Formal Name: Massimiliano Tani Bertuol Preferred Name: Max Personal Title: Dr Position: Senior Lecturer Organisational Unit: Department of Economics Qualifications: MSc (Econ), PhD (ANU), Grd.Dip (Teach and Learning, UNSW) Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8499 Fax: (+61-2) 9850-6069 Email: mtani@efs.mq.edu.au Location: E4A 442

Profile

Before moving to Australia in 1999, Max lived in London and worked for Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase. He was also an occasional research assistant at the Centre for Economics Performance of the London School of Economics. He began his academic career in Australia at the ANU, and spent five years with ADFA in Canberra before moving to Macquarie University as a Senior Lecturer in 2007.

He has extensive experience dealing with large databases, and has published over 10 articles dealing with research interests in the areas of migration, knowledge labour flows, education and student learning. His research has been awarded competitive grants in projects as a lead or sole researcher from the Australian Research Council (ARC - both Linkage and Discovery programs), the Department of Immigration Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), the Australia-Harvard Club, the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia - French Embassy (ASSA-FE), the Australian Universities Europe Network (AUEN), UNSW Faculty Research Grants (FRG), and UNSW Special Research Grants (SRG). Dr Tani Bertuol has served on two selection panels of DEST’s Endeavour awards.

He is a member of the permanent committee of Italian scientists abroad, Research Fellow of the Institute for the Future of Labour (Bonn), Research Fellow in the School of Communication at the University of Canberra, a fellow of the Marie Curie Association (European Union), an ex-Chevening Scholar, a member of the Italian Association of Financial Analysts, area leader of the Alumni of Bocconi University, and a founding member of the Association for Research between Italy and Australasia - Canberra.

Grants

2006: Faculty Research Grant - Cross-cultural learning experiences, expectations and outcomes of Asian students at UNSW: analysis of a large sample survey (with M. Scoufis, W. Armour, S. Kossew, B. Ely, T. Ho, Z. Vrcely, P. Vines, N. Roberts)

2005-07: Australian Research Council (LINKAGE GRANT. Industry partner: Department of Immigration, Multicultural, and Indigenous Affairs) - International exchanges of knowledge, temporary skilled labour movements, and Australia’s economic growth (with S. Dowrick and C. Trussler). Lead researcher.

2005-07: Australian Research Council (DISCOVERY GRANT) – Economic consequences for Australia of global demographic change (with R. Tyers, S.E. Khoo, T. Hatton, R. Duncan, S. Qui)

2005: Faculty Research Grant - Cross-cultural learning experiences, expectations and outcomes of Asian students at UNSW: evidence from a large sample survey (with M. Scoufis, W. Armour, S. Kossew, B. Ely, T. Ho, Z. Vrcely, P. Vines, N. Roberts)

2004: Faculty Research Grant - Understanding tacit knowledge in the context of innovation and competition: a pilot survey (with G. Upstill, G. Lea)

2004: Australian Social Sciences Academy – FRENCH EMBASSY - Modelling Complex Labour Interactions in a Knowledge-Based Economy (with G. Pariente)

Publications

Journal Articles

Tani, M. (2007). “Short-term skilled labour movements and economic growth”, International Migration (forthcoming).

Tani, M. (2006). “The economic relevance of international business visits”, Agenda, 13(4).

Sassetti, P. and Tani, M. (2006). “Systematic sectoral rotation as a tool for dynamic assetallocation”, Journal of Wealth Management, 8(4), 59-70.

Tani, M. (2005). “On the motivations of business travel: evidence from an Australian survey”, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 14(4), 419-440.

Hatton, T. and Tani, M. (2005) "International migration and inter-regional mobility in the UK: 1982-2000", The Economic Journal, 155(November), F342-F358.

Markowski, S. and Tani, M. (2005). "Defense expenditures, spill-ins and threats in Asia-Pacific", Defense and Security Analysis, 21(3), 243-265.

Tani, M. (2003a). “Do foreigners cushion native jobs? The case of European regions in the 1990s”, Labour 17(4), 459-487.

Tani, M. (2003b). “Have Europeans become more mobile?”. Economics Letters 80(1), 23-30.

Tani, M. (2003c). “International Business Travels and Australia’s Skills Endowment”, Agenda 10(3), 245-258.

Other refereed (*) and non-refereed articles and conference papers

Ho, T. and Tani, M, (2006). “Importing students or exporting higher education?”, TLHE Proceedings (forthcoming), National University of Singapore, December

Tani, M. (2006). “Head-content or headcount? Temporary labour movements as a source of growth”, Discussion Paper 1934,Bonn: IZA, January.

Tani, M. (2006). “When emigrations interact with elections” (in Italian), La Voce, www.lavoce.info

Tani, M. (2005). “Pension reforms: some reflections from (and on) Australia’s case”, Rivista AIAF on line, 3 (Ottobre)

Tani, M. (2004). “Labour Market Influences on University Education”, TLHE Proceedings, National University of Singapore, December, 127-131.

Tani, M. (2003a). “Brains in transit” (in Italian), La Voce, www.lavoce.info

Tani, M. (2003b). “Brain Drain and Immigration Policy” (in Italian), Bollettino della Comunita’ Scientifica in Australasia, 12, 81-83.

Tani, M. (2000). “Do Australians invest in Italy? Yes, more than 2.5 Bn dollars”, Review of Italian Financial Analysts, 40. (in Italian)

Hatton, T and M.Tani (2003). “Immigration and Inter-Regional Mobility in the UK, 1982-2000”, CEPR Discussion Paper 4061, London.