Dear Guest,

Welcome to my home page!

I was born on the 30th of March, 1976, in Modena and I grew up in a very nice city in the centre of Italy, Pescara.

Then, in 1995, I moved to Milan to attend a degree course in Economics at Bocconi University. After my undergraduate studies, I decided to stop at Bocconi for some more years to attend a MSc in Economics and a Doctoral program in International Law and Economics.

Actually (never getting bored with economics), I have also a PhD in Economics at the School of Social Science - University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). My supervisor was Robert Sugden. My PhD committee was composed by Anders Poulsen and Martin Sefton. My PhD thesis was titled: "Contribution to Locally Enjoyed Public Goods, Herding Behavior and Common Fate Effect: Three Essays in Collective Decision Making."

I am financially supported by the University of Padua where I am Assistant Professor in Public Economics at the Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno." Before moving to Padova, I was Research Fellow at the ISLA, Bocconi University.

My research interests include Public Choice, Experimental Economics and Ethics in Economics. 

I am married with Laura (the best finding in my life) since June 2005. Since December 2007, Filippo, an angel fallen down from heaven, takes care of us. We live together in a very (maybe too) quiet village on the Maggiore lake, Somma Lombardo.

Apart from studying agents' behavior in their daily-life situations, I love trekking, travelling and (of course) reading.