Graduate PhD Students

Research Interests: Development Economics, Economics of Education, Economics of Gender

Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati

Research interests: Quantitative Economic History, Long-run Development, Economics of Institutions and Culture

Working Paper: "Beyond Mafia: Sicilian Low Social Capital and the Legacy of Feudalism" (with M.P. Squicciarini)

Research interests: Optimal Taxation, Responses to Taxation, Welfare Theory.

Working paper/publication: "Optimal Inheritance Taxation: Should The Rich Pay More?" forthcoming on the 2020 edition of "The Public Sphere Journal of Public Policy" (PSJ) 

Supervisor: Matthew John Wakefield

Research Interests: Political Economy, Law & Economics, and Development Economics

Research interests: Inequality, Public economics.

Supervisor: Michele Costa

Co-supervisor: Maria Bigoni

Research Interests: Empirical Macroeconomics, Macro-econometrics, Time Series Econometrics.

Supervisor: Giuseppe Cavaliere

Co-supervisor: Andrea Carriero

Research interests: Political economy, Economic development

Research interests: Recommender Systems, Platforms, Labor Economics 

Supervisor: Emilio Calvano

Co-Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò

Research Interests: Sustainable economics, Public economics and Political economy 

Supervisor: Paolo Vanin

Research interests: Environmental economics, Experimental economics, Climate change policy

Supervisor: Alessandro Tavoni

Research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Economics of Gender 

Research Interests: Economics of crime, economics of immigration, policy evaluation

Supervisor: Paolo Vanin

Short Bio
Jan holds a MSc degree Economics and Business from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a LLM degree from Ghent University (specializing in Law & Economics).  In the past he has been a visiting research scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

Research Interests: Labour Law & Economics, Policy Evaluation

Supervisor: Enrico Santarelli (co-supervisor Francesca Fauri)

Working Papers/Publications

• Focacci, C.N., Incerpi, A., Molteni, M., Pala, G.M., Ramazzotti, A. (July 2017),  Review of “Measuring Wellbeing: A History of Italian Living Standards", Economic History - EH.net
• Focacci, C.N. (December 2019), “Can Elites Make A Difference? The Building Up of Prerequisites for Modernisation in Lombardy and Venetia (1814-66)”, «JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC HISTORY».
  

• Focacci, C.N., Lam, P.K. (2020). Why do Unemployed People Avoid Participation in Training? An Experiment for Policy Making. Social Policy & Administration, 1-15.

Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics

Supervisor: Gabriele Camera

Research Interests: Banking and financial regulation, Competition and state aid policy, Law and economics

Supervisor: Marco Lamandini

Research Interests: Law and Economics of Competition and Regulation, Environmental Law and Economics, Energy and Administrative Law

Supervisor: Luigi Alberto Franzoni

Research interests: Time Series Econometrics and Macroeconometrics

Research interests: Macroeconometrics and Structural VARs

Research interests: Climate Change Economics, Environmental Economics, Macroeconomic Theory, Production Networks 

Research interests: Econometrics, Genomics

Research interests: Political Economy, Development Economics, Economics of Culture

Supervisor: Guglielmo Barone

Co-supervisor: Maria Bigoni

Research interests: Econometric Theory, Time Series Analysis, High-Dimensional Statistics, Financial Econometrics

Research interests: Climate Change, Spatial Econometrics, Policy Evaluation

Research interests: Causal Inference, Political Economy

Research interests: health economics and gender economics

Supervisor: Francesca Barigozzi

Research Interests: Economic Growth, Institutions and Macroeconomics

Supervisor: Antonio Minniti 

Research interests: Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Cooperation

Research interests: Climate Change Economics, Environmental Economics, Microeconometrics

Publications: De Cian, E., Pavanello, F., Randazzo, T., Mistry, M. N., Davide, M. (2019) Households’ adaptation in a warming climate. Air conditioning and thermal insulation choices. Environmental Science & Policy, 100, 136-157 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.06.015

Supervisor: Anastasios Xepapadeas

Co-supervisor: Annalisa Loviglio

Research interests: Empirical macroeconomics and econometrics.

Supervisor: Andrea Carriero

Co-supervisor: Maria Bigoni

Research interests: Macroeconomic Theory, Development Economics, Economic Growth, Economics of Immigration

Research interests: Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Political and Behavioural Economics

Supervisor: Paolo Vanin

Research interests: Quantitative Economic History, Economic Policy and Inequalityù

Supervisor: Matteo Barigozzi

Research interests: Experimental and Behavioural Economics , Social Norms, Intertemporal Social Preferences

Research Interests: Environmental Law and Economics; Public Law and Economics

Supervisor: Michael Faure and Elena Reznichenko (Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics)

Short bio
Liam holds a BA degree in law from Merton College, University of Oxford and an LLM degree (with distinction) from Erasmus University Rotterdam. He trained as a lawyer in England and undertook Pupillage in public and administrative law. 

Research interests: Labour Market and Innovation, Development Economics, Environmental Economics and Experimental Economics

Research interests: Economics of Culture, Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Development Economics

Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati

Research interests: Time Series Econometrics,Statistical Inference, Macroeconometrics

Supervisor: Giuseppe Cavaliere

Research interests: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics

Supervisor: Maria Bigoni