• I am Rita Levi-Montalcini Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna. My chair has been established thanks to a 3.4 million Euros 2015 Rita Levi-Montalcini grant from MIUR. 

• I am a PI of the Origins Project.

• I am the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Elements in Law, Economics and Politics.

• My research evaluates the determinants and impact of: 1. market design and, notably, the extent of regulation, the size and nature of the firm, and the extent of nonmarket activities; 2. legal traditions, which are the legal institutions aggregating both the technology and the citizens' preferences over punishment; 3. property rights; 4. a culture of cooperation, which is the implicit reward from cooperating in any economic activity; 5. inclusive political institutions; and 6. extractive policies. Statistics on the impact of this research are available from Google Scholar, SSRN and ResearchGate. 

• My theory of "endogenous institutions" is based on the unifying ideas that these arrangements originate from the mix of market failures and adverse economic shocks, help tackle the ex post misallocation of economic value and the suboptimal organization of innovation and might be manipulated by powerful special interests.

• You can download my CV here.