PhD in Economics

Faculty

Coordinator

Pietro Dindo

Research fields: Financial Economics, General Equilibrium Theory, Economic Dynamics, Evolution in Games and Markets

PhD Board

Together with the Coordinator, the PhD Board plans and organises the activities of the PhD programme.

Antonella Basso

Research fields: Performance of mutual funds, SRI and ethical finance, DEA models for efficiency evaluation, performance of museums, credit risk, option pricing, Monte Carlo simulation, lattice models for standard and exotic options, American options, stochastic dominance, machine learning in finance.

Michele Bernasconi

Research fields: Economics and Psychology, Experimental Economics, Public Finance

Monica Billio

Research fields: Dynamic latent factor models, Simulation based inference techniques, Volatility and risk modelling, Switching regime models, Volatility transmission and contagion, Business cycle analysis, Hedge funds, Systemic risk

Agar Brugiavini

Research fields: Developing models and empirical analysis of the economics of ageing, Female labour-force participation, Life-cycle savings, SHARE.

Stefano Campostrini

Research fields: application of Statistics as support to decision making processes, particularly concerning health and social policies and intervention

Roberto Casarin

Research fields: Econometrics and Statistics. In particular: Bayesian Inference, Bayesian nonparametrics, Count Data, Monte Carlo Methods, Mixture models, Models combination, Random Networks, Stochastic Processes,  Low Rank Decompositions, Latent Positioning, Splines, Stochastic Block Models, Tensor models, Time series models.

Danilo Cavapozzi

Research fields: Economics of ageing, labour economics, health economics, household portfolio choice, applied microeconometrics.

Stefano Colonnello

Research fileds: Empirical Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Institutions, Law and Finance. 

Marco Corazza

Research fields: Portfolio selection and management; Bio-inspired optimization methodologies; Decision support multicriteria methods; Fractal approach to finance

Margherita Gerolimetto

Research fields: Statistical methods for cross-section data analysis, time series

Piero Gottardi

Research fields: Equilibrium Corporate Finance, Firms' Investment and Financing in Dynamic Economies

Marco Li Calzi

Research fields: Organisational economics, Categorical reasoning, Target-based decisions.

Irene Mammi

Research fields: Panel data econometrics, Applied econometrics, Health economics, Estimation of fiscal reaction functions.

Valeria Maggian

Research fields: Experimental Economics & Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, Game theory

Stefano Magrini

Research fields: Regional Economics, Regional Growth and Convergence, Analysis of Spatial Data, Local Policy

Fabio Michelucci

Research fields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Market Design, Auction Theory, Bounded Rationality, Experimental Economics, Political Economy.

Francesco Moscone

Research fields:  Health Expenditure, Spatial Health Econometrics, Hospital Behavior, the Geography of Health and Health Care.

Mario Padula

Research fields: Consumption, savings and pensions; household portfolio choices; applied micro-econometrics; public economics; labor economics; health economics; finance and growth

Giacomo Pasini

Research fields: Microeconometrics, Social Interactions and Networks, Health and Ageing Economics, Labor Economics, Household Finance

Loriana Pelizzon

Research fields: Financial Economics

Paolo Pellizzari

Research fields: Computational Economics and Finance, Agent-based Models, Artificial Markets

Francesca Zantomio

Research fields: Public Economics, Welfare and Disability programmes, Inequalities along the life-cycle, Child Development, Health and Labour economics.

PhD Faculty

The PhD Faculty teaches the research oriented courses dedicated to the PhD programme. 

Quality Assurance Board

The Quality Assurance Board (QAB) ensures and enhances the quality of the program. Its responsibilities typically encompass a range of activities aimed at continuous improvement and accountability. 

External stakeholders

The PhD in Economics regularly consults a panel of external stakeholders from academic and non-academic institutions included in the Advisory Board of the Department of Economics. They provide guidance to ensure that high academic standards and quality objectives are met. Additionally, they offer feedback on the evolving trends and demands of the professional market to better prepare doctoral candidates for their future careers.