My current research directions investigate:
PREFERENCE: How do preferences, social norms (i.e. beliefs), choice and relational sets determine what choices people make and how they make those choices? And how are those elements formed?
INTERACTION: Is there a specific "decision rules," "decision protocols," or "modes of interactions" they use that is dependent on social reference group? Does the reference group have an impact on the effort elicitation?
INFORMATIONAL SET: What information do individuals or groups have (use) when making decisions under uncertainty? What assumptions do they make? And what is the role of social norms in identifying individual’s informational set?
EVOLUTION of INSTITUTIONS: how does institutions evolve? how formal and informal institutions interact determining the level and capacity of cooperation of one society and its functioning?
What components of individuals' and groups' decision processes can we sensibly measure in surveys? From whom? And in what formats?
Paper submitted or completed
Public Support for Universal Road Pricing (with Antonioni, Ciccone, Garnache, Ghivarello, Halse) [link] (under review.)
Data quality in the spotlight: a Hybrid-LCA approach to evaluating reported corporate carbon footprints (with Jaime Oliver Huidobro, Ignacio Tamarít) [link]
.Can Emotional Intelligence promote Individual Wellbeing and protect from perceptions' traps? (with Antonino Callea, Dalila De Rosa, Giovanni Ferri, Francesca Lipari and Marco Costanzi) [link]
"Global information and consensus formation in a directed social network: theory and simulation "(with Brais Alvarez-Pereira, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Alireza Goudarzi).
Work in Progress:
"How Pluralistic Ignorance and Social Norms Shape Public Support for Road Pricing" with Antonioni, Ciccone, Garnache, Ghivarello, Halse.
"ESG's performance and the Queen Bee's effect." with Jaime Oliver Huidobro, Ignacio Tamarít, and Izaskun Zuazu.
"From the treadmill to my own pace: On the motivations as an explanation to social mobility" (with Sebastiano Bavetta, Paolo Lidonni, and Paola Samà).
"Spatio-temporal analysis of maritime shipping and its impact on international trade" (with Claire Lagesse, Leto Peel, Cesar Ducret). (Theory and Simulation)
"A Bayesian Model for Norms Propagation and their Reinforcement "(with Brais Alvarez-Pereira, Leonhard Horstmeyer, and Alireza Goudarzi). (Theory and Simulation)