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Big & Smart Data Analysis

EUI, SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNMENT, 2023 – 2024 Big data are everywhere, from big firms to big government. Policy leaders must know the use (and misuse) of data, either to regulate them or to use them to design welfare-enhancing policies. Moreover, they must be aware that the enormous predictive power …

Current Political Phenomena

UNIVERSITÀ BOCCONI, 2018 – 2019 The course aims at discussing current political phenomena in a workshop setting. Students are divided in groups and encouraged to critically present the assigned materials after a general lecture from the instructor. The course deals with current political phenomena from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a …

Formal Political Theory I

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2017 – 2018 Game theory is widely used in political science to analyze strategic interactions in different settings. Each subfield – to a varying degree – has seen game-theoretic concepts enter its vocabulary, and students entering the profession need to grasp the potential and limits of game theory. …

Econometrics II

BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, 2014 – 2015 The course will cover the following topics: 1. The Quest for Causality in Econometrics 2. Can We Trust the CIA (Conditional Independence Assumption)? 3. Hidden‐Bias Sensitivity Analysis 4. Instrumental Variables: LATE vs. Structural Interpretations 5. Experimental and Quasi‐Experimental Designs for Causal Inference

Political Economics

BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, 2014 – 2015 How do politics and institutions affect the economy? The course is designed to provide students with an introduction to contemporary political economics. The aim is to understand the main features of contemporary democracies, to explain how economic policies are determined, and to analyze how these …

Empirical Research Methods

BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, 2014 – 2015 The course will introduce students to the main tools used for data analysis and applied empirical research, focusing in particular on the estimation of causal relationships. The methods covered will allow students to address questions that are relevant from a social, economic, and political perspective: …

Reading Group Empirical Political Economics

BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, 2013 – 2014 The aim of the reading group (RG) is to explore some specific topics in empirical economics, with a particular references to recent contributions in the fields of political economics and development economics. The recent “credibility revolution” in empirical economics and the associated quest for the …

Topics in Political Economy

UNIVERSITÀ DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA, 2011 – 2012 The goal of the course is to discuss current topics in political economics, both from a theoretical and from an empirical perspective. This means to study the formation of economic policy from a positive, rather than a normative, point of view. Thus, we …

European Human Resources

BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, 2008 – 2009 This course aims at providing the basic analytical tools needed to understand the role of different institutions in shaping the labor market. We will study both the goals and effects of different labor market institutions such as the regulation of permanent and temporary employ- ment, …