As the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) certified with its Research Quality Assessment exercises, as well as the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research with the assignment of the Departments of Excellence grant, research is a strength of DEMS. Since the member of DEMS are scholars of various disciplines, also the research topics are rather diverse and interdisciplinary. The main research topics of DEMS are:

• Economic (micro & macro) Theory
• Applied Economics (micro & macro)
• Experimental Economics
• Econometrics
• Economic History
• Mathematical Statistics
• Applied Statistics
• Marketing
• Business strategy, organisation, innovation