Household Behavior and Family Economics

People with expertise in this area
Research interests

Alessandro Bucciol: Full Professor
Giam Pietro Cipriani: Full Professor
Eleonora Matteazzi: Temporary Assistant Professor

Martina Menon: Associate Professor
Federico Perali: Full Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
JEL D11 - Consumer Economics: Theory	Martina Menon Federico Perali	Economic theory of consumer behavior. The analysis take into account the problems of an exact aggregation and heterogeneity of consumers. It also extends the neoclassical consumer theory to cooperative models.
JEL D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis	Martina Menon Federico Perali	Empirical analysis of the economic theory of consumers through the econometric estimates of the Engel curves, purchase irregularity problem, unit values, and the design of sample surveys of the families.
JEL D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation	Eleonora Matteazzi Martina Menon Federico Perali	Study of theoretical and empirical models for the analysis of collective choices within the family. Analysis of economic models related to consumption choices, family production, allocation of time, and family work offer. Study of bargaining mechanisms at family level and definition of decision-making powers within the family, endogenous fixation of prices and shadow wages.
JEL D14 - Personal Finance	Alessandro Bucciol	Analysis of single-period and multi-period consumption and saving decisions; financial risk propensity.
JEL D15 - Intertemporal Household Choice ; Life Cycle Models and Saving	Giam Pietro Cipriani	Macroeconomic models of intertemporal choices: savings, human capital accumulation, intergenerational transfers