PhD Faculty: curriculum in Economics
Academic Board
Available to supervise PhD students on the following issues: (i) the consequences of automation, artificial intelligence, robotization for regional employment, diversification and development; (ii) patterns of diffusion and impacts of Coronavirus on European regions.
Happy to supervise PhD students working on empirical projects on the evaluation of education, health and labor market policies, as well as the intersection of these (i.e. the effects of pension reforms on health, the effects of health policies on labour market participation, returns to education in the labor market).
Available to supervise research on international trade and political economy. I have a strong interest in economic history and would thus especially welcome research on these topics from an historical perspective.
Interested in supervising doctoral students who wish to work in the area of applied labour economics.
My research interests are in the area of empirical macroeconomics. I am interested in supervising students on topics like: measuring uncertainty and quantifying its economic effects; the impact of fiscal and monetary policy intervention. (currently on leave)
Interested in supervising PhD students with an interest in economic geography and economics of innovation
Happy to supervise PhD students with an interest in applied macroeconomics - primarily, on the identification of macroeconomic shocks (e.g., monetary, fiscal, and uncertainty shocks) and their business cycle effects, and the simulation of counterfactual policy scenarios with VAR and DSGE frameworks.
Available to supervise PhD students with an interest in applied economics, especially empirical analysis on economics of aging, retirement decisions, health economics, poverty and inequality.
Interested in supervising PhD students on empirical projects in the field of health economics, labour economics and economics of ageing.
Interested in supervising PhD students in policy issues related to climate change, as the role of carbon taxes and incentives for green investments; in general macro issues, as developments in the preference for liquidity, the role of central bank balance sheets and their link to fiscal policy and more generally topics related to macro stability/instability; in political economy topics, as the role of fiscal rules.
Available to supervise PhD students interested in regional economics and the economics of institutions, in particular with a focus on the historical and long-run determinants of current economic and institutional development.
I am happy to supervise PhD students in most areas of applied microeconomics and microeconometrics, especially on research projects surrounding information (how individuals collect, process, and use information, and why), expectations (how individuals form beliefs, expectations, and other subjective phenomena, and why), decision-making (how individuals make decisions with limited information and uncertain outcomes, and why), and related mistakes and consequences. I am especially keen to supervise PhD students interested in advancing the research frontier on any of the above through innovations in any of the following: applied theory (especially with cross-fertilization from adjacent fields), measurement (especially survey-based), applied econometrics. Since my own research on subjective expectations and decision-making under uncertainty tends to cut across multiple subfields of economics, I am in principle open to supervising PhD students interested in advancing the above themes and tools within the context of any economic application. However, much of my work so far has dealt with applications related to educational choices, family behavior, health investments, labor supply/retirement, climate change education and adaptation, firm behavior, and their intersections.
Available to supervise PhD students with an interest in the following fields related to public economics: taxation and social insurance; public-private partnerships to implement public policies (e.g., infrastructure, R&D, social assistance); fiscal policy and public debt management; regulation and market design in public utilities; fiscal federalism.
Interested in supervising PhD students in political economy.
Interested in supervising doctoral students in any area of labour economics and development economics, with a focus on the economics of migration.
Available to supervise PhD students with a (broad) focus on industrial organization, including R&D, mergers, innovation, and vertical relations. I am also interested in supervising work on online markets (e.g., privacy regulation, data markets, AI) and digital platforms, covering topics such as content moderation, exclusive contracts, quality design, ratings and reviews, pricing and investment strategies. I welcome both theoretical and empirical projects.
Interested in supervising doctoral students in any area of industrial organization, and particularly in the economics of information technology (digital markets, economics of innovation and intellectual property, antitrust in ICT).
Available to supervise PhD theses in development economics, as well as labor, organizational, personnel or gender economics. I have a particular interest in how firms operate (hiring, selling, financing, production management), and to what extent they engage in discriminatory practices
Available to supervise PhD students in the area of applied economics, especially those interested in economic history or development economics
I am happy to supervise students with an interest in political economy, matching theory and its applications, social choice, mechanism design, and experimental economics.
Interested in supervising doctoral students in any area of labour economics and applied econometrics. Typical research topics are quantitative analysis of institutions, immigration, entrepreneurship, unemployment, employment protection, health, economic history.
Available to supervise PhD students in Applied Macroeconomics, with a particular focus on the identification of the effects of macroeconomic shocks and the study of their transmission channels.
I mostly work on the econometrics of program evaluation. I would be happy to supervise projects involving the use of those econometric methods.
Available to supervise PhD students with an interest in applied microeconomics. Preferred research topics are in the area of labour economics and health economics.
Available to supervise PhD students in the area of political economy of fiscal policies. I am interested in exploring the political economy aspects of sovereign debt and analyzing intergenerational sustainability issues related to the optimal design of fiscal rules, debt maturity structure, and the preservation of natural resources.
Available to supervise PhD students with an interest in game theory, mechanism design and oligopoly theory.
Interested in supervising students with an interest in health economics, with particular attention to how access to preventive services, screening programmes, and early interventions affect subsequent health care utilisation, health outcomes, and health care costs. Also interested in supervising methodological and applied research on difference-in-differences designs in settings with interference across units and spatial dependence
I'm interested in supervising students in the area of industrial organization/public economics, primarily where government intervention plays a role. My recent research has addressed the design of regulated sectors, of support to vulnerable consumers in energy markets, of procurement contracts and auction formats therein adopted; of state aids to business; of support in the form of voucher and prize to foster innovation.
Available to supervise PhD students interested in the economics of ageing, in the analysis of consumption and saving decisions, or in household investment and portfolio decisions.
