Academic Year 2023-24

The PhD program in Political Economy, operating under the Doctoral School in Economics, involved faculty members primarily affiliated with the school in its educational and scientific activities. A notable portion of the teaching staff included external professors from national and international universities.

Program Structure and Curriculum

• First-year courses consisted of 20 two-hour lessons in the first term and 12 two-hour lessons in the second/third term. Examinations were held at the end of each term, with one recovery session permitted in October. Admission to the second year was contingent on exam results. All first-year students from the previous year were eligible for advancement based on their academic performance.
• Second Year: Each student was assigned a supervisor (internal or external) to guide their research. Students who did not request or obtain suspensions (granted for research training, international placements, or work-related reasons) identified a doctoral thesis topic. The doctoral college regularly evaluated research progress through "work in progress" presentations. Second-year students presented their research plans and preliminary scientific articles at a doctoral workshop attended by peers, supervisors, and faculty.
• Third Year: In collaboration with supervisors, thesis research quality and progress were closely monitored. Third-year students presented their finalized research plans, thesis outlines, and key scientific articles at a doctoral workshop.

Student Progress and Admissions

38th Cycle Students Admitted to the 3rd Year:

• Andresciani Clara
• Coltrinari Elisa
• De Fabrizio Angelica
• Federico Antonio Pietro
• Ferreira Vicente
• Geri Nicolo
• Memishaj Sevdije
• Musa Oriola
• Tomasone Francesco

39th Cycle Students Admitted to the 2nd Year:

• Bik Mirabela Roxana
• Bossola Benedetta
• D'Angelo Francesco
• De Tollis Sara
• Gatto Matteo
• Guerriero Alessandro
• Rosin Danilo
• Scola Gagliardi Elena

Graduation Outcomes

In the academic year 2023-24, the following students successfully defended their theses:

• Colcerasa Francesco
• D'Amario Federico
• Giannantonzi Costanza
• Tarquini Giulio
• Ciganovic Milos
• D'Andrea Sara
• Marrocco Alessia
• Vassalli Federica

Academic and Research Initiatives

The program strengthened its focus on teaching and advanced analytical techniques, particularly statistical learning algorithms for large-scale empirical data (Big Data). These efforts included developing predictive tools for economic trends and structural analysis methods using high-dimensional controls. The program acquired an additional high-performance server for parallel computing, accessible remotely to all doctoral students.

Collaborative Events

Seminars and Guest Lectures

2023

• Kharazi Aicha (University of Exeter): Collateral-Constrained Agents and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
• Ludwig Alexander (Goethe University Frankfurt): Climate Change Mitigation: How Effective is Green Quantitative Easing?
• Rachedi Omar (Esade Business School): Robot Adoption and Inflation Dynamics
• Horii Ryo (Osaka University): Non-Exponential Growth Theory
• Ding Sitong (LSE): The Market for Inflation Risk
• Gaballo Gaetano (HEC Paris): Spending Allocation under Nominal Uncertainty: A Model of Effective Price Rigidity
• Sawyer Malcolm (Leeds University): Monopoly Capitalism in the Past Four Decades
• Pitelis Christos (Leeds University): Big Tech and Platform-Enabled Multinational Corporate Capital(ism)
• Ietto-Gillies Grazia (South Bank University): A Dialogue on Evolutionary, Structural, and Post-Keynesian Research Perspectives
• Rossi Barbara (Pompeu Fabra): Euro Area Monetary Policy Effects: Does the Shape of the Yield Curve Matter?
• Bilbiie Florin (Cambridge University): Greed? Profits, Inflation, and Aggregate Demand

2024

• Stoellinger Roman (Delft University): AI and the Reconfiguration of Global Value Chains
• Wirkierman Ariel (Goldsmith University): Advanced Course on Input-Output and Structural Analysis
• Romei Federica (Oxford): Monetary Policy During Unbalanced Global Recoveries
• Pappa Evi (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Common Trends in European Labor Share Dynamics and US Comparisons
• Giacomini Raffaella (University College London): Perceived shocks and impulse responses