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Academic Positions:
Professor, Department of Economics, University of Essex, U.K., since October 2020
Reader, Department of Economics, University of Essex, U.K., October 2013 to September 2020
Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Essex, U.K., August 2005 to September 2013
Post-doctoral Fellow, GREMAQ, University of Toulouse, France, September 2006 to August 2007
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, May 2005
M. Phil., Economics, Yale University, 2003
M.A., Economics, Yale University, 2002
M.A., Economics and Finance, University of Naples “Federico II” (Naples, Italy), 2000
Laurea summa cum laude, International Economics, Istituto Universitario Navale (Naples, Italy), 1999
Research Interests:
Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Industrial Organization , Decision Theory
Publications:
Data Markets with Privacy-Conscious Consumers (with Alessandro Bonatti)
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023.
Similarity Nash Equilibria in Statistical Games (with Itzhak Gilboa) - American Economic Journal – Microeconomics, Forthcoming
Second-Order Induction in Prediction Problems (with Itzhak Gilboa) - PNAS, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901597116
Bias and Negligence with Freedom of Information (with Helen Weeds) - The Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (624): 2979–2998, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez026
Perception-Theoretic Foundations of Weighted Utilitarianism (with Itzhak Gilboa) - The Economic Journal, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12622 .
Psychophysical Foundations of the Cobb-Douglas Utility Function (with Itzhak Gilboa) - Economics Letters, 2017, 157. 21 - 23.
Strategic Information Acquisition and Transmission (with Sergei Severinov and Francesco Squintani) - American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, 2016, 8(3):119-55
Clustering in N-Player Preemption Games (with Philipp Schmidt-Dengler) - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (2): 368-396
Competition, Timing of Entry and Welfare in a Preemption Game(with Philipp Schmidt-Dengler) - Economics Letters, 2013, 120: 509–512
History as a Coordination Device (with Itzhak Gilboa) - Theory and Decision, 2012, 73 (4): 501-512
Inefficient Entry Order in Preemption Games (with Philipp Schmidt-Dengler) - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2012, 48 (6). pp. 445-460.
Asymmetric Networks in Two-Sided Markets (with Attila Ambrus) - American Economic Journal – Microeconomics, 2009, 1 (1): 17-52.
Differentiated Networks: Equilibrium and Efficiency - RAND Journal of Economics, 2008, 39 (3): 747-769. - Web Appendix
Research Grants:
Leverhulme Research Fellowship “A Belief Formation Analysis of the Evolution of Social Processes”
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant “Information Revelation and Consumer Privacy”
ESRC Research Grant “General Preemption Games and Their Applications to Industrial Economics” (joint with Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, LSE)
Editorial Activity:
Associate Editor – Journal of Industrial Economics, 2020-
Fellowships, Honors and Awards:
Young Economist Award, Austrian Economic Association, 2008
Young Economists Essay Award, EARIE, 2006
Robert M. Leylan Fellowship, Yale University, 2004
John F. Enders Fund Award, Yale University, 2004
Cowles Foundation Prize, Yale University, Summer 2004
Cowles Foundation Prize, Yale University, Summer 2003
John Perry Miller Award, Yale University, 2003
Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2004
Guido Magliano Award, University of Naples “Federico II” (Naples, Italy), (2000)
Angelo Costa Award, Rivista di Politica Economica, (2000)
Teaching Experience:
Environmental Economics (undergraduate)
Market Structure and Strategic Behaviour (undergraduate)
Economics of Organisational Management (undergraduate)
International Trade Theory (MSc)
Economics of Organisational Management (MSc)
Economics of Organisational Management (undergraduate)
Game Theory and Applications (MSc)
Theory of Industrial Organisation (MSc)
Teaching Assistant, Graduate Microeconomics, Yale University
Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics, Yale University
Teaching Assistant, Introductory Microeconomics, Yale University
Invited Seminar Presentations:
Bocconi University, Brunel University, CEPR, CERGE-EI, Cattolica University (Milan), City University of London, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Harvard Business School, Insead, MIT Sloan School of Management, Oxford University, SET Seminars in Economic Theory, THEMA Université Cergy-Pontoise, Toulouse School of Economics, University of Bonn, University of British Columbia, University of Cergy-Pontoise, University of East Anglia, University of Essex, University of Leicester, University of Manchester, University of Mannheim, University of Naples, University of Oslo, University of Rochester, University of Southampton, University of Sussex, University of Warwick, University of Western Ontario, W.P. Carey School of Business, Yale University.
Conference Presentations:
NABE Webinar on Privacy, April 2022
UEA Theory Workshop (Norwich, UK) June 2019
Manchester Economic Theory Workshop (Manchester, UK) June 2018
UECE Lisbon Meetings on Game Theory and Applications (Lisbon, Portugal) November 2018
Mathematics of Subjective Probability (Milan, Italy) September 2018
Manchester Economic Theory Workshop (Manchester, UK) June 2018
Workshop on Advances in Industrial Organization (Bergamo, Italy) October 2017
Ninth bi-annual Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economy and Delivery Services (Toulouse, France) March 2016
UECE Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications (Lisbon, Portugal) November 2015 and November 2018
Petralia Sottana Workshop in Economics (Petralia Sottana, Italy) July 2011
Eleventh SAET Conference (Faro, Portugal) June 2011
Economics and Music conference (Essex, U.K.) May 2011
Workshop on Acquisition, Use and Transmission of Private Information in Financial Markets, (EUI, Florence) June 2010
Eighth SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics (Kos, Greece), June 2007
Eighth CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organization (Tarragona, Spain), May 2007
Economics and Music (Essex, UK), May 2007
14th WZB-CEPR Conference on Markets and Politics (Berlin, Germany), October 2006
EARIE 2006 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), August 2006
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (2006)
Workshop on Coordination Games, Cowles Foundation (New Haven, U.S.A.), September 2005
Econometric Society World Congress, (London, U.K.), August 2005
Third Conference on the Economics of the Software and Internet Industries (Toulouse, France), January 2005
Winter Meeting European Union “Polarization and Conflict” Project (Barcelona, Spain), December 2004
WISE, 1st Workshop for Italian Ph.D. Students in Economics, (Salerno, Italy), May 27-28, 2004
Conference on the Economics of Two-Sided Markets, CEPR and IDEI (Toulouse, France), January 23-24, 2004 (as discussant)
31st Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy, George Mason University School of Law, (Arlington, VA), September 19-21, 2003
Referee:
Econometrica, American Economic Review, American Economic Journal - Microeconomics, Review of Economic Studies, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of the European Economic Association, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Canadian Journal of Economics, Telecommunications Policy, Review of Network Economics, The Manchester School, Economic Journal.