DELoS courses will be held throughout the first year. They are organized in three terms, each of them comprising 6 weeks of courses and two weeks of exams:

- the first term (Nov-Dec) focuses on levelling the playing field providing (i) a refresh of micro, macro, statistics and econometrics basics, (ii) some topics in micro, macro and econometrics, and (iii) an introduction to research methods in social sciences;

- the second term (Jan-Feb) focuses on (i) research methods relevant for the two curricula and (ii) some topics in development economics and local systems;

- the third term (Mar-May) focuses on advanced research topics in development economics and local systems.

The course list is as follows (37 cycle): 

• First term

 

Courses	Instructor(s)	Curriculum
Analysis of poverty and inequality	Renato Paniccià	DEV
Econometrics 1	Leonardo Grilli	DEV, LOC
Development Macroeconomics	Marco Missaglia	DEV
Ecosystem and Innovation	Silvia Rita Sedita	LOC
Insitutional Economics	Ermanno Celeste Tortia	LOC
Mathematical Methods of Economic Growth	Gianluca Iannucci	DEV
Microeconomic Data for Empirical   Research	Romano, Carraro, Ciani, Scognamillo, Tiberti	DEV
Strategic Management and Business	Tommaso Pucci	LOC

  

• Second term

 

Courses	Instructor(s)	Curriculum
Analysis of inequality	Bruno Martorano	DEV
Analysis of poverty and inequality alleviation policies	Luca Tiberti	DEV
Behavioral Economics	Chiara Rapallini	DEV
Development and Environment	Angelo Antoci, Simone   Borghese, Elisa Ticci	DEV
Econometrics 2	Fabrizio Cipollini	DEV, LOC
Economics of malnutrition	Donato Romano,   N. Mittal	DEV
Economy-wide Models for Policy Analysis	Donato Romano,   Benedetto Rocchi,   Emanuele Ferrari	DEV
International Business and Entrepreneurship	Simone Guercini	LOC
Local industrial Development	Marco Bellandi,   Annalisa Caloffi	LOC
New paths of local developments and cultural creativity	Luciana Lazzeretti	LOC
Poverty Traps, Vulnerability and Resilience	Donato Romano,   Pierluigi Montalbano,	DEV
Quality Market Research	Silvia Ranfagni	DEV, LOC
Social network analysis	Francesco Capone	DEV, LOC
Spatial Analysis and GIS Lab	Filippo Randelli,   Federico Martellozzo	DEV, LOC
Trade and poverty	Pierluigi Montalbano	DEV

• Third term

 

Courses	Instructor(s)	Curriculum
Agriculture in economic development	Donato Romano	DEV
Applied Natural Language Processing in Social Science	Matteo Devigili	LOC
Cultural norms in economic development	Sylvain Dessy	DEV
Economics of Corruption	Emma Galli	DEV
Empirical analysis of vulnerability	Marco Letta	DEV
Global value chains	Giorgia Giovannetti	DEV
Innovation policies	Annalisa Caloffi	LOC
International Financial Economics	Giulio Cifarelli	DEV
Local development in LDCs	Mario Biggeri	DEV/LOC
Machine Learning for Begginers	Rafael Boix	LOC
Population studies in low and high income countries: concepts, theories and methodological approaches	Elena Pirani, Valentina   Tocchioni	DEV
Topic Course on Computational Economics	Giorgio Ricchiuti	DEV

 

 

 

last update: 21-June-2022