Silvio Traverso

Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research
Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany [Aug. 2016 ~ May 2017]

PhD in Economics
University of Florence, Florence, Italy [Nov. 2013 ~ Apr. 2017]
Thesis: "Migration, Remittances and Wellbeing. Three Essays on Bangladesh Deveopment" (Supervisor: prof. Donato Romano)

Visiting Researcher
University of Zagreb, Croatia [Apr. 2016 ~ Jul. 2017]

MSc in Economics and Financial Institutions
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy [Sep. 2011 ~ Oct. 2013]
Final grade: 110/110 with honours

Erasmus Visiting Student
Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom [Sep. 2012 ~ Dec. 2012]

BSc in Business Economics
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy [Sep. 2007 ~ Mar. 2011]
Final grade: 104/110

Research Fellow
Research topic: 'Firms and Workers at thecrossroad: New challenges for the Italian economic systems'
November 2019 ~ Present, University of Trento

Research Fellow
Research topic: 'Personality Traits & Labor Market Outcomes: a Meta-Analysis"
May 2019 ~ November 2019, University of Florence

Post-doc Research Fellow
Research topic: 'Economic Integration & Anti-Establishment Voting'
May 2017 ~ May 2019, University of Trento

Lecturer
Course title: 'Politica Economica e Finanziaria' (undergrad.)
Second semester 2017/2018, University of Genoa

Teaching Assistant
Course title: 'Laboratorio di Analisi dei Mercati' (undergrad.)
First semester 2018/2019, University of Trento

Teaching Assistant
Course title: 'Laboratorio di Analisi dei Mercati' (undergrad.)
First semester 2017/2018, University of Trento

​Teaching Assistant
Course title: 'Politica Economica dello Sviluppo' (undergrad.)
First semester 2014/2015, University of Florence

Applied economics; Development economics.

• Economic determinants of electoral outcomes, populism and anti-establishment voting in contemporary western democracies
• Migration and food security

• ASP tuition waiver, 2016, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany (9,000 EUR)
• PhD fellowship, 2013 (3 years), University of Florence, Italy (45,000 EUR)
• Top 10% Erasmus students' prize (a/y 2012-13), 2014, University of Genoa, Italy (500 EUR)