Welcome to my web page. I am a Professor at the University of Toronto, chief scientist at Behavioural Economics in Action @ Rotman, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a fellow at CESifo, the U of T Centre for Ethics, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, the Canadian Centre for Health Economics, the Gender and the Economy Institute at Rotman, and the Bureau of Research on Innovation, Knowledge and Complexity.

My research concerns the ethical constraints and social support to markets, the motivations for altruistic behavior, and various topics in industrial and innovation economics.

Here is my CV

Working papers and current research

  • Does Scientific Progress Affect Cultural Changes? A Digital Text Analysis (with Michela Giorcelli and Astrid Marinoni), NBER Working Paper No. 25429. Revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Growth.

  • Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The role of Expectations and Duration (with Guglielmo Briscese, Mario Macis and Mirco Tonin), NBER Working Paper 26916.

  • Leaning In or not Leaning Out? Choice Architecture and Women’s Leadership Ascension (with Joyce He and Sonia Kang), NBER Working Paper 26484.

  • Sticky prices for declining risk? Cancellation premia in the hotel industry (with Claudio Piga and Lorenzo Zirulia), NBER Working Paper 28456.

  • Constraint or Choice: Relaxing isolation norms and consumers’ intentions (with Guglielmo Briscese, Mario Macis and Mirco Tonin).

  • What is Repugnant? The Empirics of Morally Contested Transactions (with Julio Elias and Mario Macis).

  • Enhancing Organ Donor Registration Rates through Strengthening ServiceOntario Customer Representatives’ Motivations: Observational Studies and Field Interventions (with Julian House, Audrey Laporte, Mario Macis, Frank Markel and Nina Mazar).

  • Altruism, Ethics and Markets: A Behavioral and Neuroscientific Experimental Study (with Mario Macis, Vikram Chib and Jeffrey Kahn).

  • The Making of Moral Repugnance (with Matt Feinberg and Lisa Kramer).

Published and forthcoming papers (click on titles to open)

Other publications

Note: All published articles are the sole copyright of the respective publishers. Materials are provided for educational use only. Downloading of materials constitutes an agreement that the materials are for personal use only. The links to supplementary materials, where available, direct to Appendices and, in some cases, to data and codes. Some of the data used in the studies reported above are part of proprietary or confidential datasets. Researchers interested in these data can contact me to make arrangements on how to access and use the data.