Dr Francesca Medda

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Biography

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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

Determinants of port competitiveness in the Mediterranean: a conceptual framework 2007 Medda F
A game theory approach for the allocation of risks in transport Public-Private Partnerships 2007 Medda F
Growth of container seaborne traffic in the Mediterranean Basin: outlook and policy implications for port development 2007 Medda F,Carbonaro G
Dynamic effects of transport costs on urban shape 2006 Medda F,Nijkamp P,Rietveld P
An overview of market structures and cost structures of the international shipping industry 2006 Liu Q,Medda F
Financial optimization for road maintenance: the theoretical model 2006 Cai C,Medda F
Risk renegotiation in transport concessions 2006 Medda F
Financial optimisation for road maintenance: Markovian decision processes 2005 Medda F
Risk renegotiation in transport PPP contracts 2005 Medda F
An analysis of the effects of urban land use on transportation 2005 Medda F,Boarnet MG
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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