Eleonora  Cutrini is Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Macerata, where she teaches Small Business Economics at the undergraduate level and Contract Theory and International Economics and Finance at the postgraduate level.

She holds a Msc, and a PhD in Economics from Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy. She has been a Marie Curie Fellow a the Sussex European Institute, UK and a visiting research scholar at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany.

Her main area of research is on regional and urban economics, spatial economics. Current research interests include the European debt crisis and related issues of international economics and finance, business cycle synchronicity and the decoupling between developed and developing countries.

She serves as referee for Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Economic Geography, the World Economy, International Journal of Finance & Economics, Regional Studies, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Papers in Regional Science, Geographical Research, Economia e Politica Industriale, Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali.

She is a member of the Italian Economic Association (SIE), Regional Science Association International (RSAI), the Italian Association of Regional Studies (AISRe), the Italian Society of Industrial Economics and Policy (SIEPI), the Associazione degli Economisti di Lingua Neolatina (AENL) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems (AISSEC).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles

Using entropy measures to disentangle regional from national localization patterns, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2009

Specialization and Concentration from a Twofold Geographical Perspective: Evidence from Europe, Regional Studies, 2010

Moving Eastwards while Remaining Embedded: the Case of the Marche Footwear District, Italy, European Planning Studies, 2011

I distretti tradizionali di fronte alla globalizzazione: il caso dell'industria calzaturiera marchigiana (with Micucci G. e P. Montanaro), L'Industria, 2013

Spatial fragmentation of industries by functions" (with Bade F.-J., Bode E.,), The Annals of Regional Science, 2015

External public debt, trade linkages and contagion during the Eurozone crisis (with G. Galeazzi), The World Economy, 2017

Distance and beyond: What drives financial flows to emerging economies (with E. Cavallaro), Economic Modelling, 2018

Book chapters

“Accumulazione di debito e contagio nella crisi della Zona Euro”, in M. E. Bartoloni, A. Caligiuri, B. Ubertazzi (eds) L'Unione Europea e la riforma del governo economico della Zona Euro, 2013

“The Resilience of Emerging Economies During the Great Recession: Lessons Learnt from Recent Data” (with G. Galeazzi), in Handbook of Research on Financial and Banking Crisis Prediction through Early Warning Systems, Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics Book Series, 2015

“International Integration and Uneven Development: An Enquiry into the Spatial Distribution of Foreign Firms in China” (with Hongbo Cai), in F. Spigarelli, L. Curran, A. Arteconi (eds), China and Europe's Partnership for a More Sustainable World, 2016