Luca DI CORATO
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Roles
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Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Economics and Commerce
- Telephone
- 041 234 7668
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luca.dicorato@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Applied Economics [ECON-04/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/luca.dicorato(personal record)
- Office
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Department of Economics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.economics
Where: San Giobbe
Office hours
Office hours
Office hours are held in Office A117 every Friday from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Appointments must be booked by email at least 48 hours in advance, stating the topic to be discussed (e.g., a textbook chapter, an exercise, thesis supervision, etc.). Before booking an appointment, please check the Notices section for any changes to the schedule.
During July, office hours are available by appointment only, on a mutually agreed day and time. During August, office hours are suspended.
Thesis Supervision
Bachelor's Theses - I supervise theses in the following fields: Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Natural Resource Economics, and Industrial Economics.
Master's Theses - I supervise theoretical and applied theses on decision-making under uncertainty, particularly in the above fields.
For both bachelor's and master's theses, students are required to submit a 2–3 page proposal including:
- the proposed thesis topic;
- the economic research question to be addressed;
- the proposed methodology (e.g., literature review, theoretical analysis, applied theory, empirical analysis, or other relevant approaches).
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Economia applicata [ECON-04/A]
- Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
- ECONOMIA POLITICA [SECS-P/01]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale, America Latina, Africa Caraibi e Pacifico
- Known languages
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Italiano
(scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
- 2017: Member of Scientific Advisory Board, Economia agro-alimentare/Food Economy, SIEA, Edizioni Franco Angeli, Print ISSN 1126-1668, Online ISSN 1972-4802.
- Participation as referees of national and international research projects
- Research Grants Council (Hong Kong)
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Ambiente Linea:
Ecologia animale/vegetale
Area: Economia Linea: Sistema economico - modelli e metodi
- Auctions (real assets/procurement contracts)
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- Description:
- Auctions (real assets/procurement contracts)
- Keywords:
- Economic theory, Operations research, Industrial economics
- ATECO code:
- [72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
- Externality control and market structure
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- Description:
- Externality control and market structure
- Keywords:
- Economic theory, Environmental economics, Economic planning
- ATECO code:
- [72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
- Management of flexible production systems
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- Description:
- Management of flexible production systems
- Keywords:
- Economic theory, Operations research, Production systems
- ATECO code:
- [72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
- Investment in renewable energy production and exchange
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- Description:
- Investment in renewable energy production and exchange
- Keywords:
- Economic theory, Operations research, Energy technology
- ATECO code:
- [35] - fornitura di energia elettrica, gas, vapore e aria condizionata
- Forest conservation/Land allocative issues
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- Description:
- Forest conservation/Land allocative issues
- Keywords:
- Economic theory, Environmental economics, Agricultural economics
- ATECO code:
- [02] - silvicoltura ed utilizzo di aree forestali
- Contracts under dynamic asymmetric information
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- Description:
- Contracts under dynamic asymmetric information
- Keywords:
- Economic theory, Operations research, Industrial economics
- ATECO code:
- [72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
- Auctions of procurement contracts
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- Auctions of real assets
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- Beliefs about gender inequalities, narratives and support for gender quotas
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/02
- Common Agricultural Policy and land development under uncertainty
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/02
- Economic performance and future perspectives of the Venice flood protection system
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/06
- Other members of the research group:
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Marco BIDOIA
Carlo GIUPPONI
Raffaele PESENTI
- Externality control and market structure
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/03
- Forest conservation and land allocative issues
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/02
- Limited liability under dynamic asymmetric information
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- Optimal hive management under climate uncertainty
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- Real options (financing flexibility/outsourcing)
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- Real options (financing flexibility/outsourcing)
