Training and Research
PhD Programme Courses/classes
This page lists the training activities for the PhD programme for the academic year 2025/2026. Additional activities will be added during the year. Please check back regularly for updates!
Mathematics
Credits: 7.5
Language: English
Teacher: Corrado De Vecchi, Andrea Mazzon
Probability
Credits: 7.5
Language: English
Teacher: Marco Minozzo
Introduction to Economics
Credits: 5
Language: English
Teacher: Roberto Ricciuti
Mathematical Statistics
Credits: 5
Language: English
Teacher: Catia Scricciolo
Continuous Time Econometrics
Credits: 5
Language: English
Teacher: Cecilia Mancini
Macroeconomics I
Credits: 7.5
Language: INGLESE
Teacher: Tamara Fioroni, Alessia Campolmi
Microeconomics I
Credits: 10.5
Language: English
Teacher: Simona Fiore, Claudio Zoli, Martina Menon
Game Theory
Credits: 5
Language: English
Teacher: Francesco De Sinopoli
Financial Time Series
Credits: 5
Language: English
Teacher: Giuseppe Buccheri, Lorenzo Frattarolo
Stochastic Optimization and Control
Credits: 5
Language: English
Teacher: Athena Picarelli
Advice to Young Researchers
Credits: 4
Language: English
Teacher: Marco Piovesan
Job Market Orientation
Credits: 2
Language: English
Teacher: Simone Quercia
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Credits: 4
Language: English
Teacher: Simone Quercia, Maria Vittoria Levati, Marco Piovesan
Inequality
Credits: 4
Language: English
Teacher: Francesco Andreoli, Claudio Zoli, Lidia Ceriani
Development Economics
Credits: 4
Language: Italian
Teacher: Federico Perali
Financial Mathematics
Credits: 5
Language: Inglese
Teacher: Alessandro Gnoatto
Health Economics
Credits: 4
Language: English
Teacher: Paolo Pertile, Paola Bertoli
Political Economy
Credits: 4
Language: English
Teacher: Emanuele Bracco, Roberto Ricciuti
Stochastic Processes in Finance
Credits: 5
Language: English
Teacher: Sara Svaluto-Ferro
Microeconomics I (2025/2026)
Academic staff
Referent
Credits
10.5
Language
English
Class attendance
Compulsory
Location
VERONA
Learning objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with the main analytical tools to develop microeconomic analysis.
At the end of the course students should be able to apply the relevant mathematical technique for the analysis of consumption, production and choices under risk and develop a critical assessment of theoretical research on these subject.
Prerequisites and basic notions
Preliminary knowledge of basic microeconomics and elements of mathematical methods for economis.
Program
The course provides students with the main notions of microeconomic theory characterizing the first part of an advanced course on the subject. In particular, it is organized in three main parts:
1) Theory of consumer’s behaviour and welfare,
2) Theory of production,
3) Choices under uncertainty.
The approach is formal and mathematical, and is aimed not only at delivering the main elements of microeconomic theory but also at providing students with the necessary tools to address theoretical problems grounded in choice theory. Basic mathematical concepts and familiarity with logical and abstract reasoning are therefore a prerequisite of this course. Lectures will be supplemented by exercise classes to further develop the technical skills required.
Attention will also be played to place in context the analysis with possible applications of the concepts discussed for theoretical research or for policy analysis. Detailed references will be provided during the lectures.
Bibliography
Didactic methods
The course activities involve 30 hours of class lessons and 12 hours of exercise classes.
Learning assessment procedures
Written exam with seprate/specific questions on the three parts of the course.
Assessment
The written exam will evaluate the logical, expository and analytical skills relating to the topics covered in the course.
