Francesca Pancotto

I am an economist working at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

My orcid account : 0000-0002-4670-0673

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Research Interests

• Experimental Economics

• Behavioral Economics

• Cooperation and Social Dilemmas

• Trust and Social Capital

• Corruption and Bribery

• Prosocial Behavior and Empathy

• Behavioral Finance

• Computational Social Science

Selected Publications

Amoral Familism, Social Capital, or Trust? The Behavioural Foundations of the Italian North–South Divide
The Economic Journal (2016)

Community Social Capital and Status: The Social Dilemma of Food Waste
Ecological Economics (2021)

Reputation and Punishment Sustain Cooperation in the Optional Public Goods Game
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2021)

Understanding Post-Disaster Prosociality
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2024)