2021 – Presente: Abilitazione Nazionale Prof. Ordinario Secs P02 - Area 13/02
2020 – 2023: Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
2014 – 2020: Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Francesca Pancotto
Department of Languages and Cultures
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Email: f.pancotto(At)unimore.it
2011 – 2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
2010 – 2011: Post-doctoral Scholar - ERC Starting Grant Strangers, Department of Economics, University of Bologna (Supervisor: Prof. Marco Casari)
2009 – 2010: Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Finance, HEC Liège, Belgium
2008 – 2009: Post-doctoral Scholar, Centro Europa Ricerche, Roma
2001 – 2002: Intern, International Markets Research Division, Banca Intesa, Milano
2000: Summer Intern, United Nations, ECLAC, Chile
Giugno 2008: PhD, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
Aprile 2001: Laurea (Summa Cum Laude) in Economics, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy
2021 (Summer): Visiting Professor, Norrköping University, Sweden
2019 (Summer): Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2010: Visiting Student, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
2006: Visiting Student, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
1999: Full-Time Exchange Student Scholarship, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 – 2010: ULg, Liège, FNRS Institutional Grant for Post-Doctorate Research in Finance
2005 – 2006: Research Grant in Economics, SECS P/02, Istituto di Economia, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
2002 – 2005: Full-Time Doctoral Scholarship, Istituto di Economia, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
2001 – 2002: Teaching Grant in Economics, SECS P/01, Department of Economics, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
2001 – 2002: Research Assistant, European Forecasting Network, Department of Economics, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
Prizes:
2019: Winner of D4R Challenge, Istanbul (with M. Mamei and S. Tumen) – Category: Education
2015: Winner of Big Data Challenge, Roma (with M. Mamei) – Project: Interaction Diversity to measure social capital
Grants:
2024 – 2026: FAR Fondo Ateneo Ricerca Interdipartimentale (€80.000)
2019 – 2020: FAR Fondo Ateneo Ricerca Interdipartimentale (€80.000)
2011: EIEF Young Researchers Grant – Project: Higher Order Beliefs and Volatility with D. Raggi and G. Pignataro (€10.000)
2010: ULg, FNRS Post-doctoral Research Grant – Project: Experimental Finance in Exchange Rates Markets (€10.000)
2010: Finalist at Unicredit and Universities Young Researchers Grant
In corso: Energie Sisma Emilia (Participant) – Lab in the Field Experiment (€10.000)
Pignataro, G., Raggi, D., & Pancotto, F. (2023). "On the role of fundamentals, private signals, and beauty contests to predict exchange rates." International Journal of Forecasting, 40(2).
Pancotto, F., Addessi, G., & Auteri, N. (2024). “Soccer Bubble: Is there a speculative bubble in the price of international soccer players?”. Journal of Sports Economics, 10.1177/1527002524123963.
Pancotto, F., Giardini, F., & Righi, S. (2024). "Understanding post disaster prosociality: Comparing post-earthquake cooperation and fairness in two Italian regions." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 104165.
Pancotto, F., Righi, S., & Takács, K. (2023). "Voluntary play increases cooperation in the presence of punishment: A lab in the field experiment." Theory and Decision, 95(3), 405-428.
Giardini, F., Hadjidimitriou, N.S., Mamei, M. et al. Using mobile phone data to map evacuation and displacement: a case study of the central Italy earthquake. Sci Rep 13, 22228 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48130-4
Ferretti, R., Giacomini, E., & Pancotto, F. (2022). "Distribution Channels and Financial Advertising In The Italian Asset Management Market." Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions, 10(02), 2250006.
Podder, S., Righi, S., & Pancotto, F. (2021). "Reputation and punishment sustain cooperation in the optional public goods game." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1838), 20200293.
Pancotto, F., & Righi, S. (2021). "Reflectivity relates differently to prosociality in naïve and strategic subjects." Scientific Reports (Nature), 11(1).
Piras, S., Pancotto, F., Righi, S., Vittuari, M., & Setti, M. (2021). "Community Social Capital and Status: The Social Dilemma of Food Waste." Ecological Economics, 183.
Mamei, M., Pancotto, F., De Nadai, M., Lepri, B., Vescovi, M., Zambonelli, F., & Pentland, A. (2018). "Is social capital associated with synchronization in human communication? An analysis of Italian call records and measures of civic engagement." EPJ Data Science, 7(1), 25.
Ferretti, R., Pancotto, F., & Rubaltelli, E. (2017). "Persuasion in Financial advertising: Behavioral or Rational?" Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 71, 26-31.
Bigoni, M., Bortolotti, S., Casari, M., Gambetta, D., & Pancotto, F. (2016). "Amoral Familism, Social Capital or Trust? The Behavioral Foundations of the Italian North-South Divide." The Economic Journal, 126(594), 1318–1341.
Arruñada, B., Casari, M., & Pancotto, F. (2015). "Pro-sociality and Strategic Reasoning in Economic Decisions." Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00140.
Bortolotti, S., Casari, M., & Pancotto, F. (2015). "Norms of punishment: Experiments con students and the general population." Economic Inquiry, 53(2), 1207–1223.
Pancotto, F., Pericoli, F., & Pistagnesi, M. (2014). "Overreaction in Survey Exchange Rates Forecasts." Journal of Forecasting, 33(4), 243-258.
Pancotto, F., & Pericoli, F. (2014). "Till labor cost do us part. On the long run convergence of EMU countries." International Economics and Economic Policy, 11(3), 371-395.
Devetag, G., Pancotto, F., & Brenner, T. (2014). "The Minority Game Unpacked: Coordination and Competition in a Team-based Experiment." Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 24(4), 761-797.
