Research
The permanent faculty has active research interests in the following areas: applied economics, behavioral economics, coalitions and networks, decision theory, economics of information, environmental economics, experimental economics, financial econometrics, game theory, general economic equilibrium, household behavior, informational asymmetries, labour economics, trading mechanisms.
The research output from the faculty of Economics at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice has been ranked 4th overall (out of 64 Italian universities evaluated) in the recent Research Assessment Exercise (VTR 2006) by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR), concerning the three years from 2001 to 2003. Download the report for the official rating. On the 16th of December 2008, La Voce published the research of the H index which ranks venetian economists in 8th place, see article for complete information regarding ranking.
The School runs three seminar series. The first two series follow a standard 1h30' format and are run by the Department of Economics and by the Department of Business, respectively. The third series is the student-run WISE (Wednesday Informal Seminar in Economics). See Seminar Series page upcoming and past seminars.