Profile

Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University “Niccolò Cusano” (where he also teaches Probability and Statistics and Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering and Economics), former Expert at the European Commission (HORIZON Expert Group at the JRC/Joint Research Center of the European Commission), and Member of the Working Group “Market Competition Innovation” of the Technical Table on Industrial Policies of the Ministry of Economic Development on a free basis. Carlo holds a PhD in Statistics from the University ‘Federico II’ of Naples. During his academic career, he was first a researcher in Probability and Mathematical Statistics and then a researcher in Economic Statistics at the Niccolò Cusano University. Carlo’s academic interests are methodologically oriented towards Machine Learning, both Unsupervised and Supervised Learning, and applied to energy, health and social economic issues such as poverty. Carlo has recently published in leading international journals, including Scientific Reports, Energy Policy, Business Strategy and the Environment, Technovation, Energy Research & Social Science, Quality & Quantity, Cliometrica among others.

Publications

• Drago, C. (2021). The Analysis and the Measurement of Poverty: An Interval-Based Composite Indicator Approach. Economies, 9(4), 145.

• Ruggeri, M., Drago, C., Mandolini, D., Francesa Morel, P., Mencacci, C., & Starace, F. (2021). The costs of treatment resistant depression: evidence from a survey among Italian patients. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, 1-8.

• Gatto, A., & Drago, C. (2021). When renewable energy, empowerment, and entrepreneurship connect: Measuring energy policy effectiveness in 230 countries. Energy Research & Social
  Science, 78, 101977.

• Ruggeri, M., Signorini, A., Drago, C., Rosiello, F., & Marchetti, M. (2020). Modello di stima dei costi sanitari e della capacity delle terapie intensive in Italia nel trattamento di pazienti affetti da COVID-19: valutazione dell’impatto di remdesivir. AboutOpen, 7(1), 95-102.

• Ruggeri, M., & Drago, C.(2020) Is risk attitude toward health outcomes context driven?.Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 1-15.

• Ruggeri M. Drago C.Damiani G. Francesconi P. Gualdani E.and Barletta V. (2020) “The impact on patients satisfaction of the introduction of new health professional roles. Evidences from the MUNROS EU-funded project” Giornale Italiano di Farmacoeconomia e Farmacoutilizzazione.

• Ruggeri M., Drago C., Cadeddu C., Armuzzi A., Leone S. and Marchetti M. (2020) The Determinants of Out-of-Pocket Expenditure in IBD Italian Patients. Results from the AMICI Survey. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(21), 8156; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218156

• Ruggeri, M., Drago, C., Rosiello, F., Orlando, V., & Santori, C. (2020). Economic Evaluation of Treatments for Migraine: An Assessment of the Generalizability Following a Systematic Review. PharmacoEconomics, 1-12.

• Gatto, A., & Drago, C. (2020). Measuring and modeling energy resilience. Ecological Economics, 172, 106527.

• Gatto, A., & Drago, C. (2020). A taxonomy of energy resilience. Energy Policy, 136, 111007.

• Drago, C., & Ricciuti, R. (2020). Bootstrapping the Gini Index of the Network Degree: An Application for Italian Corporate Governance. In Challenges in Social Network Research (pp. 49-62). Springer, Cham.

• Drago C. Ricciuti R. (2019) An interval variables approach to address measurement uncertainty in governance indicators. Economics Bulletin, 2019, 39, (1), 626-635

• Drago, C., & Ruggeri, M. (2019). Setting research priorities in the field of emergency management: which piece of information are you willing to pay more?. Quality & Quantity, 53(4), 2103-2115.

• Drago C. (2019) Clustering Communities using Interval K-Means In book: New Statistical Developments in Data Science – A. Petrucci, F. Racioppi, R. Verde (Editors) Edition: series: PROMS Publisher: Springer.