Dr Francesca Medda

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Director
UCL Quantitative and Applied Spatial Economic Reseach Laboratory (QASER)

Francesca Romana Medda is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Applied Economics at the University College London (UCL). From 2000 to 2005 she has taught mathematical economics and regional economics at the London School of Economics. From 2010 she is the Director of the UCL QASER (Quantitative and Applied Spatial Economics Research) Laboratory. Her research focuses on finance and incentive performance, efficiency evaluation and contractual agreements in economic infrastructure. Her work has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals. She has been an advisor to the World Bank, The European Investment Bank, Transport for London, VEOLIA and UITP. Since 2007 she has been a member of the Executive Board of Directors of one of the major public transport companies in Italy.

Research Summary

Infrastructure Investment
Financial Portfolio Optimization
Risk Analysis
Efficiency and Performance
Public and Private Partnerships
Project Appraisal

Research outputs

Priority financial optimal programming of rehabilitation and maintenance of the London strategic road 2008 Cai C,Medda F,Basic D
Risk management: the failure of Metronet 2008 Medda F
Short Sea Shipping as an alternative to land transport 2008 Trujillo L,Medda F
The need for new sources of revenue in the public transport sector: the land value capture mechanism 2008 Medda F,Sequeira J
Transport accessibility as merit good 2008 Medda F
Growth of container seaborne traffic in the Mediterranean Basin: outlook and policy implications for port development 2007 Medda F,Carbonaro G
Public-Private Partnerships in transportation: some insights from the European experience 2007 Medda F,Carbonaro G
Land value mechanisms in transport PPPs: investment in urban mass transit systems 2007 Medda F
Inefficiencies in Public-Private Partnership transport provision 2007 Medda F,Pels E
How country experience, foreign private investors and multilateral lenders affect the success of Public-Private Partnerships in transport 2007 Galilea P,Medda F
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Research activities

ENFOLDing
ENFOLDing: Explaining Modelling and Forecasting Global Dynamics
EU-FP7: Network of Excellence for Advanced Road Cooperative traffic management in the Information Society (NEARCTIS)
SCALE
STAREBEI: Land Value Finance as a Tool to Diminish Municipality Bond Risk
STAREBEI:Transport Infrastructure Financing Through Land Value Capture: Application to Estonia
Sandpit I: Airport Environmental Investment Toolkit
Sandpit II- Airport Environmental Investment Toolkit
Transforming the Engineering of Cities to Deliver Societal and Planetary Wellbeing
Transport Infrastructure Financing Through Land Value Capture : Application to the Warsaw Underground System