Gisela Di Meglio

Gisela Di Meglio is PhD Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic Analysis II at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is also a Council member of the European Association for Research on Services (RESER). She has been a visiting scholar at the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (University of Sussex, United Kingdom) and a research fellow at the University of Alcalá (Spain) and at the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). Her research interests include structural change, economic growth and development, productivity, competitiveness and efficiency of services.

She has worked on several research projects financed by the Commission of the European Communities and different Spanish public institutions. At present, she is the main researcher of a project granted by the Ramón Areces Foundation that investigates the role of the services sector as an engine for economic growth in developing countries. She is author of a number of refereed articles, reports and book chapters.

• Di Meglio, G. (2016). Services and Growth in Developing Countries: a Kaldorian Analysis. In N. Beerepoot et al (eds): “Globalisation and New Patterns of Services Sector Driven Growth”, Ashgate Dynamics of Economic Space book series (forthcoming).
• Di Meglio, G., Gallego, J., Maroto, A., and Savona, M. (2015). Services in Developing Economies: A new chance for catching-up?. SPRU Working Paper Series (SWPS), 2015-32, 1-33. ISSN 2057-6668.
• Di Meglio, G., Stare, M., Maroto, A., and Rubalcaba, L. (2015). Public services performance: an extended framework and empirical assessment across the enlarged EU. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 33(2), 321-341.

• Di Meglio, G., Pyka, A., and Rubalcaba, L. (2015). On the ‘how many Europes’ Debate: Varieties of Service Economies. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 106(3), 307-320.
•  Di Meglio, G., Stare, M., and Jaklic, A. (2012). Explanation for public and private service growth in the enlarged EU. The Service Industries Journal, 32(4), 503-514.
•  Visintin, S., Maroto, A., Di Meglio, G., and Rubalcaba, L. (2010), The role of cost related factors in the competitiveness of European services, Global Economy Journal, 10(3). The Berkeley Electronic Press.