PhD in Economics - Universities of Milan and Pavia

Welcome to the PhD in Economics of the Universities of Milan and Pavia.
The PhD in Economics is an inter-university research-based training programme dedicated to prepare excellent economists.

We provide advanced training in fundamental skills in theoretical, applied and empirical economics, and we supervise doctoral students who want to develop research projects that add new knowledge in Economics, and who want to acquire the competences needed for a career in policy making at the national and international level.

Objective and learning outcomes

The programme aims at preparing outstanding scholars for professional careers in Universities, Government, or research departments of private and public institutions.

The successful candidate, after three years of advanced study and research closely supervised by Faculty members, will be able to:

• • Propose economic policies to address practical economic situations, relevant real-world economic issues and evaluate their effectiveness;
  • Ask relevant research questions;
  • Design a research strategy;
  • Use up-to-date modelling and empirical approaches;
  • Present the results in articles publishable in international scientific journals.

Research areas

Students develop these skills by doing research in one of eight research areas in which our Faculty is at the frontier of economic research: