Current PhD Students
PhD Student since 2018
Research Interests: Development Economics, Economics of Education, Economics of Gender
Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati
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)
PhD Student since 2019
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
PhD Student since 2022
Research Interests: Political Economy, Law & Economics, and Development Economics
PhD Student since 2019
Research interests: Inequality, Public economics.
Supervisor: Michele Costa
Co-supervisor: Maria Bigoni
PhD Student since 2019
Research Interests: Empirical Macroeconomics, Macro-econometrics, Time Series Econometrics.
Supervisor: Giuseppe Cavaliere
Co-supervisor: Andrea Carriero
PhD Student since 2019
Research interests: Recommender Systems, Platforms, Labor Economics
Supervisor: Emilio Calvano
Co-Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò
PhD Student since 2019
Research Interests: Sustainable economics, Public economics and Political economy
Supervisor: Paolo Vanin
PhD Student since 2020 (curriculum Law and Economics - EDLE)
Research interests: Environmental economics, Experimental economics, Climate change policy
Supervisor: Alessandro Tavoni
PhD student since 2021
Research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Economics of Gender
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.
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., Lam, P.K. (2020). Why do Unemployed People Avoid Participation in Training? An Experiment for Policy Making. Social Policy & Administration, 1-15.
PhD Student since 2018
Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Gabriele Camera
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
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
PhD Student since 2021
Research interests: Time Series Econometrics and Macroeconometrics
PhD Student since 2020
Research interests: Political Economy, Development Economics, Economics of Culture
Supervisor: Guglielmo Barone
Co-supervisor: Maria Bigoni
PhD Student since 2021
Research interests: Econometric Theory, Time Series Analysis, High-Dimensional Statistics, Financial Econometrics
PhD Student since 2022
Research interests: Climate Change, Spatial Econometrics, Policy Evaluation
PhD Student since 2020
Research interests: health economics and gender economics
Supervisor: Francesca Barigozzi
PhD Student since 2018
Research Interests: Economic Growth, Institutions and Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Antonio Minniti
PhD Student since 2022
Research interests: Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Cooperation
PhD Student since 2019
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
PhD Student since 2019
Research interests: Empirical macroeconomics and econometrics.
Supervisor: Andrea Carriero
Co-supervisor: Maria Bigoni
PhD Student since 2021
Research interests: Macroeconomic Theory, Development Economics, Economic Growth, Economics of Immigration
PhD Student since 2020
Research interests: Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Political and Behavioural Economics
Supervisor: Paolo Vanin
PhD Student since 2020
Research interests: Quantitative Economic History, Economic Policy and Inequalityù
Supervisor: Matteo Barigozzi
PhD Student since 2022
Research interests: Experimental and Behavioural Economics , Social Norms, Intertemporal Social Preferences
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.
PhD Student since 2022
Research interests: Labour Market and Innovation, Development Economics, Environmental Economics and Experimental Economics
PhD Student since 2019
Research interests: Economics of Culture, Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Development Economics
Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati
PhD Student since 2020
Research interests: Time Series Econometrics,Statistical Inference, Macroeconometrics
Supervisor: Giuseppe Cavaliere
PhD Student since 2020
Research interests: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics
Supervisor: Maria Bigoni