Facilities
Lectures and seminars take place in reserved classrooms featuring video projectors, instructor computers, and traditional blackboards.
Students have access to two dedicated study rooms with Wi-Fi and printer facilities at the Department of Economics and Management in Pavia.
The Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods at the University of Milan offers a fully equipped computer lab with 16 workstations.
Additionally, there are two exclusive study rooms for PhD students and approximately 30 computer workstations at the University of Milan.
Libraries
Students can access the integrated library system of the University of Pavia, which includes a wide range of economic and bibliographic databases. The Economics Library in Pavia houses 1,400 periodicals and 41,000 monographs.
The University of Milan provides free access to its Digital Library, offering a vast collection of online journals. The collection includes materials from the Political Science section of the Department of Legal Sciences "C. Beccaria," focusing on economic and statistical sciences. The Political Science Library in Milan holds 175,000 volumes and provides access to 520,000 e-books. It also hosts the European Documentation Center and offers access to search engines and specialized portals. Furthermore, the Digital Library of the University of Milan grants access to 70,000 online journals, 240 bibliographic databases, and 5,243 digital journals specifically related to economics.
Databases
Students are granted access to the following databases: Datastream, IMF, World Bank, OECD, ECB, EUROSTAT, U.S. BLS, Bloomberg, Orbis, Fact-Net. COMEXT EU trade; Banksco. Int. Social Survey ISSP, (EU-SILC), (ECHP), Eur Labour Force Surveys. Wharton WRDS. CRSP: 1925 US Stock Database, US Mutual Fund Database. American Hospital Association tier 1 Data. S&P Global Market Intelligence: Compustat (ExecuComp), Sustainalytics. Factset: Revere Industry Classification, Revere Relationship Data, and Revere Geographic Revenue; AIDA.
Software
The University of Pavia provides students with access to STATA, Mathematica, and MATLAB.
At the University of Milan, students can use STATA for quantitative analysis through a license provided by the Department of Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods (DEMM). Students have free access (home usage) to MATLAB and SPSS through the Campus contract of the University of Milan. Additionally, they can access specialized software obtained through research funds from faculty members of affiliated universities (e.g., EViews, Maple, Scientific Workplace).