Coordinator
Edoardo Otranto

PhD Staff

Surname: Abbate
Name: Tindara
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Management
E-mail: abbatet@unime.it
Keywords: Open Innovation, Social Innovation,Territorial Marketing, DMO

Surname: Agaje
Name: Tadele Ferede
Addis Ababa University
Field of Expertise: Applied Economics
E-mail: tadele.ferede@aau.edu.et
Keywords: Social Accounting Matrix (SAM); Computable General Equilibrium; Structural transformation; Applied economics​

Surname: Andrieu
Name: Guillaume
Montpellier Business School
Field of Expertise: Finance
E-mail: g.andrieu@Montpellier-BS.com
Website
Keywords: Venture Capital, Banks, Entrepreneurship, Crowdfunding, Theory of Contracts

Surname: Appio
Name: Francesco
SKEMA Business School
Field of Expertise: Management
E-mail: francesco.appio@skema.edu
Website
Keywords: digital transformation; smart cities; breakthrough discoveries; bibliometrics

Surname: Barone-Adesi
Name: Giovanni
Università della Svizzera Italiana
Field of Expertise: Financial Markets and Institutions
E-mail: giovanni.baroneadesi@usi.ch
Website
Keywords: Asset pricing, risk management, derivatives

Surname: Bauwens
Name: Luc
Université catholique de Louvain  
Field of Expertise: Econometrics
E-mail: luc.bauwens@uclouvain.be
Website
Keywords: Bayesian Econometrics; Financial Econometrics; Times Series Econometrics

Surname: Busetta
Name: Giovanni
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Economic Statistics
E-mail: giovanni.busetta@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Labour, discrimination, field experiment, covid pandemic, mutual loan guarantee societies

Surname: Caltabiano
Name: Marcantonio
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Demography
E-mail: caltabiano@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Historical demography, low fertility and childlessness, reproductive and sexual behaviour

Surname: Campolo
Name: Maria Gabriella
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Social Statistics
E-mail: mgcampolo@unime.it 
Website
Keywords: fertility, women labour supply, time-use, well-being

Surname: Cesaroni
Name: Fabrizio
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Management
E-mail: fcesaroni@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Innovation management; IPR management; university-industry technology transfer

Surname: Cinici
Name: Maria Cristina
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Management
E-mail: mariacristina.cinici@unime.it
Keywords: Strategic Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial ecosystems, Innovation in healthcare, Technology-based companies and high-velocity industries, Research methods in Strategic Management

Surname: Di Pino Incognito
Name: Antonino
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Social Statistics
E-mail: dipino@unime.it 
Website
Keywords: causal inference, models estimation with censoring, economic evaluation of time use, estimation of fertility and labour supply relation

Surname: Donato
Name: Maria Bernadette
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Mathematical methods of economy, finance and actuarial sciences
E-mail: mbdonato@unime.it
Website
Keywords: General equilibrium; Incomplete financial markets, variational inequality theory

Surname: Forgione
Name: Antonio Fabio
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Financial Markets and Institutions
E-mail: fforgione@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Risk management for financial market and banking; Financial markets and banking; Corporate investment

Surname: Giaccone
Name: Sonia Caterina
University of Catania
Field of Expertise: Management
E-mail: sonia.giaccone@unict.it
Keywords: Territorial marketing, Tourism, Innovation management

Surname: Ioppolo
Name: Giuseppe
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Commodity Science
E-mail: giuseppe.ioppolo@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Environmental management; environmental governance; industrial econology; Sustainability (tangible and intangible aspects); circular economy

Surname: La Rocca
Name: Elvira Tiziana
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Management
E-mail: elviratiziana.larocca@unime.it
Website
Keywords: corporate governance, international diversification, SMEs

Surname: Leonida
Name: Leone
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Public Economics
E-mail: lleonida@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Applied Econometrics, Banking, Finance, Forecast of EWS, Textual analysis, Investment models, Corporate finance

Surname: Leotta
Name: Antonio
University of Catania
Field of Expertise: Business administration and Management
E-mail: leottant@unict.it
Keywords: Management accounting and control, Family business, Inter-organizational relationships, New product development processes

Surname: Maimone Ansaldo Patti
Name: Dario
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Public Economics
E-mail: dmaimone@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Institutions and growth; subjective freedom; social well-being; applied economics

