Robert J. Franzese, Jr.

Name: Robert J. Franzese, Jr.

Title(s):

• Associate Professor
• Faculty Associate

Contact Information: 734.936.1850 , franzese@umich.edu

Website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese/

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CES-EUC

Department Affiliation(s):

• Political Science
• Center for Political Studies

Education Background: Ph.D., Government, Harvard Univ., 1996; A.M., Economics, Harvard Univ., 1995; A.M., Government, Harvard Univ., 1992; B.A., Economics, Government, & Intern. Relations, Cornell, 1990

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• European Union Studies

Related Countries:

• Italy
• Germany

Research/Teaching Specialization: Comparative & international political economy, comparative & international politics, developed democracies, quantitative methodology & formal methods

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Comparative Politics of Industrial Democracies, Le Leghe del Nord in Comparative Perspective, Comparative Government

Publications:

• Institutional Conflicts & Complementarities: Monetary Policy & Wage Bargaining Institutions in EMU. 2004. (Edited Book)
• Credibly Conservative Monetary Policy and Labor-/Goods-Market Organization: A Review with Implication for ECB-Led Monetary Policy in Europe. 1999. (Book Chapter)
• Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies. 2002. (Authored Book)
• Institutional Advantage: The Scope for Divergence within European Economic Integration. 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Strategic Interaction among EU Governments in Active-Labor-Market Policymaking: Subsidiarity and Policy Coordination under the European Employment Strategy. 2006. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Multiple Hands on the Wheel: Empirically Modeling Partial Delegation & Shared Control of Monetary Policy in the Open & Institutionalized Economy. 2003. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Empirical Strategies for Various Manifestations of Multilevel Data. 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)