Research at the Department of Economics

Our Research

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

There are weekly seminars in all main fields given by top scholars from around the world and a large number of high-profile short-term and long-term visitors and post-doctoral fellows.

ERC projects:

• “Digital Platforms: Pricing, Variety, and Quality Provision (DIPVAR)”
  DIPVAR examines global digital platforms (e.g., Amazon, Apple's App Store) to develop theoretical models and assess their impact on prices, variety, and quality. It also explores competition dynamics, acquisitions, and recommends competition policies for better consumer welfare.
  Project Coordinator: Professor Özlem Bedre Defolie
  
  
• "Social Inclusion and the Political Economy of Education: Building Social Capital in Ethnic Diversity"
  (INCLUSION) hones in on a set of socioemotional skills that benefit not only those who wield them, but also the community at large. More specifically, her research will test educational interventions aimed at developing children’s capacities for tolerance, non-violence, empathy and prosocial behaviour in the face of diversity.
  Project Coordinator: Professor Sule Alan

 

Economics department research themes:

Professors

• Sule Alan

  Full-time Professor

  Director of Research

  Department of Economics

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  Research themes

  Household behaviour, Education, Personal finance, Gender Finance, Experiments and behavioural economics, Economics of education, Gender studies, Growth and development

• Giacomo Calzolari

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

  Dean of Research

  Office of the Dean of Research

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  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

• Edouard Challe

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

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  Research themes

  Speculative bubbles, Precautionary saving behaviour, Macroeconomics, monetary policy, Heterogeneous agents, Macro and corporate finance, Macroecononomics and finance, Fiscal policy in a monetary union

• Özlem Bedre Defolie

  Full-time Professor - Joint Chair

  Department of Economics

  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

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

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  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

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  Research themes

  Macroeconomics, monetary policy, Financial crisis, International economics

• Andrea Ichino

  Head of Department

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

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  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

• Laurent Mathevet

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

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  Research themes

  Game theory, Mechanism design, Information economics

• Fabrizia Mealli

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

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  Research themes

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

• Alexander Monge-Naranjo

  Director of Graduate Studies

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

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  Research themes

  Macroeconomics, monetary policy, Growth and development, International economics, Macro-labour, Economics of education, Dynamic Contracts, Experiments and behavioural economics, Income distribution, living standards and social mobility, Macroecononomics and finance, Africa

• Alessandro Tarozzi

  Full-time Professor

  Department of Economics

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  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

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  Research themes

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

• Jesus Bueren

  Full-time Assistant Professor

  Department of Economics

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  Research themes

  Quantitative macroeconomics, Applied econometrics, Health economics

Other Joint Chairs

• Thorsten Beck

  Full-time Professor

  Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

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  Research themes

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