Education

2006  

PhD. In Economics and Management.
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
Title of the thesis “Three Essays on Norms and Social Preferences”.
Supervisors: Giovanni Dosi and Lorenzo Sacconi.
February, 7th 2006.
 
1999    

Post-graduate degree  in Decision Theory and Institutions  at University of Castellanza, Italy, with full marks 110 out 110 cum laude.

1998  

B.A.  in Sociology, University of Trento, Italy, on July, 1st,  with full marks 110 out 110 cum laude.

 

 
Academic career and teaching activities

Current position.

Since June 2018.
Associate professor, Economic Policy, Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy.

Since August 20th, 2018:
National scientific qualification as Full professor of Economic Policy.  

External member of  Institute of Economics of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced studies, Pisa, Italy


Past positions.


June 2015- May 2018
Assistant professor (RTD  B)  at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy.

Italian National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Economic Policy (13/A2)  (December 2013).


February 2011- May 2015.
Assistant professor at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Italy.

2008-2011
Post- Doc fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Trento, Italy.

2006-2008
Post- Doc fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Trento, Italy.

2004-2006
Research assistant at the Department of Economics / Department of Computer and Management Sciences of the University of Trento, Italy.
    
2003-2004
Research assistant at the Department of Law of the University of Teramo, Italy.

1999-2000
Research assistant at the Centre for Ethics, Law and Economics (CELE) of the University Carlo Cattaneo, Castellanza, Italy

 
Research interests

Economics of institutions and organizations; behavioral and experimental economics; bounded rationality; ethics & economics.
Research work

Participation in research projects.

2017 – 2021

“Social impact finance for the Trentino Region: a study on the relation between financial tools, governance forms and motivations”.
Financed by Fondazione Caritro, Trento, Italy.
Role: member of the research group
Coordinator: Lorenzo Sacconi, University of Trento.

“Social impact finance for a new generation of social entrepreneurs.”
Financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.
Role: coordinator of the local unit, University of Trento.
Coordinator: Marco Giorgino, Politecnico di Milano
The project involves the Politecnico di Milano and the universities of Trento, Bologna, Napoli and Torino.


“The role of community foundations in the promotion of donations: a focus on Munus foundation”.
Financed by Fondazione Munus, Parma, Italy.
Role: member of the research group.
Coordinator: Giacomo Degli Antoni, University of Parma.


“The effects of good practices of social responsibility on consumers’ choices”
Financed by FLAI-CGIL, Parma, Italy.
Role: coordinator (with Giacomo degli Antoni, University of Parma,  Tommaso Poletti, CGIL Parma, Davide Dazzi, Ires-Emilia Romagna).

2015- 2020

“Business Ethics: Normativity And Economic Behavior  2 (Beneb2)”
Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy.
Role: member of the local unit, University of Trento.
Coordinator: Pedro Frances Gomez,  University of Granada.

2013-2017
“Hedonic approach and field experiment for assessing the relationship between immigration and social cohesion”.
Financed by the Interdisciplinary Center for the Research in Economics, Psychology and Social sciences (CISEPS), University of Milano-Bicocca.
Role: member of research team.
Coordinator: Alessandra Michelangeli,  University of Milano-Bicocca.

2011-2014

“Business Ethics: Normativity and Economic Behavior  (BENEB)”
Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy.
Role: member of the local unit, University of Trento.
 Coordinator: Pedro Frances Gomez,  University of Granada.


2010-2011

“Social Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility And Performance: The Unexplored Links”
Financed by the Italian Ministry of Education,  University  and  Research.
Role: member of the local unit, University of Milano-Bicocca.
Coordinator: Leonardo Becchetti. University of Roma-Tor Vergata.

2008-2009

“Endogenous institutions in trade networks: some lessons from history”.
Financed by the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy.
Role: member of the research team.
Coordinated by Andrea Bonoldi. University of Trento.

2008

“Social Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility and Local Economic Development”.  Financed the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy.
Role:  member of the research team.
Coordinator: Lorenzo Sacconi, University of Trento.

2007-2008

“Corporate social responsibility as extended form of corporate governance”.
Financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.
Role: member of the local unit, University of Trento.
Coordinator: Lorenzo Sacconi. University of Trento.

2005-2007

 “The economic role of Nonprofit Organizations”.
Financed by the Italian Ministry of University,  Scientific and Technological Research.
Role: member of the local unit, University of Trento.
Coordinator: Carlo Borzaga, University of Trento.

