Raffaello Seri

Raffaello Seri

Professor of Econometrics

Università degli Studi dell'Insubria

Biography

I am a professor of econometrics. My research is at the intersection of statistics, numerical analysis, operations research, psychology, economics and management.

Interests

  • Statistics and econometrics
  • Numerical analysis
  • Operations research
  • Mathematical psychology

Education

  • PhD in Science, major in Mathematics, 2005

    Université Paris Dauphine, Paris (France)

  • PhD in Management and Industrial Engineering, 1999

    Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy)

  • DEA MASE, 1999

    Université Paris Dauphine/ENSAE, Paris (France)

  • MSc in Management and Industrial Engineering, 1996

    Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy)

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Director of InsIDE (Insubria Information & Data for Economics) Lab

DiEco, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

Mar 2023 – Present Varese (Italy)
 
 
 
 
 

Member of the Research Centre for Computational & Organisational Cognition

Syddansk Universitet

Jul 2018 – Present Slagelse (Denmark)
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting fellow

ICERM, Brown University

Feb 2018 – Mar 2018 Providence (USA)
 
 
 
 
 

Full professor

DiEco, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

Feb 2017 – Present Varese (Italy)
 
 
 
 
 

Member of the Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems

Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

Jan 2016 – Present Como (Italy)
 
 
 
 
 

Associate professor

DiEco, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

Oct 2014 – Jan 2017 Varese (Italy)
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant professor

DiEco, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

Feb 2004 – Sep 2014 Varese (Italy)
 
 
 
 
 

Post-doc

DiEco, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

Nov 2003 – Jan 2004 Varese (Italy)
 
 
 
 
 

Post-doc

IMATI, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Dec 2002 – Oct 2003 Milano (Italy)

Education

PhD in Sciences, major in Mathematics, under the supervision of Christian Hess

Université Paris Dauphine Sep 1999 – May 2005

DEA MASE (Mathématiques Appliquées aux Sciences Économiques) under the supervision of Christian Gouriéroux

Université Paris Dauphine/ENSAE Sep 1998 – Aug 1999

PhD in Management and Industrial Engineering under the supervision of Rocco Mosconi

Politecnico di Milano Sep 1996 – Dec 1999

MSc in Management and Industrial Engineering

Politecnico di Milano Sep 1991 – Jul 1996

Organization of Events

Summer School ‘The Bioeconomy Transformation: Science, Economics, Business and Society’

Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy) 14 Apr 2025 – 18 Apr 2023
Organized with Loredano Pollegioni, Daniela Ubiali, Andrea Vezzulli, together with the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies.

Third Summer School in Philosophy of Economics

Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy) 24 Jun 2024 – 28 Jun 2024
Organized with Anna Alexandrova, Francesco Guala, Conrad Heilmann, Chiara Lisciandra, Ivan Moscati, David Teira and Johanna Thoma, together with the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies and INEM (International Network for Economic Method).

Summer School ‘The Bioeconomy Transformation: Science, Economics, Business and Society’

Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy) 5 Jun 2023 – 9 Jun 2023
Organized with Loredano Pollegioni, Daniela Ubiali, Andrea Vezzulli, together with the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies.

Model Evaluation and Causal Search: Empirical and Experimental Approaches

Centro Congressi le Benedettine, Pisa (Italy) 25 Sep 2022 – 27 Sep 2022
Organized within PRIN 20177FX2A7 (PI Alessio Moneta) by Fulvio Corsi, Francesco Feri, Rachele Foschi, Alexia Gaudeul, Alessio Moneta, Raffaello Seri.

Second Summer School ‘Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies’

Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy) 27 Jun 2022 – 1 Jul 2022
Organized with Francesco Guala, Caterina Marchionni and Ivan Moscati, together with the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies and INEM (International Network for Economic Method).

Summer School ‘Bioeconomy school: from basic science to a new economy’

Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy) 24 May 2021 – 28 May 2021
Organized with Fabrizio Adani, Garabed Antranikian, Diego Bosco, Marcella Bracale, Loredano Pollegioni, Andreas Pyka, Daniela Ubiali, Andrea Vezzulli, together with the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies.

Summer School ‘Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies’

Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy) 30 Jun 2019 – 5 Jul 2019
Organized with Francesco Guala, Caterina Marchionni and Ivan Moscati, together with the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies and INEM (International Network for Economic Method).

