Teaching
English Courses
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
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
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
Econometrics II
BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, 2014 – 2015 The course will cover the following topics:1. The Quest for Causality in Econometrics2. Can We Trust the CIA (Conditional Independence Assumption)?3. Hidden‐Bias Sensitivity Analysis4. Instrumental Variables: LATE vs. Structural Interpretations5.
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
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
Formal Political Theory I
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2017 – 2018Game 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
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
Big & Smart Data Analysis
EUI, SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNMENT, 2023 – 2024Big data are everywhere, from big firms to big government. Policy leaders mustknow the use (and misuse) of data, either to regulate them or to use them todesign
Corsi in Italiano
Econometria
BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, 2008 – 2014 Il corso si propone di introdurre lo studente alla comprensione e all’impiego dei metodi quantitativi in economia. Nel corso vengono trattati il modello lineare e le sue generalizzazioni; la teoria
Economia e Politiche del Lavoro
BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, 2010 – 2011 Lo scopo del corso è quello di fornire gli strumenti analitici di base per comprendere il ruolo delle varie istituzioni che influenzano il mercato del lavoro. Il corso si prefigge
Economia del Lavoro e delle Risorse Umane
BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, 2017 – 2018 Il corso fornisce gli strumenti essenziali per comprendere i meccanismi che regolano il funzionamento del mercato del lavoro e le decisioni interne alle imprese nell’utilizzo della propria forza lavoro. In
Mamma li Robot!
Al festival del libro di Ragusa “A Tutto Volume” 2023 (atuttovolume.com) ho tenuta la ‘Prima Lezione di Economia’ (beh, non per me…) sul tema automazione e lavoro. I Robot ruberanno davvero il lavoro a noi