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Michele Costa

Full Professor

Department of Economics

Academic discipline: SECS-S/01 Statistics

Curriculum vitae

born in Bologna, June 3, 1965

1988 - Graduated at the University of Bologna, Degree in Statistical and Economic Sciences, with honours

CURRENT POSITION
since 2004 Full Professor of Statistics, University of Bologna

PREVIUOS POSITIONS
from 2000 to 2004 Associate Professor of Statistics of Financial Markets, University of Bologna
from 1993 to 2000 Assistant Professor of Statistics of Financial Markets, University of Bologna
from 1990 to 1993 Lecturer in Statistics, University of Bologna

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
He is a member of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS), the Italian Econometric Society (SIdE), and the Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism (CAST).
2023 - 2026 - Member of the University Quality Assurance Board
2021 - 2023 - President of the School of Economics and Management
2018 - 2023 - Vice President of the School of Economics and Management, Bologna campus
2018 - 2021 - President of the Joint Committee of the School of Economics and Management

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
He conducts teaching activities at the Bologna Campus of the Alma Mater, offering courses in Statistics and Statistical Methods for Financial Markets. In the past, he has also taught courses at the University of Bologna, including Elements of Statistics, Elements of Statistics and Informatics, Corporate Finance, Measurement of Inequality and Human Capital, Statistical Models of Financial Markets, Statistics, Statistics for Money and Financial Markets, and Statistics and Probability.


RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS
His research activities primarily focus on measuring inequality (with particular reference to the Gini index and its decomposition), studying cooperative enterprises, statistical analysis of tourism, and analyzing latent variables in financial markets (with a particular emphasis on risk measurement).

2020 - 2024: Econometric Analysis of High-Dimensional Models with Network Structures in Macroeconomics and Finance - PRIN2017, PI Monica Billio, local PI Giuseppe Cavaliere.

2022 – 2025: Finance for a Sustainable, Green and Resilient Society – PRIN2020, PI Monica Billio, local PI Giuseppe Cavaliere, 2020B2AKFW_002

2022 – 2025: Circular economy and blue economy – Ecosister Spoke 5, PNRR Mission 4, European Union NextGenerationEU

2023 – 2026: Uncertainty and tail risk – PRIN 2022, PI Massimiliano Marcellino, local PI Luca Fanelli, 20229PFAX5

Inequalities in Tertiary Education (Intedu) – PRIN PNRR 2022, PI Giuseppe Pignataro, local PI Giuseppe Pignataro

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