(GY) ECONOMICS

The research activity of the Economics Group focuses above all on the following main areas:

• Empirical evaluation of public policies
• Labor economics
• Circular economy 
• Waste management
• Water resources management
• Economic dynamics and equilibrium in goods, labor and financial markets
• Underground economy and tax evasion
• Business cycle
• Energy transitions and economic growth
• Economic History
• Spatial Econometrics
• DSG model
   

The interdisciplinary research group Knowledge, organization and society has expertise in sociology, political science and economics

Napoli FinTech Lab is a top-tier, fully-funded educational initiative for emerging talents. Founded on a financial innovation workshop, it sees the participation of universities, key financial sector companies, a technological partner, fintech startups, and students. Its aim is to establish a university-based fintech ecosystem that actively contributes to the digital transformation of the banking and financial sectors.

The main topics addressed by the research team are: Consumer Behavior; Tourism Economics; Choice/Decision Models; Risk and uncertain Behaviors; Shrinking Cities; Quality of Life; Public Policies; Fisheries Economics; International Environmental Agreements; Tourism and the Environment.

The group's research profile covers a wide range of topics in the fields of Economics and Finance, with particular emphasis on Financial Economics, Economic Integration, Business Cycles, Monetary Economics, Regional Economics, Economics of Innovation, Economic Policy, Labor Market, Income Inequality, Economic Growth and Development and Tourism Economic Impacts.

The Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics (CEFAGE) was created in 2006, with the aim of promoting high quality research in the areas of Management and Economics. Since 2009 CEFAGE is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (previous project reference: UID/ECO/04007/2013; current project reference UIDB/04007/2020). 

Department of Transportation Market is one out of five chairs involved in research at Faculty of Economics. It was founded in 1991 and currently is one of the leading units in research of air transport and urban transport.  It cooperates with a variety of scientific institutions but is well known of for its practical aspects of research. Its research activity focuses on economics of urban and air transport, railway transport, marketing research, marketing management in transport and transformation of transport markets, mobility. 

Nudging in (economics) education
Language as a nudge
Language: moods and accents in economic decisions
Experiments in economics: framing and priming in behavioral approach
E-learning in economics education

• market failures, state deficiencies
• institutional economics, regulation, deregulation
• social welfare, socio-economic development, inequality and inclusion
• modern labour market
• entrepreneurship
• health and healthcare economics
• economic impacts of COVID-19 pandemic