Summer School ‘The Evolution of the Economic Theory of Decision-making’

Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy) 28 Aug 2017 – 1 Sep 2017
Organized with Francesco Guala and Ivan Moscati, together with the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies and ESHET (European Society for the History of Economic Thought).

Conference ‘Forecasting Economic and Financial Time Series: Understanding the complexity and modelling structural change’

Villa Mondragone, Monte Porzio Catone (Italy) 12 Sep 2016 – 13 Sep 2016
Organized within PRIN 2010J3LZEN.

43rd EMPG (European Mathematical Psychology Group) Meeting

Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (Spain) 29 Aug 2012 – 31 Aug 2012
Organized with EMPG (European Mathematical Psychology Group).

Teaching

Senate of the Italian Republic, Roma (Italy)

Master Analisi e Valutazione delle Politiche Pubbliche

  • Individui, comportamenti ed istituzioni - 20 hrs (A.Y. 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17)
  • Politiche per la legalità, di contrasto alla corruzione e all’evasione fiscale - 5 hrs (A.Y. 2016-17)

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena (Germany)

Central-German Doctoral Program Economics

  • Econometrics of Competitive and Regulated Markets - 20 hrs (A.Y. 2015-16)

Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese (Italy)

PhD in Methods and Models for Economic Decision

  • Advanced Econometrics for Decision Making - 20 hrs (A.Y. 2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-16)

Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma (Italy)

PhD in Econometrics and Empirical Economics

  • Survival analysis - 8 hrs (A.Y. 2007-08)
  • Extreme value theory - 8 hrs (A.Y. 2007-08, 2006-07)
  • Alternative Factorizations of the Likelihood - 8 hrs (A.Y. 2005-06, 2004-05)

Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese (Italy)

Department of Economics

  • Econometria per la Finanza - 40 hrs (A.Y. 2024-25)
  • Econometrics of Competitive and Regulated Markets - 80 hrs (A.Y. 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14)
  • Econometria - 40 hrs (A.Y. 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23, 2021-22, 2020-21, 2019-20, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14, 2009-10, 2008-09, 2007-08, 2006-07)
  • Econometria dell’Organizzazione Industriale (Econometrics of Industrial Organization) - 40 hrs (A.Y. 2012-13)
  • Statistica per l’Impresa (Marketing Statistics) - 20 hrs (A.Y. 2011-12)
  • Econometria delle durate (Advanced Econometrics) - 40 hrs (A.Y. 2009-10, 2008-09, 2007-08)
  • Econometria dei mercati finanziari A (Financial Econometrics) - 40 hrs (A.Y. 2008-09, 2006-07)
  • Extreme value theory - 6 hrs (A.Y. 2006-07)
  • Microeconomia applicata/Microeconometria - 36 hrs (A.Y. 2005-06, 2004-05)
  • Econometria dei mercati finanziari B (Advanced Financial Econometrics) - assistant (A.Y. 2005–06, 2004–05, 2003–04)

Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy)

Dipartimento di Economia e Produzione

  • Econometria - assistant (A.Y. 1997–98)

Scuola Enrico Mattei (ENI), San Donato Milanese (Italy)

Master MEDEA (Management ed Economia dell’Energia e dell’Ambiente)

  • Metodi matematici per la gestione d’impresa - assistant (A.Y. 2004–05, 2003–04, 1997–98, 1996–97)

Projects

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All Statistics Economics Mathematics Psychology

Approximation of Stochastic Programming Problems

In Stochastic Programming, Statistics or Econometrics, one often looks for the solution of optimization problems of the following form: \begin{equation} \inf_{\theta\in\Theta} \mathbb{E}_{\mathbb{P}_{}} g(\cdot,\theta)=\inf_{\theta\in\Theta} \int_{\mathbb{R}^{q}}g(y,\theta)\mathbb{P}_{}(dy) \end{equation} where $\Theta$ is a Borel subset of $\mathbb{R}^{p}$ and $\mathbb{P}$ is a probability measure defined on $\mathbf{Y}=\mathbb{R}^{q}$ endowed with its Borel $\sigma$-field $\mathcal{B}(\mathbf{Y})$ (but more general spaces can be considered).

