Researchers
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Rossella Bardazzi |
| Rossella Bardazzi is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Florence. Her research focuses on the theoretical and empirical analysis of multisectoral models and microsimulation. She is a member of the international research network INFORUM (Interindustry Forecasting at the University of Maryland), with which she has collaborated on developing a bilateral trade model. Her research interests include the development of demand systems for household consumption, energy demand by businesses and households, energy poverty, the simulation of economic, fiscal, and environmental policies, and their distributional effects. |
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Stefano Clò |
| Stefano Clò is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence. He holds a PhD in Law & Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Bologna with a thesis on European climate policies. His research interests focus on energy and environmental economics, with an emphasis on the evaluation of energy and climate policies and the analysis of public enterprises in sectors of general interest. His recent research concerns the economics of natural disasters and the spread of renewable energy communities. |
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Domenico Colucci |
| Domenico Colucci is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Florence. His research interests include experimental and behavioural economics, learning theory in economic contexts, and the analysis of dynamic models with heterogeneous agents. He is also interested in computational economics and simulation models. He teaches Mathematics for Economics and Coding for Economists. |
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Tiziano Distefano |
| Researcher (Rtd-b) in Political Economy. He was Principal Investigator of the MIT-UNIPI MISTI Grant for the project ``Ecological Macroeconomics for an Equitable Resilient and Inclusive Transition in the U.S.'' (EMERITUS) in collaboration with MIT and Virginia Tech (USA). He co-organized the XIV ESEE Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics (Pisa, 2022), the Workshop in Behavioral Ecological Economics (Florence, 2023) and two summer schools in Ecological Economics (Pisa, 2022-23). In addition, he created, in collaboration with the magazine Il BO Live of the University of Padua, the podcast "Back to the future: talks on Ecological Economics". His main research interests include ecological macroeconomics, international trade, water resources, ecological preferences, input-output, network theory and epistemology. |
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Nicola Doni |
| Nicola Doni is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence, where he teaches Microeconomics. He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Pisa, a Master's degree from Coripe Piemonte, and a PhD in Political Economy from the University of Siena. His research interests include auction theory, industrial organization, and contract theory, with applications in public procurement and the regulation of public utilities. He has consulted for the Ministry of the Environment, GSE, Cispel Toscana, and the National Association of Local Authorities. His work has been published in journals such as Resource and Energy Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and Economics Letters. |
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Raffaele Donvito |
| Professor of Marketing and Business Internationalization at the University of Florence and Lecturer in Introduction to Marketing at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business - New York University - Florence. He is the vice-coordinator of BEELab+, the Behavioral and Experimental Economics Lab at the University of Florence. His research interests include brand management with a particular focus on the brand-customer relationship, international and territorial marketing, marketing of fashion and goods with high symbolic value, and retail marketing. His work is published in international scholarly journals such as Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Brand Management, Journal of Product & Brand Management, Qualitative Market Research, Journal of Strategic Marketing. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Fashion Marketing as well as a member of the editorial board of the Italian Journal of Marketing. |
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Alessandro Gioffré |
| Alessandro Gioffré is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence. He holds a PhD in Mathematics for Economic and Financial Applications from La Sapienza University and a degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Pisa. His research interests focus on game theory, social norms, and political and monetary economics. His current research includes cooperation, tokenization, and the microfoundations of money. He has published in journals such as Economica, Social Choice and Welfare, and the Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control. He has gained international experience as a visiting scholar at Chapman University and Purdue University, as an assistant professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt, and as a postdoctoral researcher in Basel. |
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Laura Grazzini |
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Laura Grazzini is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Florence and is responsible for internships and study plans for the Degree Course in Business Management and Administration. Her research interests focus on sustainable marketing, with an emphasis on communication and branding processes for sustainability, sustainable consumption behaviors, and the role of implicit attitudes in consumer choices. She has developed expertise in the application of Construal Level Theory and the Implicit Association Test to understand the dynamics of sustainable consumption, with a focus on the fashion and eco-friendly packaging sectors. Her work has been published in journals such as Psychology & Marketing and the Journal of Cleaner Production. |
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Ginevra Virginia Lombardi |
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Maria Grazia Pazienza |
| Maria Grazia Pazienza is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Sciences of the University of Florence, where she teaches Public Finance, Fiscal Policy, and a module on Energy and Environment (Energy, Environment and EU Security). She earned her degree in Economics and Business at Sapienza University of Rome and her PhD in Political Economy at the University of Siena. She serves as an expert on Public Finance issues for various national institutions and takes part in several national and international research groups. Her current research focuses on the effects of taxation, including environmental taxation, and on the energy consumption choices of households and firms, also in relation to energy poverty. |
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Chiara Rapallini |
| Chiara Rapallini is an associate professor of Finance at the University of Florence where she teaches public economics and behavioral economics. She graduated with honors from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Florence, she obtained PhD in Economics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and carried out research periods in France, Sweden, the United States and Canada. She was a researcher at the Europa Research Center, she collaborated with the Research Office of the Bank of Italy and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Her main research interests concern family economics, education and the role of personality in economic choices. During these times she published numerous articles in Italian and foreign scientific journals, also adopting protocols of experimental economy. |
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Gianluca Stefani |
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Last update
12.10.2025