Prospective applicants should look closely at the research interests specified by the professors on their personal Web pages. These will provide the clearest idea of the kinds of research topics supervised at the EUI. It should not be assumed that the interests listed are the only topics those professors will supervise, but they should serve as a useful guide. Specific research interests of the professors available to supervise new researchers are set out below.
In the application form, you are encouraged to list the names of potential supervisors for your research. Faculty members will then become aware that you consider them as potential supervisors. However, you should not contact them and ask them for advice, as this could undermine the competitiveness and fairness of our selection procedure.
New Chairs
Prof. Matthew Mitchell (joining January 2026) – Research Interests: Industrial Organization (specifically the Economics of Innovation and New Technology), Regulation of online platforms including social media
Prof. Zvika Neeman (joining May 2026) - Research Interests: Microeconomics, Mechanism and Information design, Game Theory, and Law and Economics
Ongoing Recruitment
Assistant Professor in Macroeconomics
Professors
Giacomo Calzolari
Full-time Professor
Department of Economics
Provost for Research and External Relations
Office of the Provosts
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
Giancarlo Corsetti
Full-time Professor - Joint Chair
Department of Economics
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Research themes
Macroeconomics, monetary policy ,
Financial crisis ,
International economics
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
Research themes
Microeconomics and microeconomic theory ,
Industrial organization ,
Competition policy ,
Economics of regulation ,
Digital markets ,
Contract theory ,
Information economics
Francesco Drago
Full-time Professor
Department of Economics
Research themes
Economics of organized crime ,
Political economy ,
Economic history
Alexander Ludwig
Full-time Professor
Department of Economics
Research themes
Inequality ,
Families and children ,
Welfare state, welfare state reform ,
Quantitative macroeconomics ,
Social mobility ,
Quantitative methods ,
Migration ,
Economics of education ,
Health economics
Leo Kaas
Full-time Professor
Department of Economics
Research themes
Quantitative macroeconomics ,
Labour economics ,
Macro-labour ,
Firm dynamics ,
Inequality ,
Housing markets ,
Search and matching
Fabrizia Mealli
Head of Department
Full-time Professor
Department of Economics
Research themes
Microeconometrics and causal inference ,
Causality in econometrics ,
Group interactions and network effects ,
Applied econometrics ,
Survey data (design, collection and analysis)
Leonardo Melosi
Full-time Professor
Department of Economics
Research themes
Macroeconomics, monetary policy ,
Fiscal policy ,
Applied econometrics ,
Quantitative macroeconomics ,
International economics ,
Prices and inflation ,
European macroeconomic issues
Barbara Rossi
Full-time Professor
Department of Economics
Research themes
Applied international finance ,
Macroeconometrics ,
Time series econometrics
Alessandro Tarozzi
Full-time Professor
Department of Economics
Research themes
Survey data (design, collection and analysis) ,
Microeconometrics ,
Experiments and behavioural economics ,
Modern India ,
Health economics ,
Growth and development
Assistant Professors
Other Affiliated Professors