Bioeconomy

The increasing importance of biological sciences for creating value added in many economic sectors contributed to the rise of the now popular term “bioeconomy,” referring to “the set of economic activities relating to the invention, development, production and use of biological products and processes” (OECD, 2009), which are characterized by the accent on the reduction of environmental pollution and the adoption of sustainable practices.

Inference for Simulation Models

Still to be written

Psychological Measurement

Measurement theory is “a field of study that examines the attribution of values to traits, characteristics, or constructs. Measurement theory focuses on assessing the true score of an attribute, such that an obtained value has a close correspondence with the actual quantity” (APA Dictionary of Psychology, 2nd ed.

Statistical Testing

Still to be written

Uniformity of Points

Quantifying uniformity of a configuration of points on a space is a topic that is receiving growing attention in computer science, physics and mathematics. The problem has interesting connections with statistics, where several tests of uniformity have been introduced.

Upcoming Talks

Dec 6, 2024 — Dec 7, 2024 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Estimation of DSGE models by non-Gaussian Vector Autoregressions

International conference

Project Follow

Past Talks

Model Selection in a Creative Destruction Setting
Oct 8, 2024 — Oct 10, 2024 online
Nudging sustainability: exploring bioplastic preferences through consumer choices
Sep 10, 2024 — Sep 11, 2024 Bochum, Germany
Estimation of DSGE models by non-Gaussian Vector Autoregressions
Aug 26, 2024 — Aug 30, 2024 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Equifinality and model selection in econometrics
Jun 27, 2024 9:00 AM — 10:30 AM Como, Italy
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Recent Publications

Daniele Bruno, Marco Orlando, Edoardo Testa, Marco Carnevale Miino, Giulia Pesaro, Matteo Miceli, Loredano Pollegioni, Vincenzina Barbera, Elisa Fasoli, Lorenza Draghi, Alberto Pietro Damiano Baltrocchi, Navarro Ferronato, Raffaello Seri, Elena Maggi, Silvia Caccia, Morena Casartelli, Gianluca Molla, Maurizio Galimberti, Vincenzo Torretta, Andrea Vezzulli, Gianluca Tettamanti (2024). Valorisation of Organic Waste Through Black Soldier Fly: On the Way of a Real Circular Bioeconomy Process. Waste Management, 191(2025), 123–134.

PDF Project DOI

Raffaello Seri (2023). Asymptotic Distributions of Covering and Separation Measures on the Hypersphere. Discrete & Computational Geometry, 69, 285-299.

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Andrew Delios, Elena Giulia Clemente, Tao Wu, Hongbin Tan, Yong Wang, Michael Gordon, Domenico Viganola, Zhaowei Chen, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Generalizability Tests Forecasting Collaboration, Eric Luis Uhlmann, Raffaello Seri (2022). Examining the context sensitivity of research findings from archival data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(30), e2120377119.

PDF DOI

Raffaello Seri (2022). Computing the Asymptotic Distribution of Second-order $U$- and $V$-statistics. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 174, 107437.

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Raffaello Seri, Davide Secchi, Mario Martinoli (2022). Randomness, Emergence and Causation: A Historical Perspective of Simulation in the Social Sciences. Complexity and Emergence, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Italy, July 22–27, 2018, edited by S. Albeverio, E. Mastrogiacomo, E. Rosazza Gianin and S. Ugolini, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics 383, Springer, pp. 163-195.

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Press coverage

“Dipartimento di Eccellenza 2023–27” Project

Piano di Governo del Territorio, Comune di Varese, 2023-2025

ProPla (Proteins from Plastics) Project, 2023

RICH (Turning Rubbish Into biobased materials: a sustainable CHain for the full valorization of organic waste) Project, 2021

HAPPY (Happy: Health, Accessibility, Public transport Policies for elderlY) Project

Second Summer School «Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies», 2022

Summer School “Bioeconomy school: from basic science to a new economy”, 2021

Summer School «Economic Behaviours: Models, Measurements, and Policies», 2019

Summer School “The Evolution of the Economic Theory of Decision-making”, 2017

Major “Economics of Innovation” in MSc “Global Entrepreneurship, Economics and Management”

Popular Topics

Bioeconomy Convex analysis Econometrics Experimental Economics Geometry Harmonic analysis Industrial Economics Insurance theory Management Marketing Mathematical Biology Mathematical Psychology Numerical Analysis Operations Research Organizational behavior Philosophy Probability Theory Public economics Statistics Stochastic geometry

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