Teaching

Teaching:

2018/2019

– Convenor of 750N1 - Perspectives, Methods, and Skills (PG)

- Convenor of N1077 - Innovation Systems (UG)

- Co-convenor of L1063 - AET Economics of Innovation (UG)

Topics of interest for Master Theses:

– Economic (and institutional/legal) aspects of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence

– Machine learning applied to economic predictions

– Economic aspects of digitalization processes

– Long waves and general purpose technologies: modeling and/or empirical studies

– Studies/Dynamics of industries displaying peculiar economic behaviors: two/multi-sided markets, platforms, linked payoffs

– Innovation with pervasive potentials introduced because of digital transformations: e.g. blockchain

– Industrial dynamics and organization of digital industries: Music, Video/TV/streaming

– Markets with no markets: repugnant transactions, etc.

– Technology gap models in the era of global value chains / urbanization and innovation / labor flows and innovation

– Productivity dynamics, productivity slowdown

– Industrial policies in the XXI century

– Granularity hypothesis, increasing market concentration, and the rise of superstar firms (and their economic implications)

– Network incentives (e.g. in the adoption of consumer styles/sustainability/ firms behaviors in clusters)

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