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

April 1, 2026 | Publications, Working papers | By MG

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝

𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝟕 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬

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

September 16, 2024 | Publications, Working papers | By MG

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

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.

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Highlights

IN Publications, Articles

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

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 [...]"