PhD Faculty
Professors and Post-doctoral Fellows actively involved in the PhD Program
Francesca Barigozzi
Information Economics, Behavioral Economics, Insurance Theory, Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Position: Professor
Matteo Barigozzi
Time series econometrics, Macroeconometrics, Financial Econometrics, Statistical Inference
Position: Professor
Giorgio Bellettini
Dynamic political economy, Economics of special interests, Voting
Position: Professor
Maria Bigoni
Experimental and behavioral economics, bounded rationality, game theory, industrial organization
Position: Professor
Pietro Biroli
genomics; human capital; health; inequality; life cycle
Position: Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)
Alberto Bisin
Cultural transmission, General equilibrium and finance, Distribution of wealth, Behavior and decisions
Position: Professor of Economics at New York University
Jérémy Marc Olivier Boccanfuso
Macroeconomics, Public Economics and Behavioral Economics
Position: Research fellow
Maria Elena Bontempi
Microeconometrics: endogeneity, heterogeneity, dynamics, measurement. Real and financial choices of firms: uncertainty, innovation, corporate capital structure
Position: Associate Professor
Laura Bottazzi
Trust and venture capital; Firms'capital structure; Financial literacy; Financial innovation and venture capital; Technology and Growth; Financial crisis and the labor market
Position: Professor
Emanuele Campiglio
Climate Economics; Climate Finance; Environmental/Ecological Economics; Sustainability Transitions
Position: Associate Professor
Enrico Cantoni
Voter turnout; Voter persuasion; Political representation and inequality
Position: Research fellow
Marco Casari
Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Local and global commons, Cooperation among strangers, cross-cultural behavior
Position: Professor
Francesco Caselli
Development Economics, Economics and Politics, Economic Growth, Macroeconomics
Position: Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Giuseppe Cavaliere
Time Series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics, Statistical Inference, Empirical Macroeconomics
Position: Professor
Bruno Conte Leite
International Trade; Economic Geography; Environmental Economics; Development Economics
Position: Research fellow
Michele Costa
Poverty measurement, inequality measurement, Gini index, inequality measures decomposition, latent variables, financial
Position: Professor
Vincenzo Denicolò
Economics of innovation and intellectual property, industrial organization and competition policy, social choice theory
Position: Professor
Davide Dragone
Health Economics, Dynamic Optimization and Intertemporal Decision-making, Experimental economics, Industrial organization
Position: Professor
Margherita Fort
Applied microeconometrics (treatment evaluation, quantile regression), labour economics, economics of education, population economics, health economics
Position: Professor
Roberto Golinelli
Econometric forecasts, Economic policy modelling, Microeconometric models of firms’ investment and capital structure
Position: Professor
Carmine Guerriero
Economic History, History of Economic Thought, Institutional Economics, Law and Economics, Political Economy
Position: "Rita Levi-Montalcini" Senior Assistant Professor
Luca Lambertini
optimal control; tragedy of commons; differential games; environmental and resource economics; green technologies; intraindustry trade; industrial organization
Position: Professor
Annalisa Loviglio
Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Position: Research fellow
Paolo Manasse
Macroeconomics, International Economics, Banking and Debt Crises, Fiscal Policy, European Integration, Fiscal Policy and Debt, Political Economy
Position: Professor
Paolo Masella
Economics and Culture, Migration, Labor Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Position: Professor
Nicola Mastrorocco
Political economy and Applied Microeconomics
Position: Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)
Antonio Minniti
Selection of location for firms, competition, market structure, economic growth
Position: Associate Professor
Chiara Monfardini
Microeconometrics, Simulation-based inference, Limited dependent variable models, Applied labour, household and health economics
Position: Professor
Natalia Montinari
Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics
Position: Assistant Professor
Alireza Naghavi
International Trade and Migration, Political Economy and Development, Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation, Economics of Religion
Position: Professor
Francesco Parisi
Law and economics, behavioral law and economics, the economics of contracts, economics of competition, public choice theory
Position: Professor
Roberto Patuelli
Regional labour markets, innovation, entrepreneurship, social capital, spatial modelling, spatial econometrics
Position: Associate Professor
Giovanni Prarolo
Political Economy, Long Term Development, Economics of Religion, Organized Crime
Position: Associate Professor
Enrico Santarelli
Entrepreneurship; Emerging economies; Intellectual Property Right Protecion; Firm and Industry Dynamics; Innovation and Technological Change
Position: Professor
Vincenzo Scrutinio
Labour and public economics; unemployment benefits; training; education
Position: Research fellow
Alessandro Tavoni
Game theory, International environmental agreements, Experimental Economics, Coupled socio-ecological system, CooperationPolitical Economy
Position: Associate Professor
Matthew Wakefield
Saving, Consumption and House purchase decisions; pensions and asset policies; lifecycle models with multiple assets; computational techniques
Position: Associate Professor
Anastasios Xepapadeas
Spatiotemporal Analysis in Economics ; Environment and Growth; Economics of Climate Change; Uncertainty and Robust
Position: Professor
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Economic Growth and Development, Political Economy, Macroeconomics, Economic Development of China
Position: Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at Yale University
