Antonio PERUZZI

CV- ANTONIO PERUZZI

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Economics
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/antonio-peruzzi/
Email: antonio.peruzzi@unive.it
GitHub: https://github.com/BayesianEcon

Research Interests

Bayesian analysis
Latent space models for networks
Dynamic network models
Online social networks
Complex networks in economics and finance
Bayesian econometrics

Current Position

April 2024–Present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

Research fellowship within the PNRR GRINS project.

Previous Positions

November 2023–March 2024
Senior Scientist, Institute of Statistics, University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

November 2018–February 2019
Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

ARENA Project, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Education

September 2019–May 2024
Ph.D. in Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Supervisors: Monica Billio and Roberto Casarin.

Visiting period: Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, 2022–2023.

Thesis title: “Dynamic Network Modelling: Inference and Prediction with Socioeconomic Applications.”

September 2016–November 2018
Master’s Degree in Economics and Finance, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.

Supervisors: Monica Billio, Walter Quattrociocchi and Fabiana Zollo.

Thesis title: “How News Diffusion and Sentiment Affect Financial Markets: The Case of the Italian Financial Community on Twitter.”

September 2016–November 2018
Honour School, Ca’ Foscari International College

Minor: Digital Humanities.

Supervisor: Michele Tamma.

Thesis title: “Venetian Luxury Hotels: Social Media and Revenue Management, an Exploited Opportunity?”

September 2013–July 2016
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.

Journal Articles

Casarin, Roberto, Peruzzi, Antonio, and Steel, Mark F. J., 2025. “Media Bias and Polarization through the Lens of a Markov Switching Latent Space Network Model.” The Annals of Applied Statistics, 19(4), 3416–3437.
https://doi.org/10.1214/25-AOAS2069

Galeazzi, Alessandro, Peruzzi, Antonio, Brugnoli, Emanuele, Delmastro, Marco, and Zollo, Fabiana, 2024. “Unveiling the Hidden Agenda: Biases in News Reporting and Consumption.” PNAS Nexus, 3(11), pgae474.
https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae474

Casarin, Roberto, and Peruzzi, Antonio, 2024. “A Dynamic Latent-Space Model for Asset Clustering.” Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 28(2), 379–402.
https://doi.org/10.1515/snde-2022-0111

Cinelli, Matteo, Peruzzi, Antonio, Schmidt, Ana Lucía, Villa, Roberta, Costa, Enrico, Quattrociocchi, Walter, and Zollo, Fabiana, 2022. “Promoting Engagement with Quality Communication in Social Media.” PLOS ONE, 17(10), e0275534.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275534

Schmidt, Ana L., Peruzzi, Antonio, Scala, Antonio, Cinelli, Matteo, Pomerantsev, Peter, Applebaum, Anne, Gaston, Sophia, Fusi, Nicole, Peterson, Zachary, Severgnini, Giuseppe, et al., 2020. “Measuring Social Response to Different Journalistic Techniques on Facebook.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7(1).
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0507-3

Cinelli, Matteo, Conti, Mauro, Finos, Livio, Grisolia, Francesco, Kralj Novak, Petra, Peruzzi, Antonio, Tesconi, Maurizio, Zollo, Fabiana, and Quattrociocchi, Walter, 2019. “(Mis)Information Operations.” Journal of Information Warfare, 18(3), 83–98.
https://www.jinfowar.com/journal-issue/volume-18-issue-3

Peruzzi, Antonio, Quattrociocchi, Walter, Zollo, Fabiana, and Schmidt, Ana Lucía, 2018. “From Confirmation Bias to Echo-Chambers: A Data-Driven Approach.” Sociologia e Politiche Sociali, 3, 47–74.
https://doi.org/10.3280/SP2018-003004

Peruzzi, Antonio, Zollo, Fabiana, Quattrociocchi, Walter, and Scala, Antonio, 2018. “How News May Affect Markets’ Complex Structure: The Case of Cambridge Analytica.” Entropy, 20(10), 765.
https://doi.org/10.3390/e20100765

Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings

Casarin, Roberto, Corradin, Fausto, and Peruzzi, Antonio, 2025. “A Comparison of Data-Driven Synthetic Performance Indicators for Default Prediction.” In New Perspectives in Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance, pp. 74–85. Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05551-4_7

Casarin, Roberto, Corradin, Fausto, and Peruzzi, Antonio, 2025. “ISP Index: A Parsimonious Method to Predict Defaults.” In Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society, pp. 83–94. Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03042-9_8

