Graduate PhD Students

Current PhD Students

Samira Sarah Abraham

Samira Sarah Abraham

PhD Student since 2018

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

Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati

Caterina Alfonzo

Caterina Alfonzo

PhD student since 2021

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)

 

Yasir Amin

Yasir Amin

PhD Student since 2022

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

Mathías Javier Fondo Baroffio

Mathías Javier Fondo Baroffio

PhD student since 2023

Research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics and Public Economics

Manuel Blasco

Manuel Blasco

PhD Student since 2022

Research interests: Political economy, Economic development

Vito Stefano Bramante

Vito Stefano Bramante

PhD Student since 2019

Research interests: Recommender Systems, Platforms, Labor Economics 

Supervisor: Emilio Calvano

Co-Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò

Lorenzo Casprini

Lorenzo Casprini

PhD student since 2023

Research interests: Climate Change, Macroeconomics

Giorgio Dini

Giorgio Dini

PhD Student since 2020 (curriculum Law and Economics - EDLE)

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

Supervisor: Alessandro Tavoni

Federica Esposito

Federica Esposito

PhD student since 2021

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

Jan Essink

Jan Essink

PhD Student since 2017 (curriculum Law and Economics - EDLE)

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.

Chiara Natalie Focacci

Chiara Natalie Focacci

PhD Student since 2017 (curriculum Law and Economics - EDLE)

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.

Elena Ghibellini

Elena Ghibellini

PhD Student since 2016 (curriculum Law and Economics - EDLE)

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

Supervisor: Marco Lamandini

Paritosh Shankarrao Junare

Paritosh Shankarrao Junare

PhD student since 2023

Research interests: Macroeconometrics, Time series Econometrics.

Francesca Leucci

Francesca Leucci

PhD Student since 2018 (curriculum Law and Economics - EDLE)

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

Supervisor: Luigi Alberto Franzoni

Claudio Lissona

Claudio Lissona

PhD Student since 2021

Research interests: Time Series Econometrics and Macroeconometrics

Elisa Mahfouz

Elisa Mahfouz

PhD Student since 2022

Research interests: Macroeconometrics and Structural VARs

Hubert Massoni

Hubert Massoni

PhD Student since 2021

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

Giorgia Mezzetti

Giorgia Mezzetti

PhD Student since 2022

Research interests: Econometrics, Genomics; Health Economics

Xinyue Miao

Xinyue Miao

PhD student since 2023

Research interests: development economics, labour economics, and innovation economics

Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Dariia Mykhailyshyna

PhD Student since 2020

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

Supervisor: Guglielmo Barone

Co-supervisor: Maria Bigoni

Alessandro Morico

Alessandro Morico

PhD Student since 2021

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

Roberta Muri

Roberta Muri

PhD Student since 2022

Research interests: Climate Change, Spatial Econometrics, Policy Evaluation

Federico Neri

Federico Neri

PhD student since 2023

Research interests: Fiscal policy, Tax policy and Applied Macroeconomics

Giacomo Opocher

Giacomo Opocher

PhD Student since 2022

Research interests: Causal Inference, Political Economy

Elisa Orlandi

Elisa Orlandi

PhD Student since 2020

Research interests: health economics and gender economics

Supervisor: Francesca Barigozzi

Aleandro Palazzo

Aleandro Palazzo

PhD student since 2023

Research interests: Labor Economics and Economic Growth

Alessandra Palomar Fuertes

Alessandra Palomar Fuertes

PhD student since 2023

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

Damiano Paoli

Damiano Paoli

PhD Student since 2022

Research interests: Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Cooperation

Eleonora Romano

Eleonora Romano

PhD Student since 2021

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

Marco Rosso

Marco Rosso

PhD Student since 2020

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

Supervisor: Paolo Vanin

Matteo Santi

Matteo Santi

PhD Student since 2020

Research interests: Quantitative Economic History, Economic Policy and Inequalityù

Supervisor: Matteo Barigozzi

Mahdieh Toodeh Shooshtari

Mahdieh Toodeh Shooshtari

PhD student since 2023

Research interests:Sustainable Economics, Behavioural and Experimental Strategies, Circular Economy, Risk Analysis, Resource Valuation and Decision making.

Supervisor: Marco Casari

Federico Viarengo

Federico Viarengo

PhD Student since 2022

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

Liam Wells

Liam Wells

PhD Student since 2017 (curriculum Law and Economics - EDLE)

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. 

Roujing Wu

Roujing Wu

PhD Student since 2022

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

Shang Yang

Shang Yang

PhD student since 2023

Research interests: Trade, Development Economics

Ozlem Yasar

Ozlem Yasar

PhD student since 2023

Research interests: Institutional Economics, Behavioral Economics, Law and Economics, and Environmental Economics.

Edoardo Zanelli

Edoardo Zanelli

PhD Student since 2020

Research interests: Time Series Econometrics,Statistical Inference, Macroeconometrics

Supervisor: Giuseppe Cavaliere

Xin Zhang

Xin Zhang

PhD Student since 2020

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

Supervisor: Maria Bigoni