2002- 2004

NORMEC “The Normative Dimension of Action and Order”.
Financed by the European Commission (Project reference: HPSE-CT-2001-00081)
Role: member of the Italian team.
Local coordinator: Luigi Marengo, University of Teramo.

 
Memberships in societies and scientific committees

Member of the board of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (2021 - present)
Conferences and lectures

PARTICIPATION

19th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Brescia, December 13-15, 2023.

18th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics LUMSA University
Palermo, December 14-16, 2022.

12th International Conference of the French Association of Experimental Economics, 30th June and 1st July 2022, Lyon (France).

2022 Virtual Asia Pacific-Economic Science Association (ESA) Meeting, 16-18 March, 2022 (Online, organized by Osaka University).

SIDE-ISLE 16th Annual Conference, University of Trento, 15-17 December 2021.

European Business Network (EBEN) Online Workshop “ Shared Responsibilities for a New Social Contract” , Online, 7 December 2021.

SIDE-ISLE 15th Annual Conference, University of Milan, 19-21 December 2019.

Heirs 2019 – The Community of Advantage, LUMSA University, Rome, Italy, 21-22 November 2019.

Southern European Experimental Team, 10th Workshop, Ibiza, 6-8 Spain, February, 2019.

IAREP/SABE Conference, Middlesex University, London, 20-23 July 2018.

Decision Making for Others 2018, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2-3 July 2018.

Euricse International Workshop: Cooperation as a coordination mechanism.
Trento, Italy, 4-5 December 2017.

11th International Max Planck Research School-Uncertainty Topics Workshop, 27-29 September 2017, School of Social Sciences,  Trento.

    Norms in the Lab. Business Ethics: Normativity and Economic Behavior (BENEB 2) International Workshop, Granada, Spain, 26-27 June, 2017.

Fourth International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences (IMEBESS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 27-29 April 2017.

3rd International Conference on Economic  Philosophy, Aix-en-Provence, France June 15-16, 2016.

2016 Labsi Lab2 Workshop on Game Theory and Experimental Methods, Capua, Italy, June 6-7, 2016.

Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS) International Conference on “Assessing wellbeing when preferences are incoherent”, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 3-6 April 2016.
    
Experiment a BIT. II Annual Workshop on Experimental Economics, Bolzano , Innsbruck and Trento research groups.  Trento, 28 September 2015.

Economic Science Association – European Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany, 2-5 September 2015.

International Workshop on “The Social Contract in Corporate and Economic Ethics”, University of Granada,  Spain, 22-23 May 2015.

10Th International meeting of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (SIDE-ISLE), Rome,     18-20 December 2014.    

55th Scientific meeting of the Italian Economic Association, Trento, Italy, 23-25 October     2014.

An International Workshop on Social Norms and Social Preferences, Trento, 24-25 May 2013.

2013 Florence Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Florence, May 2-4, 2013.

2012 EBEN (European Business Ethics Network) Research Conference, Newcastle, UK, 7-9 June 2012.

14th World Congress of  Social Economics, Glasgow, Scotland, UK June 20-22, 2012

International workshop on “Altruism and morality. Experiments and concepts”, Zurich, 24-26 November, 2011.

HEIRs International Conference on “Market and Happiness. Do economic interactions crowd out civic virtues and human capabilities?”, Milano, Italy, 8-9 June, 2011.

International Workshop on “The Determinants and Implications of Prosocial Behaviour”, University of Southampton, UK, 6-7 May, 2011.

2011 Florence Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Florence, Italy, April 29-30 2011.

51st Scientific Meeting of the Italian Economic Association,  Catania, Italy  15-16 October 2010.

European Business Ethics Network –EBEN Conference 2010 “Which values for which organizations”, Trento, Italy,  9 -11 September 2010.

International Summer School on “New approaches to the study of enterprises: the role of motivation”,  Trento – Italy,  29 August -  9 September 2010.

Economic Science Association – World Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-11 July 2010.
    
Corporate Governance after the Crisis: the Multi-stakeholder Approach, Milano, Italy, 24-25 June, 2010.

Economic Science Association - European Meeting 2009, Innsbruck, Austria 17 – 20 September 2009.

International Summer School on “Economic Behavior, Law and Organizations, Arco, Italy 18-25 July 2009.

2nd EMES International Conference on Social Enterprise, Trento, Italy, July 1-4, 2009.

International Conference on Happiness and Relational Goods, Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy, June 11-13, 2009.

1st Workshop of the Italian Society for Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Firenze, 14-15 May, 2009.

3rd Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics 14-15 November, 2008, Copenhagen (Denmark).

