Team
The VERA center carries out its research and educational activities thanks to the efforts made by all the team members that make it up.
The Center aims to expand the research and teaching network through the recruitment of academic staff (also through direct call), financing visiting position for qualified international experts and scholars, attracting Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellows and ERC grantees, providing them appropriate infrastructures, potential collaborations and accompanying measures.
Thanks to funding from the VERA center, the Department of Economics has recruited professors and young researchers to enhance its research and educational activities.
Elisa Barbieri
Associate Professor of Applied Economics
Research interests: Industrial policies, developing countries
Stefano Battiston
Associate Professor of Economic Policy
Research interests: Network models, systemic risk, sustainable finance, climate risk
Giacomo Di Tollo
Research Fellow in Mathematical Methods of Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences
Research interests: Research evaluation by quantitative methods; autonomous evolutionary computation; credit risk assessment by neural networks; experimental analysis of algorithms; financial optimization; touristic districts by metaheuristics
Vera Djordjilovic
Assistant Professor in Statistics
Research interests: Computational statistics, biostatistics
Fabio Michelucci
Full Professor of Economics
Research interests: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Market Design
Francesco Moscone
Associate Professor of Public Economics
Research interests: Applied Econometrics, Health Economics
Ayokunle Anthony Osuntuyi
Research Fellow in Econometrics
Research interests: Asset pricing, multivariate analysis, bayesian inference, monte carlo methods, performance measures, risk management, portfolio theory
Davide Raggi
Associate Professor of Econometrics
Research interests: Monte Carlo methods for inference, State-space models, nonlinear models, time series econometrics (Markov switching, volatility modelling, jumps in finance), macroeconometrics (DSGE and VAR models)
Teresa Randazzo
Research Fellow in Econometrics
Research interests: Microeconometrics, development economics and economics of migration
Simone Righi
Assistant Professor in Mathematical Methods of Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences
Research interests: Industrial organization, social interactions and network theory, opinion dynamics and applications to simulated financial markets, microeconomics
Alessandro Spiganti
Assistant Professor of Economic Policy
Research interests: Economics of innovation, climate change economics
Lucia Zanotto
Research Fellow in Social Statistics
Research interests: New models to analyze demographic, social data
In 2019/2020 the Department of Economics launched the Chairs of Excellence Programme to attract international researchers and scholars.
Loukas Balafoutas (University of Innsbruck)
Experimental Economics taking into particular consideration the following topics: various determinants of prosocial and antisocial behaviour, human cooperation, behaviour in tournaments, the role of emotions in economic decision-making, and issues related to political economics, property rights, and questions on economic equality.
Michele Boldrin (Washington University in Saint Louis)
Teaching activities in Macroeconomics for students of Master’s Degrees and PhD Programme.
Christopher Cotton (Queen's University)
Game theory, experimental economics and empirical methods to answer a range of policy questions.
Amir Rabah (University of Iowa)
Micro-economic theory (pure and applied), and covers the fields of game theory, industrial organization, economic dynamics.
In 2018 the Department of Economics won the 4th edition of the “Top-up Foscolo Europe Fellowship [ITA]”, sponsored by UniCredit Foundation. Thanks to the award, Ca’ Foscari has offered a four-year post doc position with a highly competitive wage.
Marco Di Cataldo
Research interests: Public policy analysis, economic geography, political economy
In 2018 the Department of Economics host the 2018 edition of the “Carlo Giannini Fellowship in Econometrics”, sponsored by UniCredit Foundation. Thanks to this founding, Ca’ Foscari has offered a two-year post doc position to Dario Palumbo from University of Cambridge.
The VERA Centre has its own governance, complementary to the governance of the Department of Economics. The Director, supported by the Management Board members, presents an annual report on the activities of the Centre, the budget and the results achieved, compared to performance indicators, and the future planned actions. The Director is also supported by the person in charge of each research area of the project.
In addition, the governance includes an International Review Board, which has the task to evaluate and verify that research activity is carried out in accordance with ethical principles defined in international and national legislation, and an Advisory Board, which is made up of members who, individually or collectively, will provide independent advice on scientific research lines as well as views and suggestions on the identified actions and new development plans.
Director
Roberto Casarin
Full Professor of Econometrics
Management Board
Michele Bernasconi
Full Professor of Public Economics
Monica Billio
Full Professor of Econometrics
Agar Brugiavini
Full Professor of Economics
Pietro Dino Enrico Dindo
Full Professor of Economics
Carlo Giupponi
Full Professor of Applied Economics
Stefano Magrini
Full Professor of Economic Policy
Paolo Pellizzari
Full Professor of Mathematical Methods of Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences
