Ideally, the candidate should have a Master's degree in Economics, with good quantitative and programming skills.

The PhD student will have the chance to take part in a group of students and researchers collaborating on similar topics with Eugenio Caverzasi and his co-authors at the Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona), Greenwhich University, University Jaume I, (Castellon), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa).The project will be carried out in collaboration with colleagues of the Department of Economics of the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria and with other members of the Board of the Ph.D. Program in Methods and Models for Economic Decisions (MMED), for which Eugenio Caverzasi is a lecturer and member of the board, with among others professor Elena Maggi, an active member of the PhD-SDC network.For the modelization of the non-financial sector and of the impacts of economic activities on the environment, the Ph.D. Student will also have the possibility to collaborate with professor Mauro Guglielmin from the Department of Applied and Theoretical sciences and professor Nicoletta Cannone from the Department of Science and High Technology.Moreover, the Economic team of the Department of Economics collaborates with several national and international universities, such as the Polytechnic University of Milan, the University of Padova, Venice International University, IUAV Venice, the University of Torino, the University of Milano-Bicocca, the University of Lugano, the Joint Research Center, the University of West of England Bristol, and with the Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena and the Hohenheim University, specialized in bioeconomy.