Research at the Department of Economics

Research Publications

The research activities of the Department cover a wide range of topics in the fields of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Econometrics.

• Journal Publications
• Working Papers
• Other Publications

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Policy Implications of our research

• LaFonte Blog
• Research Highlights
• Podcast 'Inflation and Europe’s public finances'.

 

Economics department research themes

Professors

• Giacomo Calzolari

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

  Provost for Research and External Relations

  Office of the Provosts

  View Giacomo Calzolari profile

  Research themes

  Industrial Organization and Competition Policy, Auctions and Procurement, Economics of regulation, Banking and finance, Banking regulation and supervision, Experiments and behavioural economics, Mechanism design, Incentives and contract theory, Information economics, Economics of Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Organization and Competition Policy, Microeconomics and microeconomic theory

• Özlem Bedre Defolie

  Full-time Professor - Joint Chair

  Project Director

  Department of Economics

  Full-time Professor - Joint Chair

  Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

  Full-time Professor - Joint Chair

  Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

  View Özlem Bedre Defolie profile

  Research themes

  Microeconomics and microeconomic theory, Industrial organization, Competition policy, Economics of regulation, Digital markets, Contract theory, Information economics

• Russell Cooper

  Part-time Professor

  Department of Economics

  View Russell Cooper profile

  Research themes

  Macroeconomics, monetary policy, International economics, Applied econometrics, Industrial organization, Experiments and behavioural economics, Firm dynamics, Household finance, consumption and saving, Macroeconometrics

• Giancarlo Corsetti

  Full-time Professor - Joint Chair

  Department of Economics

  Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

  View Giancarlo Corsetti profile

  Research themes

  Macroeconomics, monetary policy, Financial crisis, International economics

• Andrea Ichino

  Part-time Professor

  Department of Economics

  View Andrea Ichino profile

  Research themes

  Labour economics, Economics of education, Economics of the family, Law and economics, Group interactions and network effects, Intergenerational social mobility and income inequality, European labour markets, rigidity and flexibility, Causality in econometrics, Experiments and behavioural economics, Economics of organisations and personnel, Gender studies, Income distribution, living standards and social mobility, Labour economics, industrial relations and social insurance, Microeconometrics and causal inference

• Alexander Ludwig

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

  View Alexander Ludwig profile

  Research themes

  Inequality, Families and children, Welfare state, welfare state reform, Quantitative macroeconomics, Social mobility, Quantitative methods, Migration, Economics of education, Health economics

• Fabrizia Mealli

  Head of Department

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

  View Fabrizia Mealli profile

  Research themes

  Microeconometrics and causal inference, Causality in econometrics, Group interactions and network effects, Applied econometrics, Survey data (design, collection and analysis)

• Barbara Rossi

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

  View Barbara Rossi profile

  Research themes

  Applied international finance, Macroeconometrics, Time series econometrics

• Alessandro Tarozzi

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

  View Alessandro Tarozzi profile

  Research themes

  Survey data (design, collection and analysis), Microeconometrics, Experiments and behavioural economics, Modern India, Health economics, Growth and development

Assistant Professors

• Zeinab Aboutalebi

  Full-time Assistant Professor

  Department of Economics

  View Zeinab Aboutalebi profile

  Research themes

  Information economics, Political economy, Economics of organisations and personnel, Game theory, Industrial Organization and Competition Policy, Microeconomics and microeconomic theory

Joint Chairs

• Thorsten Beck

  Full-time Professor

  Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

  View Thorsten Beck profile

  Research themes

  Banking regulation and supervision, Macro and corporate finance, International economics, Macroeconomics and finance

 Publications

Your research & papers.

• Cadmus, the Institutional Repository of Academic Publications
• How to submit your publications in Cadmus
• How to publish a paper in the EUI-ECO Working Paper series
• ECO Working Papers - EconPapers
• ECO Working Papers - RePec