Education

• 2002 - 2006 Ph.D. in Economics and Management, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy (English taught program).
• 1997 - 2002 Laurea in Economics 110/110 cum laude, University of Trento. Exams plan in Money and Finance. Title of the thesis "The Financial Markets and the Wealth Effects: an Experimental Analysis". Supervisor Prof. Roberto Tamborini.
• 1997 Secondary School Diploma - Technical Commercial Institute in Predazzo (TN), 60/60. (Accountancy school).

Skills

• Italian: mother-tongue;
• English: fluent (TOEFL computer-based score: 273)
• German: good
• Good knowledge of Windows and Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point). Knowledge of matematical-statistical packages (Matlab, Stata). Good knowledge of Linux operating system (SUSE) and main open source applications (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Emacs). Skills in Web pages creation and L A T E X writing .

Scholarships, Prizes and Attainments

• January 2004 6 th place "Angelo Costa" prize promoted by the scientific journal "Rivista di Politica Economica".
• September 2002 Full scholarship for the Ph.D. program at S. Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.

Research interests

Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics, Behavioral Game Theory, Cognitive aspects of Economic Decisions, Free/Open Source Software

Publications

Articles in refereed journals

• "The Impact of Payoff Interdependence on Trust and Trustworthiness", The German Economic Review (accepted for publication) (with Werner Gueth and M. Vittoria Levati)
• "Social identity and trust: An experimental investigation", The Journal of Socio-Economics (accepted for publication) (with Werner Gueth and M. Vittoria Levati)
• "Is Satisficing Absorbable: An Experimental Study", The Journal of Behavioral Finance (accepted for publication) (with Werner Gueth and M. Vittoria Levati)

Articles in proceedings and collections

• "The Effect of Group Identity in an Investment Game" (2005) in Kokinov, B. Advances in Cognitive Economics, Sofia: NBU Press (with Werner Gueth and M. Vittoria Levati)

Working Papers

• Is Satisficing Absorbable? An Experimental Study (with Werner Gueth and M. Vittoria Levati)
• Is It Just Legitimacy of Endowments? An Experimental Analysis of Unilateral Giving (with Luigi Mittone)
• On the social dimension of time and risk preferences: An experimental study (with Werner Gueth and M. Vittoria Levati)
• The Impact of payoff interdependence on trust an trustworthiness (with Werner Gueth and M. Vittoria Levati)
• Trust and Intention Detection: An Experimental Investigation of Motivational Crowding Out
• The Effect of Group Identity in an Investment Game (with Werner Gueth and M. Vittoria Levati)
• Skills and Openness of OSS Projects: Implications for Performance (with Paola Giuri, Francesco Rullani and Salvatore Torrisi)
• Groups and Social Norms in the Economic Context: A Preliminary Experimental Investigation (with Ivan Soraperra)
• The Financial Markets and Wealth Effects On Consumption: An Experimental Analysis

 

Additional Information

Sports: Snowboarding, Climbing, Mountain Biking

 

 

 

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