Our students develop highly successful careers in academics, international institutions and research centers. Recent graduate work in European Universities such as Paris School of Economics, London Businness School, University of York, Valencia, University of Gothenburg, Paris Pantheonne Sorbonne, Vienna, Oslo, Cologne, European University Institute, Bocconi, Swiss Finance Institute, and outside Europe such Harvard Businness School, Manila and Bangkok, among others. Students interested in policy have accepted positions in public institutions such as the IZA Bonn, OECD in Paris, FAO in Rome, European Commision DG Economic and Financial Affairs, Antitrust Authorities, in Central Banks like the Bank of Italy, the Banque de France, and the ECB as well as private research centers and consulting firms.
PhD in 2024
First placement: Post-doctoral researcher at Université Paris Dauphine (PSL).
Dissertation: Essays in Public Economics: Behavioural Responses to Taxes, Public Good Provision, and Social Welfare
Supervisor: Matthew John Wakefield
PhD in 2019
First placement: Research assistant at the Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Dissertation: Essays on Innovative Activity and the Protection of Innovations
Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò
PhD in 2014
First placement: Research Associate, IZA, Bonn
Dissertation: Understanding Recent Developments in the Turkish Labor Market: Empirical Essays with a Gender Focus
Supervisor: Riccardo Rovelli and Margherita Fort
PhD in 2019
First placement: Research assistant at the Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism, University of Bologna
Dissertation: Essays on Applied Public Economics
Supervisor: Paolo Vanin
PhD in 2024
First Placement: Eurostat - European Commission
Dissertation: From Methodological Challenges to Empirical Insights: Reassessing Income Inequality and Instability
Supervisor: Michele Costa
PhD in 2024
First placement: Economist at the Central Bank of Ireland
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Macroeconometrics
Supervisor: Giuseppe Cavaliere
PhD in 2019
First placement: Assistant Professor at Nanjing Audit University
Dissertation: Three Essays in Economics of Education and Economic History
Supervisor: Daniela Iorio and Vincenzo Denicolò
PhD in 2015
First placement: Post-Doc Researcher, University of Gothenburg - Center for Health Economics (CHEG)
Dissertation: Essays in Health Economics
Supervisor: Davide Dragone
PhD in 2013
First placement: Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
Dissertation: Essays on CEO Compensation: new evidence on the managerial power vs optimal contracting debate
Supervisor: Hartmut Lehmann
PhD in 2011
First placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow – IQSS, Harvard University
Dissertation: Essays on Industrial Organization
Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò
PhD Student since 2014
First placement: Research Fellow at Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Dissertation: Effect of Transmission Capacity Constraints on Electricity Markets
Supervisor: Giacomo Calzolari and Emanuele Tarantino
PhD in 2020
First placement: Junior Research Fellow at the Economics and Statistics Department "Cognetti de Martiis" - University of Turin, Turin (Italy)
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Economics: new empirical approaches to study individual behavior and improve policy targeting
Supervisor: Maria Bigoni
PhD in 2016
First placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher at Aix-Marseille University
Dissertation: Social influence in networks
Supervisor: Giulio Zanella
PhD in 2016
First placement: Economist, Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance
Dissertation: Essays on international trade and globalization
Supervisor: Alireza Naghavi and Gianmarco Ottaviano
PhD in 2018
First placement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Bergamo
Dissertation: Essays on Conflict and Terrorism
Supervisor: Giovanni Prarolo
PhD in 2011
First placement: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, SME and Entrepreneurship Division, salaried Consultant)
Dissertation: Three Essays in Civic Capital
Supervisor: Gaetano Minerva
PhD in 2012
First placement: Lecturer in Economics, Ateneo de Manila University, Department of Economics
Dissertation: Essays on Bank Risk
Supervisor: Gabriella Chiesa
PhD in 2024
First Placement: Research Fellow at Sapienza University (Rome)
Dissertation: Organized Crime, Violence and State Response
Supervisor: Paolo Vanin
PhD in 2022
First placement: Biostatistician at IQVIA
Dissertation: Timeliness, Efficiency and Public Procurement in Hip Surgery in Italy
Supervisor: Daniele Fabbri
PhD in 2013
First placement: Full-time Lecturer – Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University
Dissertation: Essays on Political Instability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati
PhD in 2023
First Placement: Azienda USL - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, SOC Infrastruttura Ricerca e Statistica, SOS Clinical Trial Center
Dissertation: Economic Preferences in the health setting. Three case studies concerning the needs of breast cancer patients, pain management in oncology and extreme end-of-life decisions
Supervisor: Pietro Biroli
PhD in 2015
First placement: Research Fellow at London Business School
Dissertation: Essays Essays on Ethnic Diversity and Development
Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati
PhD in 2020
First placement: Post Doctoral Researcher at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research - Mannheim
Dissertation: Data, Competition and Consumer Privacy in Digital Markets
Supervisor: Emilio Calvano
PhD in 2019
First placement: Researcher at ARPM - Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management
