The team conducts and supports high quality research in the field of market and business analytics. Economic models relative to products, processes and infrastructure assets are specified and estimated for analyzing complex business and market problems and quantifying the effects of context, technology and regulatory environment changes. Research on analytics is using several approaches, quantitative methods and tools that provide descriptive analytics (scorecards, clustering, basic statistics), prescriptive analytics (DEA, optimization, simulation) and predictive analytics (econometric modeling, statistical and machine learning techniques) to derive actionable insights and outcomes from available data. Research is focused on the following 2 major streams: Infrastructure planning and economics; Benchmarking and competitiveness (products, processes, and assets).