Profile

Massimiliano (Max) joined Macquarie University in 2007, from UNSW@ADFA and a PhD from the ANU. His research interests focus on the effects of mobility on knowledge, skilled migration, and education. Before moving to Australia in 1999, Max worked for a decade in investment banking (Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase).

Max is completing the analysis of data on international business travel to/from Australia collected through an ARC Linkage grant, and is jointly co-ordinating the Faculty's skilled labour group.

He is a member of the permanent committee of Italian scientists abroad, research associate at IZA (Bonn), fellow of the Marie Curie Association (European Union), and a founding member of the Association for Research between Italy and Australasia - Canberra.

Research Interests

Skilled migration, business visits, knowledge, education 

Committee Memberships

• IZA (Bonn)
• MCFA Australia

Publications - 2008

• "Short-term skilled labour movements and economic growth", International Migration, 46(3), 161-187.
• "Raising the in-class participation of Asian students through a writing tool", Higher Education Research and Development Studies, 27(4), 345-356.
• "International business visits and the technology frontier", IZA Discussion Paper 3417 (with S. Dowrick)
  
• "Labour market success and skill acquisition in the host country: effects on the duration and labour force status of Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians returning home from the European Union". MIREM Working Papers 1/2008 (with S. Mahuteau)

Publications - previous years

• "International business visits", Agenda, 13(4), 323-337.
• "Systematic sectoral rotation as a tool for dynamic asset allocation", Journal of Wealth Management, 8(4), 59-70. (with P. Sassetti)
• "On the motivations of business travel: evidence from an Australian survey", Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 14(4), 419-440.
• "International migration and inter-regional mobility in the UK: 1982-2000", The Economic Journal, 155(November), F342-F358 (with T. Hatton).
• "Do foreigners cushion native jobs? The case of European regions in the 1990s", Labour 17(4), 459-487.
• "Have Europeans become more mobile?", Economics Letters 80(1), 23-30.