Dissertation: Essays in Minimum Relative Entropy implementations for views processing
Supervisor: Massimiliano Marzo
PhD in 2020
First placement: Data Scientist presso Analytics Network
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Economics
Supervisor: Davide Dragone
PhD in 2011
First placement: Assistant Professor - Department of Applied Economics II, University of Valencia
Dissertation: Essays on European Economic and Monetary Integration
Supervisor: Riccardo Rovelli
PhD in 2011
First placement: Economist @ FAO
Dissertation: Essays A monetary, data-driven multidimensional and a resilience analysis of poverty
Supervisor: Pier Giorgio Ardeni
PhD in 2014
First placement: Postdoctoral Fellow at Swiss Finance Institute @ EPFL
Dissertation: Essays in Asset Trade
Supervisor: Giacomo Calzolari and Fabio Castiglionesi (University of Tilburg)
PhD in 2012
First placement: Assistant Professor at the Institute for Management and Planning Studies in Tehran, Iran
Dissertation: Essays in Industrial Organization
Supervisor: Luca Lambertini
PhD in 2014
First placement: Max Weber Fellowship, European University Institute (Italy)
Dissertation: Essays on Geography and Diseases
Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati
PhD in 2014
First placement: Research fellow at the Department of Economics - University of Bologna
Dissertation: Essays on the Axiomatic Theory of Matching
Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò
PhD in 2012
First placement: Assistant Professor in Economics at the Institute for Management and Planning Studies (Tehran, Iran)
Dissertation: Essays in Environmental Economics
Supervisor: Luca Lambertini
PhD in 2018
First placement: Statistician at OECD Statistics and Data Directorate
Dissertation: Essays in Empirical Development Economics: The Role of Income Shocks on Firm and Household Dynamics
Supervisor: Lucio Picci
PhD in 2014
First placement: Researcher at the Country Surveillance Divison - European Central Bank
Dissertation: Essays in Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Massimiliano Marzo
PhD in 2015
First placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher at MEA (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging) - Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy
Dissertation: Essays in the Economics of Ageing
Supervisor: Matthew Wakefield
PhD in 2012
First placement: Banca d’Italia, Research Department
Dissertation: Topics in financial econometrics
Supervisor: Sergio Pastorello
PhD in 2016
First placement: Young Professional Grant, FRF – FSI at Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University
Dissertation: Essays on the economics of migration
Supervisor: Margherita Fort
PhD in 2024
First placement: Research Fellow at the University of Bologna
Dissertation: "Essays in Asset Pricing"
Supervisor: Martín Gonzalez-Eiras
PhD in 2023
First Placement: Research Fellow at the University of Bologna
Dissertation: Essays in Nonlinear Pricing and Rent Seeking
Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò
PhD in 2015
First placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Economics - Tilburg University
Dissertation: Experiments on pro-sociality and environmental issues
Supervisor: Marco Casari
PhD in 2022
First placement: Research Fellow at the Department of Economic Theory and History, University of Málaga
Dissertation: Essays on Information Economics
Supervisor: Davide Dragone
PhD in 2014
First placement: Economist at Prometeia Associazione
Dissertation: Micro and Macro essays in Applied Fiscal Policy
Supervisor: Paolo Manasse
PhD in 2022
First placement: Junior economist at OECD in Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate
Dissertation: Essay in Empirical Economics: Intangible Economy, Innovative Firms and Institution of Innovation
Supervisor: Alireza Jay Naghavi
PhD in 2016
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics - University of Bergamo
Dissertation: Essays in political economics and voting behavior
Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati
PhD in 2015
First placement: Research Analyst - European Central Bank - DG Economics/Output and Demand Division
Dissertation: Essays in Macroecometrics: Methodological Aspects and Empirical Applications
Supervisor: Roberto Golinelli and Luca Fanelli
PhD in 2020
First placement: Post Doctoral Researcher at IGIER, Università Bocconi
Dissertation: Essays in Economic Geography and Development
Supervisor: Gaetano Alfredo Minerva
Co-supervisor: Matteo Cervellati
PhD in 2014
First placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Economics Department - University of Pavia
Dissertation: Three Essays in Economics of Gender
Supervisor: Giulio Zanella
PhD in 2014
First placement: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Liege and Universite catholique de Louvain
Dissertation: Essays in Industrial Organization and Information Technology
Supervisor: Giacomo Calzolari
PhD in 2019
First placement: Research fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Dissertation: Essays in Long-run Development and Spatial Economics
Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati
PhD in 2019
First placement: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics and Finance, Nanjing Audit University
Dissertation: Three Essays on the Empirical Analysis of An Authoritarian Political Regime
Supervisor: Paolo Masella
PhD in 2017
First placement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Department of Economics and Management - University of Florence
Dissertation: Essays in Financial Econometrics
Supervisor: Sergio Pastorello
PhD in 2018
First placement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Dissertation: Emergency Medical Performance: Why and How Should We Care?
