The research staff is organized around broad research areas, that are detailed below.:
general equilibrium theory; contract theory; auction theory; economics of information; industrial economics and public economics.
business cycle analysis; economic growth and income inequality; macroeconomic effects of fiscal and monetary policies; macroeconomic forecasting.
micro-econometric analysis of models of consumers and firms; labour economics; health economics; economics of corruption; behavioural economics.
financial intermediaries; corporate finance; banking and insurance economics; market microstructure; financial regulation; corporate governance; risk and investment decisions.
- ENVIRONMENTAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS
economic geography; urban economics; tourism economics;; socio-economic and cultural impact of globalisation; analysis and evaluation of natural resources and technologies and their environmental impact.
mathematical models for strategic and individual decisions; cooperative and non-cooperative game theory; social choice, equity and welfare; uncertainty and information; theory of public goods.
analysis and evaluation of complex systems, forecasts and computational problems; non-parametric classification and regression methods; surveys for social and economic analyses.
history of economic growth; national and international financial history; long-term dynamics of public debt; business history and corporate governance; industrial archaeology; history of agriculture; globalisations in historical perspective; economic and financial growth of Italian Mezzogiorno.