Curriculum

Employment

Professor of Economics, University of Bologna, 2022-

Coordinator of the PhD program in Economics, University of Bologna, 2022-

Visiting Professor, European University Institute, 2022-

Professor of Microeconomics, European University Institute, 2011-2021.

Head of the Economics Department, European University Institute, 2018-2020.

Visiting Professor of Economics, CERGE-EI, 2013-2015.

Associate Professor of Economics, MOVE and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2010-2011.

Affiliated Professor, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, 2010-2011.

Assistant Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology, 2004-2011.

Short-Term Visits: Princeton Politics September 2010, CERGE-EI December 2009.

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

Laurea (BA) in Economics, Summa cum Laude, Università Bocconi.

Honors, Grants and Awards

European Media and Information Fund “FacTS: Factual Transparent Statements”  2023-2025. 

PRIN “Fact-Checking Politicians” with F. Sobbrio, 2023-2025.  

PRIN “Voting, Lobbying and Disrupting: Political Economy via Economic Sociology” with D. Levine and S. Modica, 2019-2021.  

Team member Horizon 2020 “A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union” ADEMU, 2015-2018. 

Collaborator ERC Grant “Political Mind: Explaining Politicians’ and Voters’ Behavior” 2015. 

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic with Fabio Michelucci, 2013-2015.

Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, 2010. 

NSF grant SES 0617901 with A. Merlo, 2006-2010.

William Polk Carey Prize in Economics, University of Pennsylvania best dissertation, 2005. 

Weintraub Fellowship in Economics, University of Pennsylvania best theory paper, 2001.

Professional Activities

Associate Editor for European Economic Review, 2021-

CEPR Research Fellow, 2022-

RCEA Senior Fellow 2023-

Board member of ASSET.

Panelist for Economic Policy, 2016-1018.

Program Committee Member for ESEM, 2016.

Co-organizer Priorat Workshop in Theoretical Political Science, 2011- 2016.

Referee for American Economic Journal, American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Econometrica, Economic Inquiry, Economics Bullettin, Economic Journal, Economic Theory, European Political Science Review, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Law Economics and Organization, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Public Choice, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies, Southern Economic Journal, Theoretical Economics, ANVUR, ERC, Basque Foundation for Science, Israel Science Foundation, NSF, SSHRC Canada.