Massimo Florio is Professor Emeritus of Public Economics at the University of Milan and former Head of the Economics Department. His expertise includes privatization, cost-benefit analysis of public investments, EU regional and industrial policy, and the economics of science. For over 20 years, he coordinated the European Commission’s Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Projects. He is the author of Investing in Science (MIT Press, 2019) and Privatisation of Knowledge (Routledge, 2023). He has led studies for institutions such as the EC, EIB, OECD, CERN, and the Italian Space Agency. He is also the founder and Honorary President of CSIL.

Publications

January 8, 2026 | Publications, Articles | By MG

Recent advances in policy and project evaluation: Cost–benefit analysis and beyond

Chiara F. Del Bo, Massimo Florio. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics – Editorial Introduction

December 1, 2025 | Publications, Articles | By MG

Cost-Benefit Analysis in Public Decision-Making: Insights from the 27 EU Member States

Raffaele Articolo, Massimo Florio and Valentina Morretta. The Singapore Economic Review.

March 20, 2025 | Publications, Books | By MG

Book review: The Privatisation of Knowledge

Anna Giunta's book review, Published: 17 February 2025 by Journal of Economics

February 19, 2024 | Publications, Articles | By MG

Accounting for the impact of space policies: The case of the Italian Space Agency

Massimo Florio, Paolo Castelnovo, Matteo Landoni et al., Space Policy

January 1, 2024 | Publications, Articles | By MG

Quasi-experiments to estimate the economic impact of research infrastructures

Massimo Florio, Paolo Castelnovo, CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation

June 15, 2023 | Publications, Books | By MG

The Privatisation of Knowledge

A New Policy Agenda for Health, Energy, and Data Governance. Published by Routledge.

January 4, 2023 | Publications, Articles | By MG

A quasi-experimental design to assess the innovative impact of public procurement

An application to the Italian space industry. Castelnovo, Clò, Florio, (2023). Technovation, 121, 102683.

December 16, 2021 | Publications, Working papers | By MG

Study for Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA), European Parliament

European pharmaceutical research and development: Could public infrastructure overcome market failures?

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Highlights

IN Publications, Books

State-Owned Enterprises in Developed Market Economies

Cambridge University Press - Authors: C.F. Del Bo, M. Florio, M. Frigerio, D. Vandone - Forthcoming 10 February 2025

IN Publications, Books

Which Europe. To know, discuss, choose

"The European Union has a central role to play on the road to social and environmental justice for all of us [...]"

IN Publications, Working papers

Some questions on the future of R&D on Covid-19 vaccines

A conversation between Massimo Florio and Giuseppe Remuzzi - WP CSIL N. 01/2024