International Summer School on “Why isn’t Ethics a Behavioural Science ?”, Trento, 24-28  
September 2008.

Economic Science Association (ESA) European Regional Meeting, Lyon, France,  September 11-14, 2008.

Urrutia Elejalde XI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy: Social Norms, San Sebastian, Spain, July 14-18, 2008.

Workshop on “Social Economics. The Young Economists’ Contribution”, Forlì, Italy, 6-7 June 2008.

International Conference on “Dynamic Capabilities and Beyond”, Graduate School of Management State University, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 9, 2007.

Third Conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (SIDE- ISLE), Bocconi University, Milan, Italy,  November 9-10, 2007

International Conference on “Social Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Economic Development” , Trento, July 24-25, 2007

International Conference on “Reciprocity, theories and facts”, Verbania  February 22-24, 2007.

Workshop “Non-Profit Organisations, Social Enterprises and Social Responsibility”, 2-3 February  2007

Workshop on “Civil economics: the young economists’ contribution”, Forlì, Italy, 9-10 June 2006.

International Workshop on Behavioral Game Theory and Experiments, Capua , Italy, 11-13 May 2006.

International Conference on Cognitive Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria, 5-8 August 2005.

II International Meeting on “Happiness "Economical and Psychological Perspectives on Decisions" , Workshop on “Happiness, Economics and Interpersonal Relationships”, Trento, Italy, 4-5 December 2004.

Normec International Seminar “Morality, Norms and Economics”, DINAMIA- ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal, 17-18 September 2004. 

 

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
 

December 2022.
SIDE – ISLE (Italian Society of Law and Economics) Annual conference. 
Organization of the special track on “Disclosure and Labeling Regulation in the Food Industry: A Behavioral Law & Economics Perspective”
Palermo, Italy, 14-16 December 2022.

December 2021.
SIDE – ISLE (Italian Society of Law and Economics) Annual conference. 
Organization of the special track on “Non egoistic motivations, social enterprises and social impact finance”, Trento, Italy, 17 December 2021.

July 2019
(with Sandro Casal, Luigi Mittone, Azzurra Monreale and Matteo Ploner)
6th Shadow Economy Conference: Tax  Evasion and Economic Inequality, Trento, Italy, 13-15 July 2019

May 2013.
(with Luciano Andreozzi and Lorenzo Sacconi).
An International Workshop on Social Norms and Social Preferences, Trento, 24-25 May 2013.

October 2012.
(with Luciano Andreozzi).
Risk and Social Preferences. An International Workshop.
Trento,  18-19 October 2012.

July  2009.
(with  Lorenzo Sacconi).

International Summer School on “Economic Behavior, Law and Organizations. Advances in the behavioral and experimental approach to the economics of organizations, firms, contracts and the economic analysis of the Law”, Arco, Italy, 18-25 July 2009.
(Lectures by: Christine Jolls, Shaun Hargreaves-Heap, Luigi Marengo, Christian Zehnder, Henry E. Smith, Avner Ben-Ner).

September 2008.
(with  Lorenzo Sacconi, Stefania Ottone and Luciano Andreozzi).

International Summer School on “Why isn’t ethics a behavioural science?”, Pergine Valsuga- Trento, September 25-28, 2008.
(Lectures by: K. Binmore, M. Dufwenberg, T. Ellingsen, S. Hargreaves-Heap, L. Sacconi).

July  2007.
(with  Lorenzo Sacconi and Giacomo Degli Antoni).

International Workshop and of the Summer School on “Social Capital ,Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Economic Development”, Trento, Italy, 24-29 July 2007.

July 2006.
(with  Lorenzo Sacconi and Giacomo Degli Antoni).

International Economic Association Research Workshop on “Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance. The Contribution of Economic Theory and Related Disciplines”, Trento, Italy 11-13 July 2006.

July 2005
(with  Lorenzo Sacconi).

Summer School on “Explaining the Emergence and Design of Institutions, Norms and Contracts. The Contribution of Evolutionary and Behavioral Game Theory”, Trento, Italy  4-9 July 2005. 
(Lectures by: K. Binmore, H. Gintis,  J. Weibull, S. Gaechter, G. Ponti, L. Sacconi).

September 2004.
(with  Lorenzo Sacconi).

Summer School on “Game Theory Ethics and Economics”, Trento, Italy  6-18 September 2004.
(Lectures by: S. Hargreaves Heap, J. Weibull, J. Broome., W. Rabinowicz, B. Skyrms, L. Mittone, L. Sacconi, M. Kosfeld).
 
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