The research of the Department of Economics is conducted in several main areas of the discipline of economics and finance. They can be divided into the following categories:
Microeconomics
- Competitiveness of firms
- Competitiveness of sectors
Development and International Economics
- Internationalization of firms
- International trade
- Economic integration
- Global Value Chains
- International competitiveness of economies
- Technological progress, technological specialization
- Economic specialization and diversification
- Impact of trade, integration processes, and technology on labor markets and productivity
- Economic growth, economic development, empirical productivity analysis
- Countries dependent on natural resources
- Traditional and modern growth mechanisms
- Trajectories of trade diversification
- Processes of digital technology diffusion
- Determinants of socio-economic development
- Structural changes in Central and Eastern European economies
- Functional specialization of Central and Eastern European countries
- Energy transformation of Central and Eastern European countries
- Sustainable development
Other Macroeconomic Issues
- Monetary policy
- Fiscal policy
Other Topics
- Technological substitution and convergence, high-tech brands, network effects
- Post-Keynesian economics
- Unemployment gap
- Behavioral economics
- Digital economy, digital skills, AI, machine learning
- Energy economics
- Energy policy
- Economic policies
- Environmental economics
- Energy transformations
- Responsible investing
- Financial innovations
- FinTech
- Ethics of finance
- Economic history
- Commodity markets in historical and contemporary perspectives
- Economic analysis of football clubs in Italy