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I candidati ammessi dopo la valutazione dei titoli verranno ascoltati
dalla commissione attraverso un colloquio Il colloquio si basa sul
progetto di ricerca presentato e sull'accertamento del background del
candidato in relazione al curriculum di dottorato prescelto Bibliografia
essenziale: Economics. Microeconomics: Consumer theory.
Production theory. Market structures and externalities
Macroeconomics: The IS-LM model. The AD-AS model. Phillips
curve. Ramsey model. Economic Policy: The normative model of
economic policy. Fiscal policy. Monetary policy. Books: • Varian H. R.,
Microeconomic Analysis, Norton &Company. • Blanchard, O.J.,
Macroeconomics, Pearson 5th edition • Acocella, N. Fondamenti di
Politica Economica, Carocci (Eng. Ed.: The Foundations of Economic
Policy, Cambridge University Press) • Stiglitz, J. , Economics of the
Public Sector, Norton &Company Development Economics. Basics principles of development economics; impact evaluation of
development policies and programs; poverty and vulnerability
analysis; international trade, economic growth and inequality;
international finance and development; labor and migration:
sustainable development and environment; common property
resources and determinants of cooperation; agriculture for
development and the economics of farm households. Books: De
Janvry and E. Sadoulet (2016), Development Economics: Theory and
Practice, Routledge, UK. Economic Geography Regional
development theories; the spatial behavior of firms; spatial
agglomeration, regional disparities and regional specialization; local
and global production networks; sustainable development, the
environment and the climate crisis; innovation, technology and space;
the geography of development; urban and regional policies; basics in
digital cartography; foundations of statistical methods for geography
and spatial analysis. Books: • Sheppard E., Barnes T.J., A
Companion to Economic Geography, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. •
Cumbers A., MacKinnon D., An Introduction to Economic Geography:
Globalization, Uneven Development and Place, Routledge, 2019 (3rd
edition). • Martin R., Economy: critical essays in human geography,
Routledge, 2018. • Rogerson P.A., Statistical methods for geography:
a student’s guide, Sage, 2020 (fifth edition). • Clark G.L. et al., The
New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, Oxford University
Press, 2018. Mathematics Basic notions of calculus. Implicit
functions, homogeneous functions. Free or constrained maxima and
minima. Elements of utility theory. Pareto problems. Linear algebra.
Ordinary Differential Equations, systems of linear differential
equations. Dynamic systems: equilibrium and stability. Probability Set
theory, Random Variables; Conditioning, Convergence Theorems,
Central Limit Theorem, Law of Large Numbers, Markov Chains.
Books: • Guerraggio, A., Salsa, S., Metodi matematici per l’economia
e le scienze sociali, Giappichelli, 1997. • Simon, C. – Blume, L.E.,
Matematica per l’Economia e le Scienze Sociali, Università Bocconi
Editore, 2002. • Ross, S., Calcolo delle probabilità, Apogeo 2004. •
Chang, A., Wainwright, A. (1967) Fundamental Methods of Mathematical
Economics (available on-line). • Peccati, L., Salsa, S. and
Squellati, M. Mathematics for Economics and Business, EGEA, 2008
• Intriligator, M.D. (1971) Mathematical Optimization and Economic
Theory, Prentice Hall Series in Mathematical Economics . •
Takayama, A., (1985) Mathematical Economics, Cambridge Univ.
Press. • Blitzstein, J.K., Hwang, J. (2019) Introduction to Probability,
CRC Press. • Liseo, B., Appunti per il corso di probabilità e processi
stocastici, on line at
https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/brulis/probabilita-e-processistocastici-
17-18 Statistics Sampling distributions, estimators,
sufficient statistics. Linear and generalized linear models, OLS theory.
Multivariate analysis. Index numbers, national income models,
income, consumption and productivity measurement. Time series
analysis, panel data analysis, regression and causality. Books: •
Wood, S. Core Statistics, CRC Press, 2014. • Azzalini A. Inferenza
Statistica, Springer Italia, 2001. • Di Ciaccio A., Borra S., Statistica:
metodologie per le scienze economiche e sociali, Mc Graw Hill 2007.
• Stock J., Watson M., Introduction to Econometrics, Pearson 3rd
edition. • Guarini R., Tassinari F., Statistica Economica, Il Mulino,
2000. • Angrist J., Pischke J.S., Mostly Harmless Econometrics,
Princeton University Press, 2009. • Dekking, F.M., Kraaikamp, C.,
Lopuha H.P., Meester L.E , A Modern Introduction to Probability and
Statistics: Understanding Why and How, Springer 2005 |