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)

 

Francesco Alosa

Francesco Alosa

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

Yasir Amin

Yasir Amin

PhD Student since 2022

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

Federico Attili

Federico Attili

PhD Student since 2019

Research interests: Inequality, Public economics.

Supervisor: Michele Costa

Co-supervisor: Maria Bigoni

Dilan Aydin

Dilan Aydin

PhD Student since 2019

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

Supervisor: Giuseppe Cavaliere

Co-supervisor: Andrea Carriero

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

Alessio Carrozzo Magli

Alessio Carrozzo Magli

PhD Student since 2019

Research Interests: Sustainable economics, Public economics and Political economy 

Supervisor: Paolo Vanin

Silvio Cavuto

Silvio Cavuto

PhD Student since 2018

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

 

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.

Fabio Franceschini

Fabio Franceschini

PhD Student since 2018

Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics

Supervisor: Gabriele Camera

Hakan Genç

Hakan Genç

PhD Student since 2018

Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Mechanism and Market Design, Political Economy

Supervisor: Vincenzo Denicolò

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

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

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

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

Oliviero Pallanch

Oliviero Pallanch

PhD Student since 2018

Research Interests: Economic Growth, Institutions and Macroeconomics

Supervisor: Antonio Minniti 

Damiano Paoli

Damiano Paoli

PhD Student since 2022

Research interests: Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Cooperation

Filippo Pavanello

Filippo Pavanello

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

Andrea Renzetti

Andrea Renzetti

PhD Student since 2019

Research interests: Empirical macroeconomics and econometrics.

Supervisor: Andrea Carriero

Co-supervisor: Maria Bigoni

Giovanni Righetto

Giovanni Righetto

PhD Student since 2018

Research Interests: Development Economics, Political Economy, Game Theory

Supervisor: Paolo Vanin

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

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

Vladimir Zabolotskiy

Vladimir Zabolotskiy

PhD Student since 2019

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

Supervisor: Matteo Cervellati

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