Scientific Committee
The doctoral faculty consists of the following researchers. Find out more about the staff involved in PhD students supervision and their research interests by surfing their personal web-pages.
| Member | Individual Research Keys |
| Silvia Angilella | Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding, Decision Theory, multi-criteria applications in financial intermediation, finance and innovation. |
| Salvatore Bosa | Insurance contracts, Business contract law, Consumer contracts, Obligations. |
| Gianluca Cafiso | Private Debt and the Macroeconomy, Public Debt Sustainability, Applied Econometrics, Sovereign Debt Markets |
| Maurizio Caserta | Self-sufficiency, corruption, education, sortition |
| Marina Cavalieri | Health economics, cultural economics, fiscal federalism, public procurement |
| Salvatore Corrente | Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, Decision Theory, Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, Robust Ordinal regression |
| Tiziana Cuccia | Local Development, Cultural heritage, Cultural economics, Tourism economics |
| Giorgia D'Allura | Individual Research Keys: family business; governance; innovation; internationalization; corporate strategy; entrepreneurship; sustainability; corporate social responsability (CSR) |
| Arturo Di Bella | Urban political economy, urban tourism, cultural heritage, sustainable urbanism |
| Roberto Di Mari | latent variable models, longitudinal data analysis, estimation methods, computational statistics |
| Fabio Di Vita | Modern history, Business history, Global history, Institutional economic history |
| Giuseppe Di Vita | economics of crime; discount rate; institutional economics; solar panels recycling |
| Marco Galvagno | Marketing, Consumer Behaviour, Family Business, Bibliometrics. |
| Alfio Giarlotta | Preference modelling, Choice theory, Utility representations, General topology |
| Calogero Guccio | Non-parametric frontier; Health Economics; Cultural Economics; Public Procurement |
| Fabio Giovanni Lamantia | Dynamical systems and their applications to economics and finance. Dynamic and Evolutionary Game Theory |
| Margherita Lazzara | bankruptcy, crisis/insolvency, entrepreneur/debtor, discharge |
| Domenico Lisi | Health Economics; Labour Economics; Spatial Econometrics; Institutional Economics |
| Cristina Longo | Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship & Innovative Start-ups, Strategies for standardization, Sustainability transition-based strategy |
| Luca Martino |
Bayesian Inference, Monte Carlo sampling methods, Machine Learning, Merit-based and transparent selection processes in public systems |
| Marco Ferdinando Martorana | Public Sector Efficiency; Cultural Economics, Health Economics; Political Economy |
| Agata Matarazzo | Environmental and Social Management Systems, Renewable Energy Sources, Waste Management Strategies, Circular Economy |
| Isidoro Mazza | Art market, Economics of culture, Political economy, Fiscal federalism |
| Sebastiano Mazzù | Theory of financial intermediation; Credit Risk Management; Risks of financial intermediaries; Bank business model |
| Melita Nicotra | Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Innovation and Technology Transformation, Knowledge Management, Absorptive CapacityGiacon |
| Giacomo Pignataro |
Measurement of performance and efficiency (hospitals, museums and other cultural institutions), Public procurement, Financing mechanisms of hospitals, Local public finance, Regulation, Health Economics, Cultural Economics, Cost-benefit analysis |
| Vincenzo Pisano | Internationalization, international entry modes, acquisitions, family business |
| Marcella Rizzo | Rural development policies and governance, Geographical Indication policy for typical and regional food quality protection, Agricultural European economic policy, Alternative and short agri-food supply-chains |
| Davide Rizzotti | Earnings quality, Board of Directors effectiveness, Family firms, Control |
| Oliviero Roggi | Individual Research Keys:Corporate Finance, Valuation, Risk Management, Sustainable Finance, Digital Currencies, Financial Stability International Risk Management Conference, The Risk Banking and Finance Society |
| Daniela Ruggeri | |
| Marco Romano | Strategic management; entrepreneurial ecosystems; knowlegde management; digital and technological transformation |
| Guido Salanitro | |
| Carmela Elita Schillaci | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Digital Care, Territorial Ecosystems |
| Luigi Scrofani | Territorial development, urban policies, landscape and cultural heritage |
| Lucio Siviero | Transport and logistics economics, regional economics, industrial organization |
| Benedetto Torrisi | Quality of work, Evaluation productivity, Measure of well-being at work, Human Capital Mobility |
| Gianpiero Torrisi | Regional development, Spatial disparities, Multidimensional wellbeing, Smart cities |
| PhD students representative | |
| Alessandro De Cristofaro | alessandro.decristofaro@phd.unict.it |