- Milano
- Department of Economics and Finance
Department of Economics and Finance
Director: Prof. Luca Vittorio Angelo Colombo
The Department
The Department of Economics and Finance (DEF) was established in 2013 with the goal of fostering high quality research with a relevant policy impact, promoting participation to the international academic community and providing a rich intellectual environment for both scholars and students. Members of DEF publish on leading economic journals and are active in a number of research fields including: microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics, labour and education economics, public finance, monetary economics, development economics, industrial economics.
Department members include columnists of major financial newspapers and advisors for the Italian government both at the national and regional level. They also have experience as members of international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Fiscal Board.
Economic capsules: NEET
NEET: “Not in Education, Employment or Training” is a term used to describe young people who are not employed, do not study and are not following training courses. Italy holds a sad record in Europe for the number of young NEETs…
Featured research
Battigalli, P., Panebianco, F., and Pin, P. 2023. “Learning and selfconfirming equilibria in network games”, Journal of Economic Theory, 212, 105700.
Consider a set of agents who play a network game repeatedly. Agents may not know the network topology...
News
- 18 April 2024
Internal Seminar: Luca Stella (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
- 16 April 2024
Macro lunch Seminar: Paul Hubert (Banque de France, Sciences Po)
- 11 April 2024
- 4 April 2024
Internal Seminar: Marco le Moglie (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
ERC Starting grant
Professor Lucia Corno received a prestigious ERC Starting grant to develop a project on Harmful Traditions, Women Empowerment and Development.
Hear more on the project from Lucia’s voice.
Contacts
Via Necchi, 5
20123 MILANO
Tel.: 0039.02.7234.2976
Fax: 0039.02.7234.2781
Email: dip.economiaefinanza@unicatt.it
Department Administrative Office:
Via Necchi, 5 (II floor - room. 209)