Faculty

NPDE: Faculty

A. Acconcia

Professor of Economics and Director of the Department of Economics and Statistics (DISES) at the University of Naples Federico II and Research Fellow at CSEF.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II. His research topics encompass the fields of fiscal policy and public sector, organized crime, mafia and corruption, growth and economic inequalities.

A. Bennardo

Professor of Economics at the University of Salerno and Research Fellow at CSEF.
He holds the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics from Delta (France) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University. His research interests focus on competition with asymmetric Information, contract theory, general equilibrium theory, and financial economics.

M. Bizzarri

Research Fellow at CSEF.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University. His research focuses on applied economic theory, social and economic networks, and how networks affect market power and information diffusion.

L. Balletta

Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. His main research interests lie in economic theory and contract theory.

F. Caruso

Research fellow (RTD-A) at the University of Naples Federico II.
He holds a Ph.D. Economics from the University of Naples Federico II. His research interest is in the field of mathematics for game theory and economics.

M.C. Ceparano

Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Naples Federico II.
She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II. Her research interests lie in the fields of game theory, mathematical economics, and optimization.

L. Coraggio

Research Fellow at CSEF and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Naples Federico II.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II. His research focuses on machine learning and statistics, with applications to economics.

P. Dall’Ara

Research Fellow at CSEF and researcher at the University of Naples Federico II.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College. His research interests are in economic theory.

A. Ellul

Associate Professor of Finance and Fred T. Greene Chair in Finance at the Kelley School of Business (Indiana University), and Research fellow at CSEF.
He holds a PhD in Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests focus on empirical corporate finance and market microstructure.

M. Giannola

Research Fellow at CSEF and researcher at the University of Naples Federico II.
His research interests focus on applied economics and education policy, with particular attention to peer effects and educational outcomes.

M.G. Graziano

Professor of Mathematics at the University of Naples Federico II, and Research Fellow at CSEF.
She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Naples Federico II. Her current research focuses on general equilibrium theory, infinite dimensional economies, economies with public goods, economies with uncertainty and asymmetric information.

C. Guerriero

Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II and Honorary Research Fellow in Health Economics, Health Services Research Unit at the Department of Public Health and Policy of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
She holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests focus on health economics, economic evaluation of environmental health interventions, and collective household model approach.

L. Incoronato

Research Fellow at CSEF and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II.
His research focuses on macroeconomics, international finance, and sovereign debt.

L. Iovino

Assistant Professor of Economics at the Bocconi University and IGIER.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests are in the fields of macroeconomics, finance, and economic theory.

C. Lacava

Research Fellow at CSEF and economist at the Bank of Italy.
Her research interests include macroeconomics, household finance, and monetary policy.

M. Langella

Research Fellow (RTD-B) at University of Naples Federico II.
She holds a Ph.D. Economics and Finance from the University of Verona and the Graduate School of Economics and Management Universities of Padova, Verona, and Ca’ Foscari (Venice). Her main research interests are in the fields of Labour Economics, Labour Markets, Migration, Economics of Education, and the Economics of Crime. She is also interested in data science and data analysis methods.

F.S. Lucidi

Research Fellow at CSEF and Professor of Statistics at Sapienza University of Rome.
His research focuses on statistics, behavioral analysis, and applications to economics and social sciences.

M. Lombardi

Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Queen Mary University of London. His research topics encompass the fields of mechanism design and implementation, behavioural economics, ethics and laboratory experiments.

N. Lomys

Research Fellow at UC Berkeley and at the University of Naples Federico II.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Center for Doctoral Studies in Economics at the University of Mannheim. Until August 2022, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics. His research interests are Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, and their applications.

I. Marino

Research Fellow at CSEF and Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II.
Her research interests include public economics, inequality, and fiscal policy.

A. Miano

Research Fellow at CSEF and researcher at the University of Naples Federico II.
His research focuses on labor economics, job search, and labor market dynamics.

R. Nisticò

Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II and Research Fellow at CSEF.
He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex. His research interests focus on development economics, economics of education, health economics, labor economics and political economics.

T. Oliviero

Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II and Research Fellow at CSEF.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute. His research interests focus on financial economics, macroeconomics, and housing economics.

L. Pandolfi

Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II and Research Fellow at CSEF.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics, Finance and Management from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His main research interests are in banking, international economics, experimental finance and applied microeconomics.

E. Panetti

Research Fellow at CSEF and Assistant Professor at the University of Naples Federico II.
His research interests include macroeconomics, economic growth, and financial markets.

L. Picariello

Research Fellow (RTD-B) at the University of Naples Federico II and Research Fellow at CSEF.
He holds a PhD in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics. He works on applied microeconomic theory with a particular focus on organizational economics, contract theory, labor economics and corporate finance.

G.W. Puopolo

Professor of Finance at the University of Naples Federico II and Research Fellow at CSEF.
He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II. His main areas of research include asset pricing anomalies, portfolio choice problems with frictions, asymmetric information.

A. Ramazzotti

Research Fellow at CSEF and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pavia.
His research focuses on macroeconomic theory, economic dynamics, and growth.

P. Salmaso

Research Fellow at CSEF and Professor of Statistics at the University of Padua.
His research interests lie in statistical methods and their applications to economics and finance.

A. Scognamiglio

Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II and Research Fellow at CSEF.
She holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research interests lie in labor economics and political economy.

R. Silvestrini

Research Fellow at CSEF and Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
His research interests include macroeconomics, forecasting, and time-series econometrics.

G. Simion

Research Fellow at CSEF and economist at the Bank of Italy.
His research focuses on macroeconomics, financial stability, and international economics.

E. Sartori

Research Fellow (RTT) at the University of Naples Federico II.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Princeton University. His primary research interests are in applied microeconomic theory, information economics, and search/labor.

M. Stein

Research Fellow (RTD-A) at the University of Naples Federico II.
She holds a Ph.D. in Economics at the Paris School of Economics. Her research focuses on business and social networks in development economics, at their intersections with public policy interventions and state institutions.

M. Stenborg Petterson
Research Fellow at CSEF and researcher at the University of Naples Federico II.
His research interests include econometrics, statistical methods, and applied economic analysis.

V. Zurla
Research Fellow at CSEF and at the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin.
She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University. Her research focuses on public economics, labor economics, and gender economics.

A. Zazzaro

Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II and Research Fellow at CSEF, MoFiR, and Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Ancona (Italy). His current research interests are in money and banking, migration and remittances, family firms and economic development.

PhD Committee

Antonio Acconcia, Achille Basile, Sergio Beraldo, Maria Carmela Ceparano, Emilia Di Lorenzo, Maria Gabriella Graziano, Carla Guerriero, Giovanni Immordino, Tullio Jappelli, Langella Monica, Roberto Nisticò, Tommaso Oliviero, Marco Pagano , Marco Pagnozzi(PhD Director), Lorenzo Pandolfi, Marialaura Pesce, Giovanni Walter Puopolo, Antonio Rosato, Maria Carmela Schisani, Annalisa Scognamiglio, Saverio Simonelli, Alberto Zazzaro.