People

DISEI – Deputy director

Areas of expertise: Heterogenous Agents Models, Non-linearities, Bounded Rationality, International Macro-Economics, Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization

Biosketch: Giorgio Ricchiuti is an Associate Professor in Political Economy at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence (Italy) where he teaches Macroeconomics and Computational Economics. Since the beginning of 2016, he is also fellow of the Complexity Lab in Economics (CLE) at Catholic University in Milan. His research is focused on both empirical and theoretical analysis in International and Industrial Economics, with a focus on Computational Economics. The empirical research - within NNTT empirical literature - has been regarding on how different modes of internationalization - mainly FDI - affect productivity, sales and firms’ survival probability. While in theoretical analysis, he has been focusing on dynamic models with heterogeneous agents and bounded rationality in financial markets (within the HAMs literature), on the market structure when the demand is unknown, and new sources of heterogeneity (credit/liquidity constraints) among firms with different modes of internationalization.

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Areas of expertise: management of innovation, startup, accelerators, digital transformation

Biosketch: Nicola Del Sarto is assistant professor at University of Florence. He received a Ph.D in Management of Innovation, sustainability and healthcare from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in 2019. Nicola's research interests focus on small businesses and start-ups and support mechanisms such as incubators, accelerators, corporate accelerator programs and finance for innovation. Moreover, he investigated the processes of business creation under the Open Innovation paradigm. Nicola holds a Master degree in economics from University of Pisa and a post graduate master in Management, innovation and engineering of services from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Nicola's work has been published in high-quality peer reviewed journals and presented at international conferences.

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Areas of expertise: mathematical finance, volatility modeling, high-frequency financial econometrics, Fourier methods

Biosketch: Giacomo Toscano is Assistant Professor (RTD A) of Mathematical Methods for Economics and Finance at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance from Scuola Normale Superiore. His main research interests involve high-frequency Fourier-transform based volatility estimators and self-exciting stochastic volatility models with jumps.