Dr. Marco Cozzi
Associate Teaching Professor
Economics
- Contact:
- Office: BEC 368 mcozzi@uvic.ca 250-721-6535
- Credentials:
- PhD (UCL)
- Area of expertise:
- Macroeconomics, Empirical Microeconomics, Computational Economics
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Bio
Marco Cozzi joined the Department of Economics in the summer of 2015. Before joining the University of Victoria, he was an assistant professor at Queen's University.
He received a PhD in economics from University College London, UK, and an MA in economics from Bocconi University, Italy.
Interests
- Quantitative Macroeconomics
- Heterogeneous-Agent Models
- Empirical Microeconomics
- Calibration Methods
- Computational Economics
- Economics of Crime
Selected Publications
- Cozzi, M. Public Debt and Welfare in a Quantitative Schumpeterian Growth Model with Incomplete Markets, Journal of Macroeconomics, (2023, Article 103539).
- Cozzi, M. "Do Wealth Shocks Matter for the Life Satisfaction of the Elderly? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study," Economics Bulletin, Vol. 44 (1), 2024, p. 88-98 (with Qiushan Li).
- Cozzi, M. "An Aggregation-Consistent Implementation of the Hamilton Filter," Applied Economics Letters, published online June 6th 2024.
- Cozzi, M. and G. Fella, 2016. "Job displacement risk and severance pay," Journal of Monetary Economics. First published online 9/11/16.
- Cozzi, M., "The Krusell-Smith algorithm: are self-fulfilling equilibria likely?,"Computational Economics, 2015,46 (4), 653-670. First published online 30/10/14.
- Cozzi, M., 2014. "Equilibrium heterogeneous-agent models as measurement tools: some Monte Carlo evidence," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 39(C): 208-226.
- Cozzi, M., "Optimal unemployment insurance in GE: a Robust calibration approach," Economics Letters 117(1): 28-31.
Book Chapters
- Cozzi, M. 2013. Precautionary Savings and Wealth Inequality: a Global Sensitivity Analysis. Chapter 9 (pp. 195-222) in Calibration Technology, Theories and Applications, edited by I. Fujimoto and K. Nishimura. Nova Science Publishers.