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- Real options (flexible waste management)
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- SSD:
- MAT/09
- Real options (hyperbolic discounting)
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- Real options (long-run investment under uncertain demand)
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- Real options (profit sharing under the threat of nationalization)
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/02
- Renewable energy production and exchange
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- Supply contracting under dynamic asymmetric information
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- The optimal capital structure in a Public Private Partnership under uncertainty
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- The optimal capital structure in a public private partnership under uncertainty
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- SSD:
- SECS-P/01
- TRUSTEE (Towards RUral Synergies and Trade-offs between Economic development and Ecosystem services)
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- Funding body:
- European Commission ( 7th Framework Programme)
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- NS
- Starting date:
- Year: 2013 Length in months: 48
- BioInsure: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services as Insurance against Risks of Future Weather Variability
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- Funding body:
- BECC - Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- NS
- Starting date:
- Year: 2018 Length in months: 0
- Fin4Green - Finance for a Sustainable, Green and Resilient Society Quantitative approaches for a robust assessment and management of risks related to sustainable investing
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- Funding body:
- MIUR - Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca
- Type:
- PRIN
- Role in the project:
- NS
- Starting date:
- Year: 2022 Length in months: 36
- Other members of the research group:
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Monica BILLIO
- Honey BEE VOLatility: An environmental index for assessing climatic risk impact on ecosystems service provision
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- Funding body:
- MIUR - Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca
- Type:
- PRIN
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Sito di progetto:
- /
- Starting date:
- Year: 2023 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
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Gabriella BUFFA
Edy FANTINATO
Marco LI CALZI
- Public procurement contracts and public-private partnerships for the sustainable maintenance of natural resources: incentives, risk transfer and real options
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- Funding body:
- UniPD
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- NS
- Starting date:
- Year: 2017 Length in months: 24
- WaterLANDS: Water-based solutions for carbon storage, people and wilderness
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- Funding body:
- Commissione Europea (H2020 Green Deal Call)
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Sito di progetto:
- https://waterlands.eu/
- Starting date:
- Year: 2021 Length in months: 60
- Other members of the research group:
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Stefano BATTISTON
Monica BILLIO
Carlo GIUPPONI
Publication highlights
Luca DI CORATO; Dimitrios Zormpas Investing in farming under uncertainty and redistributive support , DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES (ATHīNA), Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, vol. 2026_06 (ISSN 1791-3144)
- URL correlato 2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5113418
Luca DI CORATO, Federica Esposito, Natalia Montinari Beliefs about Gender Inequalities, Narratives and Support for Gender Quotas , vol. 1220 (ISSN 2282-6483)
- URL correlato 2026,
Working paper - ARCA card: 10278/5113910
Luca DI CORATO; Michele Moretto Dynamic Adverse Selection with Flow Limited Liability: A Closed-Form Approach to Price Regulation , vol. 09.2026 (ISSN 2037-1209)
- URL correlato 2026,
Working paper - ARCA card: 10278/5113248
Luca DI CORATO; Dimitrios ZORMPAS Irreversible Investment with Endogenous Scale under Kinked Subsidy Schedules , vol. 07 (ISSN 1827-3580)
- URL correlato 2026,
Working paper - ARCA card: 10278/5113247
Luca Di Corato; Michele Moretto Supply contracting under dynamic asymmetric cost information , vol. 04.2024 (ISSN 2037-1209)
- URL correlato 2024,
Working paper - ARCA card: 10278/5049503
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Research interests
My main research interests are in the fields of Real Options and Resource Economics. I have worked on contract design for the provision of environmental services, investment in flexible production systems, investment in renewable energy sources, forest conservation and foreign direct investment. I have recently focused on land allocative issues and auctions of procurement contracts and real assets.
Current position
Associate Professor (Applied Economics), Dept. of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
National Scientific Habilitation for Full Professorship in: i) Economic Policy (13-A2, SECS-P/02, 04/06/21-04/06/32) and ii) Public Finance (11/12/23 - 11/12/34).
National Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professorship in: i) Economics (13-A1, SECS-P/01, 26/07/18-26/07/29), ii) Economic Policy (13-A2, SECS-P/02, 23/12/14-23/12/25), iii) Public Finance (13-A3, SECS-P/03, 26/11/14-26/11/25), iv) Applied Economics (13-A4, SECS-P/06, 09/10/18-09/10/29) and v) Mathematical methods of economics, finance and actuarial sciences (13-D4, SECS-S/06, 08/10/18-08/10/29).