Surname: Mazza
Name: Angelo
University of Catania
Field of Expertise: Demography
E-mail: a.mazza@unict.it
Website
Keywords: Spatial demography; Computational Methods in Social Sciences; R package development

Surname: Mendola
Name: Daria
University of Palermo
Field of Expertise: Social Statistics
E-mail: daria.mendola@unipa.it
Website
Keywords: Poverty; migration; well-being; tourism, composite indicators; longitudinal analysis

Surname:Migliardo
Name: Carlo
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Economics
E-mail: cmigliardo@unime.it
Keywords: Environmental Economics, Industrial Economics, Monetary Economics

Surname: Milasi
Name: Monica
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Mathematical methods of economy, finance and actuarial sciences
E-mail: mmilasi@unime.it
Website
Keywords: General economic equilibrium problems, generalized concavity, variational inequality problems

Surname: Millemaci
Name: Emanuele
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Economic Policy
E-mail: emillemaci@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Economics of Crime and Corruption, Behavioral and experimental economics, Migration

Surname: Miralles Asensio
Name: Antonio
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Economics
E-mail: amirallesasensio@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Market Design, Mechanism Design, Game Theory, Assignment Problems, Welfare and Segregation in School Choice, Pseudomarkets and Competitve Equilibria

Surname: Noto
Name: Guido
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Business administration and Management
E-mail: guido.noto@unime.it
Website
Keywords: performance management, management control, management accounting, healthcare management, strategic management, public administration

Surname: Otranto
Name: Edoardo
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Statistics
E-mail: eotranto@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Volatility and correlation models for financial markets;  time series clustering;  Models with time-varying parameters

Surname: Piolatto
Name: Amedeo
Autonomous University of Barcelona  
Field of Expertise: Economics
E-mail: amedeo.piolatto@uab.es
Website
Keywords: Applied micro-theory, Political Economy, Public Economics, Industrial Organisation

Surname: Punzo
Name: Antonio
University of Catania
Field of Expertise: Statistcs
E-mail: antonio.punzo@unict.it
Website
Keywords: Mixture models; model-based clustering; serial dependence

Surname: Reito
Name: Francesco
University of Catania
Field of Expertise: Economics
E-mail: reito@unict.it
Website
Keywords: Asymmetric and Private Information, and Mechanism Design; Financial Markets and Institutions;Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

Surname: Salomone
Name: Roberta
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Commodity Science
E-mail: salomoner@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Quality and Environmental Management; Sustainability Management; Life Cycle Thinking and Assessment; Industrial Symbiosis; Circular Economy

Surname: Scopelliti
Name: Alessandro Diego
KU Leuven  
Field of Expertise: Finance
E-mail: alessandrodiego.scopelliti@kuleuven.be
Website
Keywords: empirical banking, financial regulation and stability, macroprudential policy and monetary policy, sustainable finance, capital markets

Surname: Spagnolo
Name: Fabio
Brunel University of London  
Field of Expertise: Statistics
E-mail: fabio.spagnolo@brunel.ac.uk​
Keywords: Financial econometrics, International finance, Nonlinear time series

Surname: Staglianò
Name: Raffaele
University of Messina
Field of Expertise: Finance
E-mail: rstagliano@unime.it
Website
Keywords: Corporate Finance, Empirical Corporate Finance, Capital Structure, SMEs Financing, Corporate Governance

Surname: Szopik-Depczyńska
Name: Katarzyna
University of Szczecin   
Field of Expertise: Management
E-mail: katarzyna.szopik-depczynska@usz.edu.pl
Website
Keywords: corporate management, innovation and R&D management and economics, sustainability, transport & logistics

Surname: Tomaselli
Name: Venera
University of Catania
Field of Expertise: Social Statistics
E-mail: venera.tomaselli@unict.it
Website
Keywords: Multivariate statistical analysis, ecological fallacy, accuracy of opinion polls, tourism and market segmentation, immigration, biostatistics

Surname: Zawadzka
Name: Danuta
Technical University of Koszalin   
Field of Expertise: Finance
E-mail: danuta.zawadzka@tu.koszalin.pl​
Website
Keywords:  Corporate Finance, SME Financing, Financial Exclusion.

Surname: Ziegelmann
Name: Flavio A.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul    
Field of Expertise: Statistics
E-mail: flavioaz@mat.ufrgs.br​
Website
Keywords: time series, financial econometrics, dynamic copulas, nonparametric models, volatility