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: Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Pharmacoeconomics

Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò 

Working Papers/Publication

1. Greco MT, Roberto A, Corli O, Deandrea S, Bandieri E, Cavuto S, et al. “Quality of cancer pain management: An update of a systematic review of undertreatment of patients with cancer”,  J Clin Oncol. 2014;32(36):4149-54.

2. Lanini S, Zumla A, Ioannidis JPA, Di Caro A, Krishna S, Gostin L, et al. “Are adaptive randomised trials or non-randomised studies the best way to address the Ebola outbreak in west Africa?” Lancet Infect Dis. 2015;15(6):738-45.

3. Infante M, Cavuto S, Lutman FR, Passera E, Chiarenza M, Chiesa G, et al. “Long-Term Follow-up Results of the DANTE Trial, a Randomized Study of Lung Cancer Screening with Spiral Computed Tomography”. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015;191(10):1166-75.

4. Infante M, Cavuto S. “Mortality Reduction, Overdiagnosis, and the Benefit-to-Harm Ratio of Computed Tomography Screening Reply”, Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015;192(3): 399-400.

5. Grossi F, Montanino A, Migliorino MR, Santo A, De Tursi M, Delmonte A, Vitiello F, Mencoboni M, D’Alessandro V, Romano G, Rijavec E, Misino A, Chella A, Roselli M, Cavuto S. “Observational Study on Prolonged Disease Stabilization in Advanced NSCLC EGFR WT/Unknown Patients Treated with Erlotinib in Second Line”,  J  Thoracic Onc. 2017, 12(1):S675-676.

The complete list of publications is available on:

- http://www.researcherid.com/rid/V-2346-2018

- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2845-9310

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: Industrial Organization, Mechanism and Market Design, Political Economy

Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò

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: 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: Development Economics, Political Economy, Game Theory

Supervisor: Paolo Vanin

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