Lecturers

  • Hilde Bjørnland (https://www.bjornland.no/): Professor of Economics and Director Centre for Applied Macroeconomics and Commodity Prices (CAMP), BI Norwegian Business School. She has published papers in leading international journals, including American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics and Review of Economics and Statistics. She is also the co-author of the book: “Applied Time Series For Macroeconomics”.
  • Chiara Casoli (https://sites.google.com/view/chiara-casoli/home): researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, working within the program ‘Econometrics of the Energy Transition.’ Her research interests include time series analysis, with a focus on structural VAR models and dynamic factor models, as well as the study of energy markets, climate, and environmental econometrics. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics in 2020 with a dissertation on the comovement of different commodity prices.
  • Fabrizio Iacone (https://www.unimi.it/it/ugov/person/fabrizio-iacone): Professor of Econometrics at the University of Milan, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics. He joined the University of Milan after twelve years at the University of York, where he is still a research fellow. Publications span both theoretical and applied contributions, and feature in the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, Journal of Time Series Analysis, International Journal of Forecasting. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Time Series Analysis.
  • Luca Pedini (https://www.feem.it/en/chi-siamo/persone/luca-pedini/): researcher for the “Econometrics of the Energy Transition” program at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He got a PhD in Economics at the Department of Economic and Social Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona) with a thesis on Bayesian Model Averaging in non-linear models. His research interests embrace Bayesian Econometrics and Computational Statistics. Since 2020 he has been part of the developer team for the econometric software gretl.
  • Matteo Pelagatti (https://www.unimib.it/matteo-maria-pelagatti): Professor of Economic and Business Statistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His research interests are mainly in the fields of time series analysis, energy markets, robust statistics and financial econometrics, but occasionally cover also health sciences and other social sciences. His research has been published in international outlets such as Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Energy Journal,Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of Banking & Finance, PLOS One, and he is author of the book Time Series Modelling with Unobserved Components published by Chapman & Hall/CRC.
  • Francesco Ravazzolo (http://www.francescoravazzolo.com/): Full Professor of Econometrics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Head of the Department of Data Science and Analytics at BI Norwegian Business School. He is also co-founder of AIAQUA and COMMODIA. His research focuses on commodity markets, econometrics, energy economics, financial econometrics and macroeconometrics. He is in the editorial board of the following journals: Annals of Applied Statistics; International Journal of Forecasting; Journal of Applied Econometrics; Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics.
  • Luca Rossini (https://rossiniluca.github.io/web/): Associate Professor at the University of Milan and Senior Researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Matteo. He has published papers in leading international journals, including Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and International Journal of Forecasting. His main research interests lie between forecasting time series models and studying new methodological tools to improve the Bayesian estimation of models.