Supervisor: Margherita Fort and Matteo Lippi Bruni
PhD in 2018
First placement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Department of Economics and Management - University of Padova and the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy in Milan
Dissertation: Essays in Vertical Agreements and Consumer Behavior
Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò
PhD in 2011
First placement: Research Fellow at the Bank of Italy
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Microeconometrics
Supervisor: Andrea Ichino
PhD in 2020
First placement: Partner presso Lear
Dissertation: Evaluating non-price effects of regulatory and competition enforcement interventions
Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò
PhD in 2020
First placement: Research fellow at CAST Centre of Advanced Studies on Tourism, Rimini, Unibo
Dissertation: Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Luca Fanelli
PhD in 2020
First placement: Post-doc research fellow Ca' Foscari University Venezia
Dissertation: Essays in Economics of Education
Supervisor: Paolo Vanin
PhD in 2019
First placement: Collaborator at the Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Macroeconometrics
Supervisor: Roberto Golinelli and Paolo Manasse
PhD in 2011
First placement: Post-Doctoral Scholar - University of Cologne
Dissertation: Essays in Behavioral Economics
Supervisor: Giacomo Calzolari
PhD in 2018
First placement: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Waterloo, Canada
Dissertation: Essays on Institutional Economics: On Crime and Enforcement
Supervisor: Giacomo Calzolari
PhD in 2018
First placement: Consultant at World Bank Group
Dissertation: Essays in Discrimination and Inequality
Supervisor: Maria Bigoni
PhD in 2022
First placement: Senior Research Officer at Institute for Social & Economic Research - University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
Dissertation: Ancestry, Gender and Language - The Role of Culture in Economic Development
Supervisor: Paolo Masella
PhD in 2017
First placement: Economist at the National Institute of Social and Economic Research (NIESR)
Dissertation: Essays in International Trade and Finance
Supervisor: Paolo Manasse
PhD in 2024
First placement: Temporary Staff at OECD
Dissertation: Essays in Macroeconomics: insurance, market power, and inequality
Supervisor: Antonio Minniti
PhD in 2024
First placement: 6-year postdoctoral scholar at the IFO Institute
Dissertation: Essays on Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
Supervisor: Annalisa Loviglio
PhD in 2022
First Placement: Research Fellow at Bocconi University (Italy)
Dissertation: Essays in Empirical Political Economics
Supervisor: Paolo Masella
PhD in 2011
First placement: Economist – Italian Competition Authority
Dissertation: Essays in Industrial Organization
Supervisor: Massimo Motta
PhD in 2017
First placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School of Art and Sciences
Dissertation: The Determinants of Individual Performance: Empirical Essays on the Importance of Soft Skills and Monetary Incentives
Supervisor: Maria Bigoni
PhD in 2012
First placement: Post-Doc Fellow at the University of Cologne
Dissertation: Essays in Behavioral Personnel Economics
Supervisor: Andrea Ichino
PhD in 2024
First placement: Research Fellow, Bocconi University
Dissertation: Essays in Bayesian Macroeconometrics
Supervisor: Andrea Carriero
PhD in 2023
First placement: Post Doc Position at Università di Milano Statale
Dissertation: Essays in Political and Gender Economics
Supervisor: Paolo Vanin
PhD in 2011
First placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo
Dissertation: An Essay on Institutions and Contracts for Social Welfare
Supervisor: Giacomo Calzolari
PhD in 2015
First placement: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Lausanne
Dissertation: Essays in Applied and Labor Economics
Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati and Andrea Ichino
PhD in 2012
First placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto
Dissertation: Essays in Household and Demographic Economics
Supervisor: Chiara Monfardini
PhD in 2012
First placement: Research fellow at the Department of Economics - University of Bologna
Dissertation: Patterns of regional differentiation in post-Soviet Russia
Supervisor: Vera Negri
PhD in 2022
First Placement: Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute
Dissertation: Essays in Gender Economics
Supervisor: Maria Bigoni
PhD in 2019
First placement: Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, Federal University of Penambuco
Dissertation: Essays on Policy Evaluation
Supervisor: Paolo Masella
PhD in 2019
First placement: Education economist (ETC) at the World Bank, Education East Asia and Pacific Region unit of the Education Global Practice
Dissertation: Essays on Human Capital Development and Socio-economic Inequality
Supervisor: Chiara Monfardini
PhD in 2016
First placement: Teaching Associate at the University of Lancaster
Dissertation: Essays in Essays in optimal pricings
Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò and Francesca Barigozzi
PhD in 2017
First placement: Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute
Dissertation: Essays in the Economics of the Family and Cultural Transmission
Supervisor: Giulio Zanella
PhD in 2020
First placement: Research Assistant at Economics Department, Istanbul University
Dissertation: Essays in Applied and Labor Economics
Supervisor: Margherita Fort
PhD in 2024
Dissertation: Essays in Political Economy
First placement: Post-doc at the University of Bolzano
Supervisor: Alessandro Saia
PhD in 2018
First placement: Senior Economist at Generali Investment
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Insurance Economics
Supervisor: Paolo Vanin