Peruzzi, Antonio, and Casarin, Roberto, 2022. “Time-Varying Assets Clustering via Identity-Link Latent-Space Infinite Mixture: An Application on DAX Components.” In Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance: MAF 2022, pp. 371–376. Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99638-3_60

Discussion Papers

Casarin, Roberto, and Peruzzi, Antonio, 2024. “Comment on ‘Sparse Bayesian Factor Analysis when the Number of Factors is Unknown’ by S. Frühwirth-Schnatter, D. Hosszejni, and H. F. Lopes.” Bayesian Analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1214/24-BA1423

Working Papers

Bassetti, Federico, Casarin, Roberto, Iacopini, Matteo, and Peruzzi, Antonio, 2026. “A Spatiotemporal Gamma Shot Noise Cox Process.” arXiv:2308.08481. Revise and resubmit at Advances in Applied Probability.

Carallo, Giulia, Casarin, Roberto, and Peruzzi, Antonio, 2026. “Generalized Poisson Dynamic Network Models.” arXiv:2604.05838. Submitted.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.05838

Casarin, Roberto, Iacopini, Matteo, and Peruzzi, Antonio, 2026. “A Bayesian Dynamic Latent Space Model for Weighted Networks.” arXiv:2603.24201. Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Econometrics.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.24201

Billio, Monica, Casarin, Roberto, Corradin, Fausto, and Peruzzi, Antonio, 2025. “Bayesian Outlier Detection for Matrix-Variate Models.” arXiv:2503.19515.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.19515

Casarin, Roberto, Peruzzi, Antonio, and Raggi, Davide, 2025. “Multiple Equilibria and the Phillips Curve: Do Agents Always Underreact?” Working Paper No. 2025/10, Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ven:wpaper:2025:10

Casarin, Roberto, and Peruzzi, Antonio, 2024. “A Multiple Random Scan Strategy for Latent Space Models.” arXiv:2408.11725.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.11725

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant – Econometrics, Master’s Degree, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Academic year: 2025–2026

Teaching Assistant – Introduction to Econometrics, Bachelor’s Degree, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Academic years: 2020–2021, 2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2024–2025 and 2025–2026

Educational Assistant – Minor in Data, Information and Society, Ca’ Foscari International College
Academic years: 2022–2023, 2023–2024, 2024–2025 and 2025–2026

Educational Assistant – Minor in Digital Humanities, Ca’ Foscari International College
Academic years: 2020–2021 and 2021–2022

Conferences and Workshops

2025
Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee, “High-Dimensional Data, Networks, and Beyond,” Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 5 December 2025.

2025
Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee, “Advances in Macroeconometrics,” Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 29 October 2025.

2022
Member of the Organizing Committee, SasCa 2022 Ph.D. Conference, Venice, 8–9 September 2022.

Academic Service

2024
Staff member, ISBA World Meeting 2024, Venice, 1–7 July 2024.

2021–2022
Member of the Organizing Committee, Internal Seminar Series, Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

2019
Staff member, Kids University 2019, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 20–24 May 2019.

Awards and Grants

Finalist, SIE Best Ph.D. Thesis in Economics Award, 2025 (top six finalists).
SELISI Contribution, 2025, for the organization of the conference “High-Dimensional Data, Networks, and Beyond.”
ESOBE Young Researcher Travel Grant, 2024.
ISBA Best Poster Presentation Award, 2024.
BayesComp Travel Grant, 2023.
ISBA Best Poster Presentation Award, 2022.
ISBA Junior Researcher Travel Grant, 2022.
Premio Faini, 2018, for a top-three Master’s thesis in Economics.
Premio Rispoli, 2016, Ca’ Foscari International College Grant.

Project Proposals

BLAST – Bayesian Latent Space Network Models for Text-Informed Macro-Financial Monitoring and Forecasting. Proposal submitted under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Postdoctoral Fellowship call HORIZON-MSCA-2026-PF-01.

Application Development

QUESTYourself, developed within the QUEST Project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 824634.
https://questyourself2.shinyapps.io/49b94e7395df4d98882b48cd608f16a2/

Referee Activity

Referee for Annals of Operations Research; Applied Network Science; Archives of Public Health; EPJ Data Science; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; Journal of Complex Networks; Journal of Computational Social Science; Journal of Financial Econometrics; Scientific Reports; and The Annals of Applied Statistics.

Reviewer for the ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science Student Paper Competition, 2026.

Computer Skills

Programming languages: R, Python, C++, Stan, MATLAB and Processing.

Databases and financial platforms: MySQL and Bloomberg. Bloomberg Market Concepts Certificate.

Econometric and statistical software: Stata, EViews and gretl.

Languages

Italian: native speaker
English: C1
German: A2.2