Come rallentare un processo di contagio?
Chi sarà il primo ad infettarsi in un processo di contagio? I prof. Luca Riccetti (Università di Macerata) e Valerio Leone Sciabolazza (Università di Napoli) stanno lavorando a una misura per individuare i nodi più importanti dove intervenire per rallentare un processo di diffusione virale, il Diffusion Delay Centrality.
Luca Riccetti is associate professor of Economics at the University of Macerata. Previously he was researcher of Banking and Finance at the Sapienza University of Rome. Before he was post-doc at the Marche Polytechnic University, working in the European Community project “Forecasting Financial Crises”. At the Marche Polytechnic University he obtained a Ph.D. and a master in Economics. During the Ph.D. he was visiting students at the Moscow State University. He graduated at Bocconi University and worked two years in the financial sector. His main research interests include the analysis of macroeconomic relationships between the “real” economy and the financial system, monetary policy, and portfolio allocation. He published papers on important journals such as the “Journal of Banking & Finance”, the “Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control”, the “Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization”, “Economic Modelling”, the “Journal of Evolutionary Economics”, the “International Review of Economics & Finance”, and "Macroeconomic Dynamics".
Valerio Leone Sciabolazza is assistant professor at the University of Naples, Parthenope. He is an applied economist and his research interests center on spatial econometrics, the econometrics of networks, and the new science of networks. Before joining Parthenope, he has been a Postdoc Associate at the Swedish Institute for Social Studies (SOFI), and at the University of Florida (UF). He conducts research on the causal effect of social networks on socio-economic behavior. He has mainly contributed to the study of the role played by social connections in determining legislative behavior, migration decisions, and scientists' productivity.
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