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final mark will be an average of the evaluation of each of the different parts of the course
Scheduled Lessons
| When | Classroom | Teacher | topics |
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Monday 03 November 2025 15:00 - 17:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Claudio Zoli | Lecture 1 C. Zoli Microeconomics 1 PhD Introduction to preferences and choice Binary relations. Strict and weak preferences. Axioms and representations of preferences. |
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Friday 07 November 2025 11:00 - 13:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Claudio Zoli | Lecture 2 C. Zoli Microeconomics 1 PhD Representation of preferences Relations between preferences, set of alternatives and choices. Properties of utility functions. |
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Monday 10 November 2025 10:00 - 13:00 Duration: 3:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Martina Menon | Consumer choice: commodities; the consumption set; the budget set. The envelope theorem. |
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Tuesday 11 November 2025 10:00 - 13:00 Duration: 3:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - SMT.04 [SMT.4 - terra] | Martina Menon | Classical demand theory: preferences and utility; the UMP; the Marshallian demand functions; the indirect utility function; properties of the demand functions and indirect utility function. |
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Wednesday 12 November 2025 10:00 - 13:00 Duration: 3:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - SMT.03 [SMT.3 - terra] | Martina Menon | Classical demand theory (continued): the EMP; the Hicksian demand function; the Expenditure function; properties of the Hicksian demand function and expenditure function; the Slutsky equation |
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Monday 17 November 2025 10:00 - 13:00 Duration: 3:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Martina Menon | Duality; Relationship between demand, indirect utility and expenditure function; Integrability; Welfare analysis. |
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Tuesday 18 November 2025 14:00 - 16:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Simona Fiore | Consumer Preferences: Properties of Preferences |
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Wednesday 19 November 2025 14:00 - 17:00 Duration: 3:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Claudio Zoli | Lecture 3 C. Zoli Microeconomics 1 PhD Properties of utility functions Firms and production. Transformation frontier, transformation function and marginal rate of transformation. Properties of production set. Inputs outputs and netputs. Returns to scale. |
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Thursday 20 November 2025 14:00 - 16:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Simona Fiore | Consumer Preferences and Choice: Properties of Preferences; Choice; Budget Constraint; Demand |
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Thursday 20 November 2025 16:00 - 18:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Claudio Zoli | Lecture 4 C. Zoli Microeconomics 1 PhD Profit maximization: many inputs and outputs. Supply function. Profit maximization: unconditional factor demands and supply function. |
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Monday 24 November 2025 15:00 - 17:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Claudio Zoli | Lecture 5 C. Zoli Microeconomics 1 PhD Cost minimization and conditional factor demands. Hotelling’s Lemma, Shephard’s Lemma. The role of the Envelope theorem in Economics. Applications to duality. |
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Tuesday 25 November 2025 14:00 - 16:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Simona Fiore | Utility maximization; cost minimization; Walrasian demand and Hicksian demand |
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Wednesday 26 November 2025 14:00 - 17:00 Duration: 3:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Claudio Zoli | Lecture 6 C. Zoli Microeconomics 1 PhD The role of the Envelope theorem in Economics. Applications to duality. (continues) Introduction to choices under risk Lotteries and preferences Theorems of representation. |
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Thursday 27 November 2025 15:00 - 17:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Claudio Zoli | Lecture 7 C. Zoli Microeconomics 1 PhD Representation of preferences over lotteries (continued) VNM expected utility. Allais paradox and violation of independence. Risk aversion, definition and implications. Risk premium. |
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Tuesday 02 December 2025 14:00 - 16:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Simona Fiore | Equivalent Variation and Compensating Variation; Relationship between Demand, Indirect Utility, and Expenditure Function. Production: Returns to Scale; Profit Maximization. |
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Wednesday 03 December 2025 14:00 - 16:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Claudio Zoli | Lecture 8 C. Zoli Microeconomics 1 PhD Expected utility (continued) Risk aversion. Degrees of risk aversion. Arrow-Pratt index of local risk aversion. Constant-increasing-decreasing risk aversion. |
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Thursday 04 December 2025 14:00 - 16:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
Polo Santa Marta - Sala Andrea Vaona (DSE) [1.59 - 1] | Simona Fiore | Profit Maximisation and Cost Minimisation; Cost Function; Hotelling’s Lemma; Shephard’s Lemma |
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Tuesday 09 December 2025 14:00 - 16:00 Duration: 2:00 AM |
To be defined | Simona Fiore | Choice under Uncertainty: Expected Utility; Lotteries; Risk Aversion. |
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