Department of Economics


Giacomo Calzolari

Professor Giacomo Calzolari joins EUI as Professor of Economics after 15 years at the University of Bologna. Professor Calzolari spoke to EUI Life about his future research here, and his love of competition policy and banking regulation. “I’m teaching Microeconomics 1, which is the first course in microeconomics that students face at entry, with maths, […]

Vilfredo Pareto Prize for the Best Thesis in Economics

In 2017, the Vilfredo Pareto Prize for the Best Thesis in Economics will be awarded to Vincent Maurin for his thesis on ‘Information and credit frictions in financial markets’. The award pays tribute to Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher who lived and worked in Florence and Fiesole between 1882 and […]

ECO Thesis Prize awarded to Pavel Brendler

Pavel Brendler, who defended his thesis Essays on income inequality, political inequality and income redistribution in the U.S. under the supervision of Professor Andrea Mattozzi, will receive the 2016 Vilfredo Pareto Prize for the Best Thesis in Economics. The prize, established in 2015 by the EUI Department of Economics, honors Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian sociologist, economist, political […]

Andrea Galeotti joins Economics Department

The EUI is delighted to announce that Andrea Galeotti will be taking up a Professorship in the Department of Economics. He comes to the EUI from the University of Essex, UK, where he was Professor of Economics. Galeotti’s main area of research is the economics of networks, and in 2011 he was awarded a major ERC-Starting […]

Economics job market announcement

The Department of Economics would like to congratulate its researchers and fellows for the excellent results in the 2013-2014 Job Market

New book by ECO professor

Professor Matthias Sutter’s new book “Die Entdeckung der Geduld” (The discovery of patience) was published on 1 March

EUI 'family' at the IMF

In March EUI Life reported on the community of EUI alumni on staff at the European Central Bank.  There is also a sizable group of alumni who are working at the International Monetary Fund. Thanks to alumna Lusine Lusinyan, we are happy to provide a round-up of EUI alumni working around the world for the […]