"Our Department is firmly at the top of national and international research rankings, with an outstanding ability to attract funds: we recently won two calls funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and received funding as a Department of Excellence for the second time. (...)
These are some of the features that make us an attractive destination for researchers worldwide."
Giacomo Pasini,
Director, Department of Economics
Department of Excellence
The Department of Economics has been declared one of the 180 Italian Departments of Excellence for the second consecutive time. VIVA ("Venice Initiative on Vulnerability Analysis") is an innovative research and educational programme that will be implemented thanks to the Ministry of University and Research funding for the Departments of Excellence programme. The aim of VIVA is to study how to deal with the issues related to social and economic systems in transition, with a special focus on vulnerable situations that might be exacerbated by exposure to exogenous shocks, increasing inequality in multiple contexts (economic, environmental, demographic, health, etc.)
Our research
DeliverEEM - Delivering the Energy Efficient Mortgages Ecosystem
Researcher: Monica Billio
Length: 01/10/2024 - 30/09/2026
FORTIC - From remains Of the war to the aRchiTecture of peace in cross-border area of Italy-Croatia
Researcher: Nicola Camatti
Length: 01/04/2024 - 30/09/2026
EUTOPIA HEALTH - Empowering Widening universities in EUTOPIA alliance to foster academic excellence in Health
Researcher: Enrica Croda
Length: 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2028
PLANET4HEALTH - Translating Science into Policy: A Multisectoral Approach to Adaptation and Mitigation of Adverse Effects of Vector-Borne Diseases, Environmental Pollution and Climate Change on Planetary Health
Researcher: Stefano Campostrini
Length: 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2027
Legal uncertainties surrounding financial innovation and their consequences on the effectiveness of Anti-Money Laundering policies - Coordinating EU reforms with the Italian regulatory and supervisory frameworks
Researcher: Andrea Minto
Length: 12/12/2023 - 11/12/2025
Casarin, Roberto; Costantini, Mauro; Osuntuyi, Anthony
Bayesian nonparametric panel Markov-switching GARCH models
in JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & ECONOMIC STATISTICS, 2024
DOI 10.1080/07350015.2023.2166049
Gottardi, Piero; Mezzetti, Claudio
Shuttle diplomacy
in JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY, 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.jet.2023.105794
Pelizzon, Loriana; Riedel, Max; Simon, Zorka; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.
Collateral eligibility of corporate debt in the Eurosystem
in JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.103777
Lancia, Francesco; Russo, Alessia; Worrall, Tim
Intergenerational Insurance
in JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 2024
DOI 10.1086/730206
Auster, Sarah; Gottardi, Piero
Sorting versus screening in decentralized markets with adverse selection
in JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY, 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.jet.2024.105883
Our campus
In Venice, you will find our San Giobbe Economics Campus, which includes a residential complex for students, a cafeteria, a library, study areas, classrooms, and offices for faculty and staff.
The Treviso Campus (30 km from Venice) serves as the School of Economics, Languages and Entrepreneurship (SELE) headquarters. It focuses on developing advanced skills in economics, management, languages, and culture, with a special emphasis on businesses, markets, national and international relations, and interlinguistic and intercultural relationships.
News
Mobility grants - Global Quant Strats Conference 2025
The Department of Economics appoints 5 mobility grants to partially cover the costs of travel and accommodation to participate in the 2025 edition of Global Quant Strats Conference, which will take place in London on October 14th-15th , 2025. Deadline to apply: Friday, September 5th, 2025, 12.00 pm (CEST).
All info are available on the webpage Corsi > Premi e borse [ITA]. The grants are funded with a contribution by Banca delle Terre Venete.
Early start of classes for the Economics curriculum - QEM
The classes for the courses Macroeconomics I, Microeconomics I, Optimization e Probability Theory of the Economics – QEM curriculum will start on September 8th, 2025. Schedule is available on the page of each course.
Call for chairs of excellence and visiting positions at the Department of Economics
The Department of Economics has opened a call for applications to fill positions of Chair of Excellence for the academic years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027. The Chairs can range from a minimum period of one month to a maximum which includes the whole academic year. The deadline for applications is set on May 31st, 2025.
Prof Luiza Bialasiewicz: 'Trump and the divided geographies of the US vote'
Donald Trump has won and he will now become the 47th President of the United States. He trounced the Democratic candidate and current vice-president Kamala Harris by millions of votes. But what persuaded US voters to cast their ballots for a former president, who has been impeached twice and prosecuted thousands of times? We talked about it with Luiza Bialasiewicz, professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Ca' Foscari Department of Economics, a US citizen with an international academic background and former director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.