment
- Ethics
- European Political Economy
- Financial Development
- Financial Regulation
- Financial Stability
- Foreign Aid
- History of Economic Thought
- Inequality
- Innovation
- Keynesian Economics
- Law and Finance
- Modern Monetary Theory
- Macroeconomics
- Marxian Economics
- Monetary Economics
- Monetary Policy
- Monetary circuit
- Political Economy
- Political Economy of Development
- Poverty
- Public Finance
- Public Policy
- Public Private Partnerships
- Risk Management
- Social Choice Theory
- Social Justice
- Social welfare
- Statistics
- Sustainability
- Theology and Economics
- Transparency
- Universal Basic Income
- Welfare Economics
About
I live in Luxembourg where I work as On-Boarding Manager for VISTRA, a global company providing financial services. Previously I covered positions as Director for Fundset, my own consulting company, Product Manager for Sanne Group, Business Development, Client Relationship Manager and Impact Investing Product Specialist for SELECTRA Management Company, which is part of FARAD Group, a certified B-Corporation. As Impact Investing Product Specialist I designed innovative responsible finance products. I was Member of the Board of Managers of European Impact Investing Platform SICAV-SIF, the first AIFMD solution dedicated to impact investing strategies promoted by third parties. Before moving to Brussels, where I was involved in research and public affairs activities for the European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks (FEBEA) and the International Organization of Social Tourism (ISTO), I covered business development and administrative positions in Italy. I graduated from the University of Bologna in Public Administration with a focus on Organization Sciences, in International Sciences and Diplomatic Affairs, and in Economics and Management with a focus on Social Economy. I also hold a Master's Degree of Banking, Funds and Markets from ICN Business School of Nancy and a Specialization Certificate of Project Management from University of California, Irvine.
About my research
I have been always passionate about Heterodox Economics. My field of research are Sustainable Finance, Impact Investing, Impact measurement and Development Finance. I did research on the performances of alternative and ethical banks compared to mainstream banks. I have also interest in Social Economics and Sustainable Finance History starting from Neo-Thomistic scholars like Liberato and Tapparelli. I am also interested in Keynesian Economics and Libertarian Theories, Monetary Economics with a Focus on Monethary Circuit Theory of Augusto Graziani and Modern Money Theory from Stephanie Kelton and Randall Wray. I wrote articles on the application of Monetary Circuit to Social Economics.