The Department of Economics provides a dynamic research environment in which faculty members and distinguished visitors conduct both applied and theoretical research in all areas of economics. The department is actively involved in the international academic job market to hire its junior and senior faculty.

The core mission of the department is to conduct first-rate research in economics and to follow the best practices of the international scientific community.

Its faculty includes Fellows of the Econometric Society, past presidents of the European Economic Association, editors and members of the editorial boards of leading journals in Economics, recipients of competitive grants (e.g., by the European Research Council and the National Science Foundation), and winners of prestigious awards and fellowships, such as the Y. Jahnsson award by the European Economic Association or the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. The Head of the Department is Tito Boeri.

Some members of the department act as consultants for international organizations, such as the IMF, the World Bank, the IDB, the United Nations, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, and are regular columnists in national and foreign newspapers.

Members of the department are actively engaged with the scientific activities of some of Bocconi's research centers, such as Baffi Carefin , IGIER ,  GREEN  and LEAP .

Welcome to Bocconi PhD in Economics and Finance . 

We designed our program for highly qualified and motivated students who wish to acquire world-class research skills and pursue academic careers in economics, finance, and accounting.

The program is multidisciplinary in nature and features  three tracks (curricula) : Economics, Finance,  and  Accounting  – linked by a common core.

The program comprises two year of  structured course work  followed by guided transition into  research . Bocconi places high weight on advising, mentoring and supporting students throughout their studies, and especially in preparation for the international job market.

Our PhD classes benefit from the  interaction  among students from all over the world, with backgrounds not only in economics, finance and accounting, but also other quantitative disciplines such as engineering, mathematics, physics and statistics. 

The Department of Economics is actively involved since many years in the international academic job market to hire its faculty and has been the first at Bocconi University to introduce tenure track positions and Assistant Professorships.

Excellence in research is the criterion that underpins the department’s strategy when selecting and hiring new faculty members, together with a strong focus on teaching activities.

Over time the Department has built an excellent track record in attracting top junior and senior scholars. The high number of European Research Council grants awarded to these scholars bears testament to their excellence, and it is also thanks to them that Bocconi is now one of the top recipients of ERC grants in Economics in Europe.

In this year Junior Job Market, we have hired Erika Deserranno, Sarah Eichmeyer, Rafael Jimenez and Marta Prato .

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People are the core of our department

Jerome Adda New Skills Are the High Road to Higher Salaries

Jerome Frans Adda

Jan David Bakker

Jan David Bakker

Tito Boeri

Tito Michele Boeri

Elisa Borghi

Elisa Borghi

Valentina Bosetti

Valentina Bosetti

Maristella Botticini

Maristella Botticini

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Michela Braga

Giovanni Bruno

Giovanni Bruno

Angelo Marcello Cardani

Angelo Marcello Cardani

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Christoph Carnehl

Deana Gabriele

Gabriele Natale Deana

Francesco Decarolis

Francesco Decarolis

Alexia Delfino

Alexia Delfino

Erika Deserranno

Erika Deserranno

Alfredo Di Tillio

Alfredo Di Tillio

Sarah Eichmeyer

Sarah Beate Eichmeyer

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Carlo Ambrogio Favero

Giuseppe Ferraguto

Giuseppe Ferraguto

Stefano Fiorin

Stefano Fiorin

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Chiara Fumagalli

Francesco Giavazzi

Francesco Giavazzi

Anna Gibert Rivas

Anna Gibert Rivas

Pamela Giustinelli

Pamela Giustinelli

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Joseph-Simon Goerlach

Basile Grassi

Basile Grassi

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Luigi Iovino

Rafael Jimenez-Duràn

Rafael Jimenez Duran

Nenad Kos

Eliana La Ferrara

Thomas Le Barbanchon

Thomas Emile Robert Le Barbanchon

Marco Maffezzoli

Marco Maffezzoli

Massimiliano Marcellino

Massimiliano Marcellino

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Donato Masciandaro

Tommaso

Tommaso Monacelli

Massimo Morelli

Massimo Morelli

Sara Negrelli

Sara Negrelli

Salvatore Nunnari

Salvatore Nunnari

Marco Ottaviani

Marco M. Ottaviani

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Fausto Panunzi

Fausto Panunzi

Nicola Pavoni

Nicola Pavoni

Roberto Perotti

Roberto Perotti

Michele Polo

Michele Polo

Marta Prato

Marta Prato

Luca Sala

Carlo Rasmus Schwarz

Dmitriy Sergeyev

Dmytro Sergeyev

Ksenia Shakhgildyan

Ksenia Shakhgildyan

Andrew Michael Spence

Andrew Michael Spence

Mara Squicciarini

Mara Pasquamaria Squicciarini

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Guido Tabellini

Antonella Trigari

Antonella Trigari

Matteo Giacomo Di Castelnuovo

Matteo Giacomo Di Castelnuovo

Umberto Platini

Umberto Platini

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Andrea Biancardi

Michela carlana.

Kramarz

Francis Kramarz

Rebecca Foriwa Hughes

Rebecca Foriwa Hughes

Patrizia Pellizzari

Patrizia Pellizzari

Sara Picciallo

Sara Picciallo

Marika Podelli

Marika Podelli

Erika Somma

Erika Somma

giovanna tramontano

Giovanna Tramontano

NICOLA PAVONI

NICOLA PAVONI

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note.

Laurea in Economia e Commercio (BA in Economics), University of Verona, Italy. Ph.D. in Mathematics for Economic Decisions, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy. Ph.D. in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Full Professor of Economics and Research Fellow at IGIER. Program Director PhD in Economics and Finance. In 2010 I joined the Bocconi University from the University College London where I was Professor of Economics. Co-Editor: the Journal of the European Economic Association

My work has been published in Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and the International Economic Review among others.

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