About me

I earned my PhD from the London School of Economics, where I later served as Assistant Professor and received tenure in 2014. In 2017, I returned to Italy and joined the University of Brescia, where I am currently Associate Professor of Economics.

My research combines microeconomic theory and game theory to study externalities and collective action, as well as the intended and unintended effects of public policies. My original, and still relevant, field of application is environmental economics. More recently, I have turned my attention to another class of highly relevant externalities related to the generation and transmission of information. In the context of social media, I have studied recommendation algorithms and the interaction between data extraction, privacy concerns, and platform business models, with implications for the regulation and taxation of digital advertising revenues. I have also investigated the long-term impact of research funding and evaluation systems on scientific knowledge production and innovation.