Previous positions
- Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (RTD-b, Applied Economics), Dept. of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 12/2018 – 12/2021.
- Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (RTD-b, Economics), Dipartimento Jonico, University of Bari, 02/2017 - 12/2018.
- Docent in Economics, Dept. of Economics, SLU, Uppsala, 10/2014 - 01/2017.
- Assistant professor, Dept. of Economics, SLU, Uppsala, 10/2010 - 10/2014.
- Post-doc research fellow, Dept. of Economics, SLU, Uppsala, 10/2008 - 10/2010.
Education
- 2003 - 2008: Joint PhD in Economics, University of York and University of Padova. Thesis: “Essays on information gathering and the use of natural resources”.
- 1995 - 2002: Laurea in Economics, Bocconi University, Milan.
Conference, workshops and seminars: 2023: IAERE conference (Napoli, Italy), ASSET conference (Lisbon, Portugal); 2022: Conference on Economic Design (Padova, Italy), EAERE conference (Rimini, Italy), ASSET conference (Rethymno, Greece); 2018: Real Options Conference (Dusseldorf, Germany), ASSET conference (Florence, Italy); 2017: Christian-Albrechts-Universität (Kiel, Germany); 2016: ASSET conference (Thessaloniki, Greece), INRA-Trustee final meeting (Dijon, France), 13th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (Lund, Sweden), IAERE conference (Bologna, Italy); 2015: Workshop “Taxes, Subsidies and Regulation in Dynamic Models" (Brescia, Italy), Conference on Economic Design (Istanbul, Turkey), Agriculture for Development Conference (Uppsala, Sweden), IAERE conference (Padova, Italy), AgriFood Economics Centre (Lund, Sweden); 2014: Workshop "Industrial Organization: Theory, Empirics and Experiments" (Lecce, Italy), EAAE conference (Ljubljana, Slovenia); 2013: AAEA & CAES Joint Annual Meeting (Washington, USA), Nordic workshop "The forest sector in the bio-based economy" (Uppsala, Sweden); 2012: Workshop "The Economics of Irreversible Choices" (Brescia, Italy), Real Options Conference (London, United Kingdom); 2011: EAAE conference (Zurich, Switzerland), EAERE conference (Roma, Italy), International Society of Dynamic Games workshop (Padova, Italy); 2010: National Conference of Swedish Economists (Lund, Sweden), BIOECON Conference (Venezia, Italy), World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (Montreal, Canada), International Energy Workshop at KTH (Stockholm, Sweden); 2009: CESifo workshop “Operating uncertainty using real options” (San Servolo, Venezia, Italy), EARIE conference (Ljubljana, Slovenia). 2008: Jornadas de Economia Industrial (Reus, Spain), EAERE conference (Gothenburg, Sweden), AFSE Thematic Meeting (Toulouse, France), Oenometrie XV (Collioure, France), RES PhD Presentation Meeting (London, United Kingdom); 2007: Giornata Levi-Cases doctoral seminars (Padova, Italy), BIOECON conference (Cambridge, United Kingdom); 2006: BIOECON conference (Cambridge, United Kingdom), Giornata Levi-Cases doctoral seminars (Padova, Italy).
Awards: 2011: Best conference paper award at the 13th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, August 30 - September 2, for the paper “Optimal Conservation Policy under Imperfect Intergenerational Altruism”; 2009: “Levi Cases” Award (first prize) for PhD thesis in Environmental and Energy Economics, Centro Levi Cases, University of Padova.
Referee for: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Land Use Policy, Research In Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Economic Systems, Economics Bulletin, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Ecological Economics, Economics Bulletin, Energies, Energy Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, German Journal of Agricultural Economics, International Forestry Review, Journal of Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, EAAE conference 2011 and 2014, IAERE conference 2015, ASSET conference 2022, Research Grants Council (Hong Kong), Research in Transportation Economics.
For an updated version (in English) of my cv please have a look here.
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