Department of
Economics
MIUR - Department of excellence

Department of
Economics

"Our Department is firmly at the top of national and international research rankings, with an outstanding ability to attract funds: we recently won two calls funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and received funding as a Department of Excellence for the second time. (...)
These are some of the features that make us an attractive destination for researchers worldwide."

Giacomo Pasini,
Director, Department of Economics

Department of Excellence

The Department of Economics has been declared one of the 180 Italian Departments of Excellence for the second consecutive time. VIVA ("Venice Initiative on Vulnerability Analysis") is an innovative research and educational programme that will be implemented thanks to the Ministry of University and Research funding for the Departments of Excellence programme. The aim of VIVA is to study how to deal with the issues related to social and economic systems in transition, with a special focus on vulnerable situations that might be exacerbated by exposure to exogenous shocks, increasing inequality in multiple contexts (economic, environmental, demographic, health, etc.)

Our research

Research projects

DeliverEEM - Delivering the Energy Efficient Mortgages Ecosystem
Researcher: Monica Billio
Length: 01/10/2024 - 30/09/2026

FORTIC - From remains Of the war to the aRchiTecture of peace in cross-border area of Italy-Croatia
Researcher: Nicola Camatti
Length: 01/04/2024 - 30/09/2026

EUTOPIA HEALTH - Empowering Widening universities in EUTOPIA alliance to foster academic excellence in Health
Researcher: Enrica Croda
Length: 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2028

PLANET4HEALTH - Translating Science into Policy: A Multisectoral Approach to Adaptation and Mitigation of Adverse Effects of Vector-Borne Diseases, Environmental Pollution and Climate Change on Planetary Health
Researcher: Stefano Campostrini
Length:  01/01/2024 - 31/12/2027

Legal uncertainties surrounding financial innovation and their consequences on the effectiveness of Anti-Money Laundering policies - Coordinating EU reforms with the Italian regulatory and supervisory frameworks
Researcher: Andrea Minto
Length: 12/12/2023 - 11/12/2025

Publications

Casarin, Roberto; Costantini, Mauro; Osuntuyi, Anthony
Bayesian nonparametric panel Markov-switching GARCH models
in JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & ECONOMIC STATISTICS, 2024
DOI 10.1080/07350015.2023.2166049

Gottardi, Piero; Mezzetti, Claudio
Shuttle diplomacy
in JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY, 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.jet.2023.105794

Pelizzon, Loriana; Riedel, Max; Simon, Zorka; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.
Collateral eligibility of corporate debt in the Eurosystem
in JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.103777

Lancia, Francesco; Russo, Alessia; Worrall, Tim
Intergenerational Insurance
in JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 2024
DOI 10.1086/730206

Auster, Sarah; Gottardi, Piero
Sorting versus screening in decentralized markets with adverse selection
in JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY, 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.jet.2024.105883

Our campus

In Venice, you will find our San Giobbe Economics Campus, which includes a residential complex for students, a cafeteria, a library, study areas, classrooms, and offices for faculty and staff.

The Treviso Campus (30 km from Venice) serves as the School of Economics, Languages and Entrepreneurship (SELE) headquarters. It focuses on developing advanced skills in economics, management, languages, and culture, with a special emphasis on businesses, markets, national and international relations, and interlinguistic and intercultural relationships.

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News

Prof Luiza Bialasiewicz: 'Trump and the divided geographies of the US vote'

Prof Luiza Bialasiewicz: 'Trump and the divided geographies of the US vote'

Donald Trump has won and he will now become the 47th President of the United States. He trounced the Democratic candidate and current vice-president Kamala Harris by millions of votes. But what persuaded US voters to cast their ballots for a former president, who has been impeached twice and prosecuted thousands of times? We talked about it with Luiza Bialasiewicz, professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Ca' Foscari Department of Economics, a US citizen with an international academic background and former director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

2024 Nobel Prize in Economics to Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson

2024 Nobel Prize in Economics to Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson

The 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and James A. Robinson (University of Chicago), for their studies on how institutions are formed and affect prosperity. Professor Valerio Dotti comments on the topic.

Miscategorization fuels discrimination within organizations and workplaces

Miscategorization fuels discrimination within organizations and workplaces

How does discrimination arise? A new paper by Muhammed Alperen Yasar, Ph.D. student at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University offers valuable insights into the development of discriminatory behaviors in organizations. The study “The emergence of discrimination due to miscategorization” was recently published by the International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior. 

Elderly population against immigrants: hurtful paradox in ageing countries

Elderly population against immigrants: hurtful paradox in ageing countries

A study by Valerio Dotti, an economist at Ca' Foscari, shows how the voting choices of the elderly can favour short-sighted policies on immigration and public spending. ‘Open immigration policies can be good for the public purse’. The study is published in the Journal of Public Economics