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Please check the official Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships page for eligibility
The Department of Economics of the University of Verona welcomes expressions of interest for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships with Verona as host institution.
The Department of Economics at the University of Verona welcomes expressions of interest from researchers wishing to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, hosted by the University of Verona, on the topics outlined below.
The University of Verona is a dynamic and internationally oriented institution. Its Department of Economics has been awarded the “Department of Excellence 2023–2027” seal by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and offers a stimulating research environment across economics, econometrics, statistics, mathematics, and related fields.
Interested candidates are invited to send a brief outline of their research proposal and their CV to ricerca@dse.univr.it by 24 June 2026.
For further information on eligibility rules and the application process, candidates should consult the official Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships page. Before sending a proposal, please make sure you have carefully checked the eligibility criteria for the MSCA programme.
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Area: Behavioral Economics
Supervisor: Marco Piovesan
Title: The Development of Risk, Time, and Social Preferences in Childhood and Adolescence
Description:
This topic examines how risk, time, and social preferences develop during childhood and adolescence. These preferences play a central role in individual decision-making and are associated with important outcomes in education, health, cooperation, and future economic behavior.
The topic will study how children and adolescents make decisions involving uncertainty, delayed rewards, and social trade-offs, and how these preferences evolve with age, cognitive development, family background, peer interactions, and school environment. Particular attention will be devoted to experimental and lab-in-the-field methods, including incentivized tasks designed for young participants.
The topic may also investigate whether early behavioral traits predict later educational choices, academic performance, and social behavior. More broadly, the proposal aims to contribute to three main research objectives: understanding the development of risk, time, and social preferences; examining their relationship with cognitive abilities, socio-demographic characteristics, and educational outcomes; and assessing how experimental evidence on children’s and adolescents’ preferences can inform educational and social policies.
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Area: Macroeconomics
Supervisor: Alessia Campolmi
Title: Macroeconomic Policy, International Trade, and Global Challenges
Description:
This research area welcomes projects in macroeconomics, international economics, and international trade, broadly defined. Possible topics include monetary and fiscal policy, macro-labor dynamics, international trade, trade policy, and the interaction between trade and climate policies.
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Area: Economics of conflict
Supervisor: Roberto Ricciuti
Title: The Social and Economic Effects of Drones in Contemporary Conflict
Description:
This topic investigates the social and economic consequences of drones in contemporary armed conflict. While drones are often assessed in terms of precision, tactical effectiveness, and reduced risk for the attacking side, their broader effects on affected communities remain less well understood.
The topic will focus on second-order consequences of drone warfare, including displacement, disruption of local economic activity, changes in civilian mobility, psychological costs, political attitudes, and potential backlash through radicalization or increased support for armed groups. From an economic perspective, drones can be understood as a technology that changes both the cost of violence and the spatial distribution of insecurity.
The central research question is whether drone warfare reduces the overall social cost of conflict or instead transforms it by shifting costs onto civilian populations and local economies. The project is open to empirical, theoretical, and mixed-method approaches, and is particularly suited to candidates working at the intersection of conflict economics, political economy, development economics, and applied microeconomics.
