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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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Quantitative Methods and Economic Modeling

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Coordinator

Francesco Ravazzolo

Members

Paolo Coletti, Claudia Di Caterina, Francesca Marta Lilja Di Lascio, Alessandro Fedele, Davide Ferrari, Andreas Heinrich Hamel, Yuriy Kaniovskyi, Alexander Moradi, Paolo Roberti, Steven Eric Stillman, Carola Schrage, Stefan Franz Schubert, Mirco Tonin, Daniela Visetti, Alex Weissensteiner

Description

The Research Cluster encompasses research in the theoretical foundation and the methodological aspects that are relevant for the empirical study of the economy/economic life/economics.

Its research activities can be classified into to the following interconnected domains:

  • Growth, regional development and business cycles.
  • Labour economics, public finance and evaluation of public policies.
  • International Economics and Macroeconomics modelling.
  • Mathematical and numerical methods (decision theory, risk analysis, optimization) of economics, finance and management science and their theoretical foundations.
  • Statistical methods and Econometrics, including computational statistic and Monte-Carlo simulations, data analysis and forecasting methods, big data sets and high-dimensional models, classification and network analysis.

Involving experts in methodology as well as applied scientists, the research agenda addresses issues that are at the core of the current scientific debate, affecting society, individuals, institutions and markets.

Sample of publications