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Year 2
Second-Year Ph.D. Reading Groups a.y. 2025-26
Three reading groups will be offered: Macro-Finance , Theory and Applied.
Second-year PhD students have to choose at least one reading group per semester: satisfying the requirements of each reading group is a necessary condition for admission to the next year of the program.
Third-year and fourth-year Ph.D. students and junior fellows are also welcome to enrol.
Objectives. Reading groups will give students the opportunity to explore recent advances in selected areas of applied microeconomics, finance and economic theory. Reading groups aim at cultivating skills that are essential to start and conduct research, by exposing students to a diverse set of cutting-edge contributions. These skills include the ability to critically evaluate the literature, handle data and master new methods, and effectively communicate research questions and findings. Throughout each reading group, students will be encouraged to generate their own research ideas and will receive feedback on those ideas.
Structure. Meetings will occur every week. Reading groups are divided into modules. The typical module length is two weeks, with 3 hours of class meetings per week, except for cases detailed in the program below.
In the first week of each module, instructors present a research topic, with a focus on their own work and how they developed a project at each step (idea, implementation, revision process, etc.), to guide the students in the process.
In the first part of a module, instructors give students a list of papers. Each student must pick one, and prepare a referee report and a presentation for the last meeting of the module.
In the second part of a module, students hand in their referee reports and present them.
At the end of each reading group, students are expected to give a presentation of a research paper they intend to work on during the third year of the Ph.D..
Evaluations. Students will be evaluated on the basis of the following three criteria:
1. Class participation (20 percent)
2. Referee reports (30 percent)
3. Research project proposal (50 percent)
In the spring semester, students have the choice to work on a new research proposal, on top of that prepared in the first semester, or keep working on the previous proposal. In this case, the final evaluation will consider how much progress students made on their projects.
Macro-Finance
Coordinator: Ettore Panetti
Topics and instructors:
- Firm dynamics, Riccardo Silvestrini
- Macro labor, Chiara Lacava
- Monetary and fiscal policy, Francesco Simone Lucidi
- Corporate finance, Andrew Ellul
- Topics in asset management, Giorgia Simion
- Information and discrimination in credit markets, Alberto Zazzaro
- Empirical research in banking: Insights from internal rating models, Immacolata Marino
- Topics in empirical banking, Tommaso Oliviero
- Asset pricing, Giovanni Walter Puopolo
- Financial fragility in the age of artificial intelligence, Ettore Panetti
- Behavioral Macroeconomics, Luigi Iovino
- Presentations of research proposals
Theory
Coordinator: Matteo Bizzarri
Topics and instructors:
- Information Design and persuasion, Pietro Dall’Ara
- Social and Economic Networks, Matteo Bizzarri
- Learning under Misspecification, Elia Sartori
- General Equilibrium (Joint with Economic Theory from MEF), Maria Gabriella Graziano
- AI-Driven Market Dynamics, Niccolò Lomys
- Introduction to Mechanism Design, Michele Lombardi
- Introduction to Matching (Joint with Economic Theory from MEF), Pietro Salmaso
Applied
Coordinators: Michele Giannola.
Topics and instructors:
Doctoral students are expected to participate to all the weekly seminars organised by the Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), which is located within DISES and collaborates closely with it.
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