The Doctoral Programme Committee

  • defines the contents of the call for applications for the Doctoral Programme;
  • organizes the teaching programme and other training activities of the programme;
  • assigns to each Doctoral student a tutor, a supervisor and one or more co-supervisors;
  • supervises the research results of each Doctoral student;
  • authorizes students to go abroad for training periods of more than six months;
  • approves participation of the students in internships organized at Italian and foreign public bodies or private organizations if the internship lasts longer than six months;
  • approves the co-tutelle agreements of in-coming and out-going students;
  • authorizes students to undertake teaching, ancillary or supplementary activities and extra-research activities;
  • at the end of each academic year, approves or denies admission of the students to the following year
  • selects at least two professors/experts to evaluate the student’s thesis;
  • submits to the Rector the names of the members of the Final Examination Committee.

The current Doctoral Programme Committee is the following:

NAME

AFFILIATION

RESEARCH AREA

Accetturo Antonio

Bank of Italy Regional Economics e International Trade

Andreozzi Luciano 

University of Trento

SECS-P/01 - Economics

Evolutionary game theory, Repeated games and reputation, Other regarding preferences, Decision under uncertainty

Bazzana Flavio

University of Trento

SECS-P/11 - Financial Markets and Institutions

Market microstructure and high frequency trading

Bee Marco 

University of Trento SECS-S/03 - Economic statistics

Boffa Federico

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/06 - Applied economics

Economics of self-driving and electric vehicles, The role of public opinion on quality of government, The microeconomics of blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

Bonacchi Massimiliano

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/07 - Business administration and Management

Earnings quality in Private Firms, The effect of Culture on Earning quality, Customer Analytics: how to use customer data to make better
decision.

Curi Claudia

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/09 - Finance

Mergers and asset restructuring in digital financial industry, Artificial Intelligence in banking, Banks, regulation, and performance.

De Luca Giacomo

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/01 - Economics

Political Economics, Development Economics, Organised Crime.

Di Lascio Francesca Marta Lilja

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-S/01 - Statistics

Dependence and Copula Models with emphasis on extreme, Clustering Techniques with emphasis on time series data analysis.

Faillo Marco 

University of Trento

SECS-P/02 - Economic policy

Institutional Economics, Behavioral Economics, Cooperation and social preferences

Fedele Alessandro

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/02 - Economic policy

Applied Theory Topics in Political Economy and Health Economics, Social Economy, Industrial organization.

Ferrari Davide

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-S/01 - Statistics

Analysis of high-dimensional network data with applications in economics and finance, Model selection and assessment of model uncertainty for big econometric data, Statistical modeling for multivariate spatio-temporal data.

Furlanetto Francesco

Central Bank Norges Bank and Norwegian Business School

SECS-P/01 - Economics

Macroeconomics (Business cycle fluctuations, DSGE and SVAR models, monetary policy, immigration, labor markets).

Gabriele Roberto 

University of Trento

SECS-P/06 - Applied economics

Public policy evaluation of Industrial and innovation policies, Industry diversification and growth patterns of firms, Coevolution of firms’ technology and competences

Gaffeo Edoardo 

University of Trento SECS-P/02 - Economic policy

Giuliani Diego 

University of Trento

SECS-S/03 - Economic statistics

Statistical analysis and modelling of microgeographic data, Spatial econometrics,
Empirical regional science

Halla Martin

Johannes Kepler University Lienz SECS-P/01 - Economics

Hamel Andreas

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-S/06 - Mathematical methods of economy, finance and actuarial sciences

Economic and management decision making under incomplete preferences, economic and financial data analysis with potentially non-comparable outputs: multivariate quantiles, rank functions and recommender systems, Games with multidimensional payoffs: equilibrium concepts, payoff guaranteeing strategies, duality based on set-valued approaches, Financial risk measures & insurance premiums for markets with transaction costs based on set-valued approaches.

Kiesel Florian

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano SECS-P/09 - Finance

Mittone Luigi 

University of Trento SECS-P/01 - Economics

Moradi Alexander

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/01 - Economics

Public Sector Economics, Development Economics, Economic History

Morreale Azzurra

Lappeeranta University of Technology SECS-P/01 - Economics

Paterlini Sandra 

University of Trento

SECS-S/06 - Mathematical methods of economy, finance and actuarial sciences

Quantitative finance, Risk management, Sustainable finance, Machine learning

Pieri Fabio

University of Trento

SECS-P/06 - Applied economics

Microeconometric analyses of firm heterogeneity, Productivity, firm growth (high-growth firms and firm decline), and innovation in the face of external shocks, Technical change and internal organization of firms: hierarchies and workforce characteristics

Ploner Matteo 

University of Trento SECS-P/01 - Economics

Ponzetto Giacomo

Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona

SECS-P/06 - Applied economics

Political economics, Economic geography and international trade.

Ravazzolo Francesco

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/05 - Econometrics

Econometrics of large and big database, Energy economics; macro finance, Bayesian estimation of structural models.

Savadori Lucia 

University of Trento

M-PSI/01 - General psychology

Behavioral economics, Decision-making, Risk perception, and Group decision-making.

Siming Per Linus

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/11 - Financial Markets and Institutions

Culture and Finance: The impact of cultural origin on financial outcomes, State Awards & Corporate Behavior: The interplay between nonpecuniary awards and financial outcomes, Identification using Historical Financial Data: Using historical settings to
mitigate endogeneity concerns.

Stillman Steve

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/03 - Public economics

Immigration and Population Economics, Health Economics, Empirical Topics in Labor Economics

Tamborini Roberto 

University of Trento

SECS-P/01 - Economics

Macroeconomics, business cycles, and monetary policy, Macroeconomics and finance, European Economic and Monetary Union

Taufer Emanuele 

University of Trento

SECS-S/01 - Statistics

Multivariate moments and cumulants, graphical models, tail estimation with applications in finance.

Tomasi Chiara

University of Trento

SECS-P/06 - Applied economics

Trade policy and firm performance in international markets, Productivity, markups and misallocation of resources, Labour market mismatch and firm productivity.

Tonin Mirco

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-P/02 - Economic policy

Field Experiments in Behavioral Personnel Economics, The Economics of Charitable Giving.

Vatiero Massimiliano

University of Trento

SECS-P/01 - Economics

Contract Theory, Transaction Cost Economics, Law & Economics; Theory of the Firm, Corporate governance, CSR.

Weissensteiner Alex

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

SECS-S/06 - Mathematical methods of economy, finance and actuarial sciences

Financial Asset Allocation under Parameter Uncertainty, Theoretical and Empirical Asset Pricing,
Estimating the economic impact of Covid-19 with quantitative finance tools.