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Overview
The International Doctoral Program in Economics is a three-year program designed for highly qualified and motivated students who wish to acquire the research and analytical skills of the international scientific community in economics. It is designed for students seeking jobs in academia as well as those who wish to acquire the skills of professional academic research to work in government agencies, financial institutions, international agencies, private companies.

Students will be offered one year and a half of intensive course work by an international Faculty composed of both permanent staff of the School and a large group of Visiting Scholars, and will then proceed to supervised research work, yielding an original dissertation to be discussed in a final, public examination. It is expected that students will produce articles publishable in international journals

The Programme is jointly offered by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and by University of Strasbourg.
Moreover, it is part of a European network - involving the University of Sussex, Aalborg, Manchester, Paris XIII, Oslo and several others, supporting inter-European exchanges of research students and faculty, within the European Network of Excellence DIME.

In addition to the teaching activities, Ph.D. students are nested in a rich research environment, within the Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM) at the Sant'Anna School, and the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée - BETA, where Ph.D. students are encouraged to take part in various ongoing research projects.

The coursework is structured in 5 main courses:

• Mathematics for Social Sciences
• Statistics and Econometrics
• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• History of Economic Thought and Economic History

Each course is organized into modules. Each year the list of compulsory modules may slightly change. The current list of compulsory first-year modules is:

1. Mathematics for Social Sciences

• Linear Algebra
• Calculus
• Differential Equations
• Static Optimization
• Dynamic Optimization
• Introduction to Stochastic Processes

2. Statistics and Econometrics

• Basics of Statistics and Econometrics
• Time Series
• Microeconometrics

3. Microeconomics

• Consumption
• Production, Markets and Intro to Equilibrium
• Topics in General Equilibrium
• Game Theory
• Decision Theory
• Industrial Organization
• Organizational Economics
• Information, Knowledge and Innovation
• Technical Change and Industrial Dynamics

4. Macroeconomics

• Stylized Facts
• Introduction to Macroeconomics
• Economic Growth: Theory and Empirics
• Dynamic Macroeconomics I and II
• Topics in Macro: Consumption and Investment
• Evolutionary Macroeconomics
• History of Economic Thought and Economic History
• Economic History
• History Of Economic Thought

At the beginning of the second year of the program, short intensive modules in a few selected areas are offered, at the School and the University of Strasbourg, in order to introduce the students to the international state-of-the-art of research. Second-year (September-December) modules taught in Pisa currently include:

• Agent-based Computational Economics
• International Trade
• Labor Economics
• Evolutionary models of innovation, growth and growth fluctuations

Admission to research work is conditional on the successful completion of the course work and related exams.

Teaching modules are complemented by research seminars throughout the year. All teaching is in English.

Main areas of research
Main areas of research of internal and/or associated faculty where thesis work is also encouraged, include Economics of Innovation, Models and Empirical Studies of Industrial and Economic Dynamics, Organisation Theory, Economics of Public Goods, , Theory and Empirics of Real and Financial Markets, Experimental Economics, Agent-based Macro Models and Computational Economics.

The research work of each student is followed by a “thesis committee” – including the main supervisor – composed by scholars both internal and external to the School.

Ph.D students are expected to complete a dissertation, written in English, entailing original work of standard adequate to publication on refereed international journals.

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