Mario PADULA

Position
Full Professor
Telephone
041 234 9181
E-mail
mpadula@unive.it
Academic discipline
Economics [ECON-01/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/mpadula(personal record)
Office
Department of Economics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.economics
Where: San Giobbe

Office hours

Office hours room 128 Building A Department of Economics
Wednesday 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Economia politica [ECON-01/A]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
ECONOMIA POLITICA [SECS-P/01]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale
Known languages
Italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: base parlato: base)
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Economia Linea: Sistema economico - modelli e metodi
Area: Economia Linea: Sistema economico - politiche e gestione
Area: Economia
Pensioni, risparmio, scelte di portafoglio delle famiglie, alfabetismo finanziario
Description:
Consumo, credito al consumo, indebitamento delle famiglie
Keywords:
Consumer economics, Labour economics, Macroeconomics
ATECO code:
[65] - assicurazioni, riassicurazioni e fondi pensione (escluse le assicurazioni sociali obbligatorie)
Financial Literacy Investment and Saving Decisions
SSD:
SECS-P/05
Pension Uncertainty and Demand for Retirement Saving
SSD:
SECS-P/01
Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House: Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement
SSD:
SECS-P/01
Survey Instruments and the Reports of Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys
SSD:
SECS-P/05
The Life Cycle Effects of Pension Reforms: A Structural Approach
SSD:
SECS-P/01
The Portfolio Effect of Pension Reforms: Evidence from Italy
SSD:
SECS-P/01
Using Bounds to Investigate Household Debt Repayment Behaviour
SSD:
SECS-P/01
Analfabetismo finanziario. Limiti cognitivi ed invecchiamento della popolazione.
Funding body:
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2009 Length in months: 24
Le conseguenze economiche dell'invecchiamento della popolazione
Funding body:
MIUR
Type:
FIRB/FIR/SIR
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2010 Length in months: 36
PRIN, L'impatto economico dell'invecchiamento della popolazione in Europa
Funding body:
MIUR
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
http://cercauniversita.cineca.it/php5/prin/cerca.php?codice=2010T8XAXB
Starting date:
Year: 2012 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Agar BRUGIAVINI
Giacomo PASINI
SHARE
Funding body:
EU
Type:
VII Programma Quadro - Capacities
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
http://www.share-project.org/
Starting date:
Year: 2011 Length in months: 48
Other members of the research group:
Agar BRUGIAVINI
Giacomo PASINI
SHARE - M4
Funding body:
EU
Type:
VII Programma Quadro - Capacities
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
http://www.share-project.org/
Starting date:
Year: 2009 Length in months: 48
Other members of the research group:
Agar BRUGIAVINI
Giacomo PASINI

Publication highlights

Avendano, Mauricio; Knapp, David; Padula, Mario; Pasini, Giacomo Harmonizing measures of cross-country policies for aging research: Applications to education, pension, and long-term care systems in THE JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, vol. 1 (ISSN 1079-5014)
DOI 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5109432

Mario Padula; Monica Paiella PREVIDENZA, RISPARMIO E RICCHEZZA PREVIDENZIALE , FAMIGLIE E RISPARMIO Come cambiano le scelte finanziarie degli italiani, Bologna, SOCIETÀ EDITRICE IL MULINO, pp. 211-260 (ISBN 9788815395405)
2025, Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5106800

Piera Bello; Marius Cziriak; Mario Padula Fee-ling Stuck? Provider Choice in a Mandatory Defined Contribution Pension System , vol. 26 (ISSN 1827-3580)
2025, Working paper - ARCA card: 10278/5107567

Daminato, Claudio; Padula, Mario The Life-Cycle Effects of Pension Reforms: a Structural Approach in JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, vol. 22, pp. 355-392 (ISSN 1542-4766)
DOI 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5037525

Orazio Attanasio, Kieran P. Larkin, Morten Ravn, Mario Padula (S)Cars and the Great Recession in ECONOMETRICA, vol. 90, pp. 2319-2356 (ISSN 1468-0262)
DOI 2022, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3752101

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Curriculum vitae

Professor of Economics, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Past chairman of Commissione di Vigilanza sui Fondi Pensione (May 2016-March 2023)
Research Fellow, CSEF

 

Academic positions held
Assistant professor of Economics, January 2001-December 2003, Università di Salerno.
Associate professor of Econometrics, January 2004-October 2007, Università di Salerno.
Associate professor of Econometrics, November 2007-December 2015 , Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia.
Professor of Economic Policy, January 2015-March 2016, Università della Svizzera italiana.

Visiting Positions
Stanford University, Department of Economics, academic year 2009-2010
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Department of Money and Macroeconomics, academic year 2012-2013

Honors
Fulbright Scholarship recipient, academic year 2009-2010

Research Interests
Consumption, savings and pensions; household portfolio choices; applied micro-econometrics; public economics; labor economics; health economics; finance and growth.

Education
First Degree in Economics, Università Commerciale“Luigi Bocconi”, 1995 (110/110, Magna cum Laude). First supervisor: Prof. Marco Pagano. Second supervisor: Prof. Carlo A. Favero.
Master in Economics (MEc), Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi”, 1996.
Doctorate in Economics, University of Naples “Federico II”, thesis title: “Durable Goods and Intertemporal Choices”, 2000. Supervisor: Prof. Tullio Jappelli. Committee: Prof. Sergio Desefanis, Prof. Pietro Riechlin, Prof. Guglielmo Weber.
Ph.D in Economics, University College London, thesis title: “Household investment behaviour: empirical investigations of durable consumption, returns to education and borrowing restrictions”, 2001. Supervisor: Prof Orazio P. Attanasio. Committee: Prof. Martin Browning, Prof. Jörn-Steffen Pischke.

 

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