Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) - Project Coordinator - Italy
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC), founded in 1921, is the largest private university in Italy. UCSC's extensive research activity is carried out through 62 departments and 93 research centres. The research group involved in this project is specialized in macroeconomics, monetary and international economics, with an emphasis on macro-dynamic models with heterogeneous agents.
Main tasks in the project: UCSC will play a key role in developing an agent-based model of the macro-economy at a fine grained level. The organization is also responsible for the administrative and financial issues related to the project implementation and is in charge for keeping contacts between the consortium members and the EC. UCSC will also contribute in building the database needed to test the financial and macro-economic model.
Key UCSC personnel working on this project:
Domenico DELLI GATTI, Full Professor of Economics
He has published extensively (around 50 articles) in refereed journals and is the author or co-author of three books. He was coordinator of POLHIA, a research project financed by EC under the FP7 (www.polhia.eu). He is also involved in the FP7 SSH projects FINNOV and FOC and has participated in the FP7 ICT project EURACE (as a member of the UPM unit).
His most recent books are Emergent Macroeconomics and Macroeconomics from the Bottom Up.
Marco LOSSANI, Professor of Economics
M.A. Yale University, 1988; PhD in Economics UCSC, 1989. Director of the Istituto di Teoria Economica e Metodi Quantitativi (ITEMQ) and of the Laboratorio Analisi Monetaria (LAM). His main research interests focus on International economics.
Gianluca FEMMINIS, Associate Professor of Economics
He obtained his doctorate at Università di Pavia in 1993 and subsequently obtained his Ph.D. at Warwick University (UK) in 1996. In 1997 he was visiting fellow at the Economics Department of Princeton University. From 1998 to 2004 he taught Macroeconomics at the Masters Program in Economics and Finance (MEFIN) of Università Cattolica.
Angelo BAGLIONI, Associate Professor of Microeconomics and Economics of Information
He is on the faculty of the Doctoral Program in Financial Markets and Institutions and member of the Scientific and Steering Committees of the Monetary Analysis Laboratory. He teaches Microeconomics of Banking in the Master's in Economics and Banking programme at the University of Siena.
Luca COLOMBO, Associate Professor (Economics)
He obtained an M.A. in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) in 1997 and in 2004 he was awarded the Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitaet Bielefeld (Germany).
Maurizio MOTOLESE, Full Professor (Economic Policy)
He obtained a Ph. D. in Economics at the University of Bologna in 1999. Between 1995 and 1998 he was visiting scholar at Stanford University. His main research interests are in Uncertainty and General Equilibrium Theory, Expectations Formation Heterogeneous Expectations, Rational Beliefs, Public and Monetary Economics, Financial Markets, Dynamic Economic Systems, Computational Economics.
Tiziana ASSENZA, Researher
She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics in 2006. In 2007 she was post doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. She has been visiting scholar at the New York Federal Reserve and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Since May 2010 she is a permanent researcher at UCSC and since January 2008 she is Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam. Her research is focused mainly on Agent Based Modelling and Experimental Macroeconomics.
Jakob GRAZZINI, Researcher
He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics in March 2012 at the University of Turin. His research is focused on building empirically based, agent-based models applied to economics and finance. In particular he is interested in the estimation of agent-based models and in the use of experimental economics results to build of agent based models.
Alessandro Gobbi, Researcher
He obtained a Ph.D. in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2011. His research interests are time series econometrics and monetary economics.