PHD-EQM

PhD Programme in Economics and Quantitative Methods

Seminar -  18 November 2026 h. 14:30 Aula Tabarca

Speaker: Prof. Andrea Marcucci,University of Turin

Title:  Water Wars

Abstract: How does the geography of water resources shape violent conflict? We assemble a georeferenced panel spanning the entire African continent from 1997 to 2023, combining detailed data on hydrology and conflict.

Seminar -  21 December 2026 h. 11:00

Speaker: Prof. Maria Flavia Harari,The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Title:  Residential Patterns and Local Public Goods in Urban Brazil

Abstract: Millions of migrants in developing countries move to urban areas in search of better prospects, but access to public services varies widely within cities. 

“The Inferiority Premium: Evidence for Price-Quality Inversion in Sensory Consumer Markets ” 

Davide Stocco (PostDoc at CREST - ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
TITLE: Asset management with an ESG mandate

ABSTRACT

Social Environment as a barrier to treatment and innovation adoption

Laura Lasio (JRC) and Laura Grigolon (Mannheim)

Abstract: Lung cancer is associated with smoking and characterized by low treatment rates and research funds. We estimate a model of treatment choice where patients internalize the negative social environment surrounding the disease, basing their treatment decision on the treatment decisions of their reference group. Identification rests on the exogenous variation in the treatment propensity of physicians.

The authors will present a combination of both published and work in progress research on organized crime. 

Doomsday to Today: 1,000 Years of Spatial Inequality

Abstract

To what extent were modern within-state spatial inequalities established in the distant past? Using uniquely detailed data from the Doomsday Book, I show that areas of England that were 10% richer in 1086 remain on average between 1% and 2% richer today almost 1,000 years later.

All Along the Watchtower: Military Landholders and Serfdom Consolidation in Early Modern Russia

Andrea Matranga and Timur Nathkov

Abstract:

Paolo Crosetto (INRAE) 

"Using the laboratory to design and inform (nutritional) policies."

Tuesday 27 February - h. 15.30

Room: Sala Acquario.

Francesco Manaresi (Bank of Italy)

"Managerial Input and Firm Performance. Evidence from a Policy Experiment."

Wednesday 14 February - h. 14.30

Sala Acquario, DIEC

"Some optimal control problems for epidemics"

SALVATORE FEDERICO - UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA

Thursday 18 January h 11.00

Aula ESTREMO PONENTE 

MARCO PANGALLO - CENTAI INSTITUTE 

Inferring beliefs on climate risk from a datadriven agent-based model of the housing market

13 December h 12 - Aula Acquario