Maurizio Lisciandra is currently an assistant professor in Economics at the Political Science Department of the University of Messina. He graduated with honour in Economics (1998) at the Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" where he was awarded a scholarship for outstanding merit. In 1997 he attended economics courses at Brandeis University (Ma-USA). He obtained an M.Phil. in Economics (2000) followed by a Ph.D. in Economics (2005) from Cambridge University (Trinity College, UK). He worked as a researcher at LEST-CNRS in Aix-en-Provence (France), at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and at the International Labour Organisation (ILO-Geneva-Switzeland), where he was appointed as expert in 2005. In recent years he worked as a consultant for the Region of Sicily, the Italian Ministry of the Interior, the Fondazione Chinnici and as lecturer/researcher at the Universities of Palermo and Bologna. His research interests are economics of crime, crime costing, law and economics, and psychological economics.

Publications

Chapters in books
(2010) "Camorra ed estorsioni: una stima del costo per le imprese", in I Costi dell'Illegalità -  Camorra ed Estorsioni in Campania, a cura di Giacomo Di Gennaro e Antonio La Spina, 161-184, Bologna: Il Mulino.
(2010) (with Mario Centorrino) "La teoria economica della corruzione", I quaderni europei, Centro di Documentazione europea - Università di Catania - Online Working Paper, 5-15.
(2008) (with Adam Asmundo) "Un tentativo di stima del costo delle estorsioni sulle imprese a livello regionale: Il caso Sicilia", in I costi dell'Illegalità - Mafia ed Estorsioni in Sicilia, edited by Antonio La Spina, 113-136, Bologna: Il Mulino.

Articles in scientific journals
(2008) "A Comparative Analysis of the Incentive Systems under Taylorism and Fordism", Storia del Pensiero Economico, Anno V, n. 2, 2008/2, 65-89.
(2008) "The Impact of Technological Change on Incentive Provision: the Contract System in the Emerging American Iron and Steel Industry", Studi Economici, n. 95, 2008/2, 5-36.
(2008) (with Adam Asmundo) "The Cost of Protection Racket in Sicily", Global Crime, Vol. 9, No. 3, August 2008, 221–240.
(2008) "Rise and fall of the contract system in the American iron and steel industry", Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica, Matematica e Sociologia "V. Pareto", n. 27, Università di Messina.
(2007) "Agency Theory and Work Incentives", Studi Economici, n. 91, 2007/1, 117-146.

Discussion papers
(2007) "The Role of Reciprocating Behaviour in Contract Choice", Discussion Papers del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche dell'Università di Pisa, n. 65.