Teaching & Talks

Teaching Positions

Assistant Professor: Laboratory for the Analysis of Markets, Bachelor in Business Administration and Law,

University of Trento, 2022-ongoing

Assistant Professor: Introduction to Economics, Master in Law,

University of Trento, 2024-ongoing

Assistant Professor: Introduction to Economics, Bachelor in Business Management,

University of Trento, 2024-ongoing

Lecturer: Statistics and Econometrics for the analysis of sustainable growth and development, previous name of the course: The Environmental, Social and Economic Dimensions of Human Development, PhD students 

Università Statale di Milano, 2020-ongoing

Adjunct Professor: International Cooperation and Development Policies, Graduate students

University of Pavia, 2015-2019

Lecturer: Datalab - Introduction to STATA and to Data Analysis, Graduate students

University of Pavia, 2009-2015

Lecturer: Microeconomics, Undergraduate - working students

University of Pavia, 2011-2012

Lectures (selected)

The Economics of Informal Institutions

Indira Ghandi Institute for Development Research, Mumbai, India, 2026

Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tales and Culture Have Long-Term Effects

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, 2026

Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India 2026

National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad, India 2026

Did they live happily ever after? Moral Foundation Narratives in Folklore

Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg University, Freiburg, 2025

Heretical Thoughts? Does the Context Alter the Nature of Goods

Seminar Series on Law and Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, 2025

Culture and Institutions: Measurement Challenges and Systemic Interdependencies

Workshop Lecturer, Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy, Corsica, 2024

Eliciting Values and Social Norms from Folktales

Department of Economics, New York University, 2024

The Common Ground for Formal and Informal Institutions? Shared Moral Narrative and the Moral Systems they Create

Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies, Birkbeck Business School, 2024

Institutional Interconnections – Using System Networks to Study Complex Interdependencies

Department of Economics, University of Parma

Eliciting values, social norms and moral foundations from folklore

Hamburg Lecture Series, Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, 2023

Folklore, Moral Foundations and their Economic Consequences

Dauphine Fondation, Paris, 2023

Institutional Interdependencies within Cultural Ecosystems: Meso-relations in the Five Brazils

Fundação Getulho Vargas, Escola de Economia de São Paulo, online, 2021

Institutional Pathologies: what can we learn from severely malfunctioning economic and political organizations, institutions and networks?

Opening Panellist, Witten, 2018

Equality of Opportunities in Brazil: Recent Trends and Innovations

Institute for International Politics, ISPI Milan, 2015

Pillars of Social Sustainability

EXPO School, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 2015

The Human Dimension in Development

Master in Cooperation and Development, Institute for Advanced Study, IUSS Pavia, 2014-2015

Inequality, Human Development and the Capability Approach

Master in Human Rights and Conflict Management, Sant'Anna Institute for Advanced Study, 2012

Key-note Lectures

"Creating Economic Space for Social Innovation", Social Innovation: Research and Policy of the Future. Towards a Comprehensive Innovation Policy, Brussels, 2017

"What about the Social in Social Innovation?" Supporting Social Innovation with the European Social Fund, Brussels, 2015

"Can the Context Mediate Macro Social Policies?", Brazilian Ministry of Social Development, Division of Evaluation and Information Management (SAGI), Brasilia, 2014