Bottazzi, G., Devetag, G., & Pancotto, F. (2011). "Does Volatility Matter? Expectations of price return and variability in an asset pricing experiment." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 77(2), 124-146.
Anufriev, M., Bottazzi, G., & Pancotto, F. (2006). "Equilibria, Stability and Asymptotic Dominance in a Speculative Market with Heterogeneous Agents." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 30(9-10), 1787-1835.
Federico, F., Pancotto, F., & Righi, S. (2023). Preregistration for Corruption and Cooperation: how information levels and structure affect group corruption. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DVUBM
Federico, F., Pancotto, F., & Righi, S. (2023). Preregistration for a study on the relationship between fairness and intuitive behavior. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/K8C29
Pancotto, F. (2021). "Experimental Economics." Dictionary of Ecological Economics, pp. 219.
Giacomini, E., Ferretti, R., & Pancotto, F. (2020). "La pubblicità dei fondi comuni di investimento, un’analisi del mercato italiano." Bancaria, 5.
Mamei, M., Seyit Mumin Cilasun, Lippi, M., Tumen, S., & Pancotto, F. (2019). "Improve education opportunities for better integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey."
Cosma, S., Pancotto, F., & Vezzani, P. (2018). "Complaining in Consumer Credit: which relationship with credit risk." In: Contemporary Issues in Banking, Regulation, Governance, and Performance, Editors: García-Olalla, M., Clifton, J.
Pancotto, F., & Müller, A. (2009). "Coordination and Forecasting Performance in Exchange Rate Expectations: Evidence Across Time and Market Conditions." 22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference.
Anufriev, M., Bottazzi, G., & Pancotto, F. (2005). "Speculative Equilibria and Asymptotic Dominance in a Market with adaptive CRRA traders." Proceedings of SPIE, 5848.
2022 – 2026: Undergraduate Course – Economics of European Integration – Department of Languages and Cultures, Unimore
2022 – 2026: Undergraduate Course – International Economics (in English) – LACOM, Department of Languages and Cultures, Unimore
2022 – 2026: Undergraduate Course – Internationalization Strategies (in English) – LACOM, Department of Languages and Cultures, Unimore
2019 – 2021: Undergraduate Course – Growth Theory – Department of Communication and Economics, Unimore
2012 – 2019: Master Course – International Macro Economics – Department of Communication and Economics, Unimore
2012 – 2020: Undergraduate Course – Macroeconomics 101 – Department of Communication and Economics, Unimore
2012 – 2013: Master Course – Economics of Complexity – Department of Communication and Economics, Unimore
2011 – 2013: Master Course – Behavioral Economics – Department of Communication and Economics, Unimore
2011 – 2013: Undergraduate Course – Economics of Innovation – Department of Communication and Economics, Unimore
2011 – 2012: Graduate Module – Behavioral Finance – Department of Economics, University of Bologna
2011 – 2012: Graduate Module – Behavioral Finance – HEC Liège, Belgium
2008 – 2009: Master Module – International Macroeconomics – ESE, Lucca
2001 – 2002: Undergraduate Tutor – Macroeconomics 101 – Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
2025 – 2026: Coordinator of the Laurea Triennale in Lingue e Culture Europee
In corso: Delegato all'orientamento in uscita, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali, Unimore
Giugno 2026: Organizer of the Workshop: Social dilemmas and cooperation. Ospiti: Prof. Hauert (UBC, Vancouver), Károly Takács (Norrköping University), Marco Casari (Unibo), Giulia Andrighetto (CNR).
Ottobre 2026: Organizer of the Seminar Series: Social dilemmas and cooperation. Theory and experiments, insieme al Prof. Hauert (UBC, Vancouver)
Ottobre 2024: Organizer of the Seminar Series: Evolutionary Game theory and cooperation. Ospite: Prof. Hauert (UBC, Vancouver)
2024 – 2025: Delegato alla Disabilità, Dipartimento Studi Linguistici e Culturali
2022 – 2023: Componente commissione revisione corso LCE
2021 – 2023: Componente commissione contratti per la didattica ufficiale/integrativa area 13
2021 – 2023: Componente commissione attività della Biblioteca DSLC
2019 – 2023: Member of the direction board of CIES (Centro Interdipartimentale per l’Economia Sperimentale), con Univ. di Firenze, Pisa, Lucca, Unipartenope
2018: Organizer of REBEL Workshop: New dimension of social capital, Department of Agricultural Studies, in collaborazione con l'Università di Bologna
2015 – 2023: Founder and Director of REBEL: Reggio Emilia Behavioral and Experimental Laboratory (www.rebel.unimore.it)
2012: Participant in the project Energie Sisma Emilia (http://www.energie.unimore.it/)
2011 – 2014: Member of the Faculty Committee for the quality of Teaching, SCO and PICI, Department of Communication and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (concluso nel 2022)
2010: Co-organizer, 5th Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (EWEBE), Bertinoro, Italy
2009: Co-Founder of the Laboratory of Experimental Economics, BLESS, at the University of Bologna
2009: Promoter and Organizer of the Laboratory of Experimental Finance at HEC, Liège, Belgium
2026: SEET Conference Siviglia, Spain
2026: Asfee 2026, Lille France
2024: ESA European Conference, Helsinki
2021: Round the clock World ESA Conference Online
2019: North American Economic Science Association Conference, LA, CA, US; Leiden (NL), Lorentz center workshop: The language of Cooperation; ESA World Conference, Vancouver, Canada
2018: Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Odense, Denmark
2017: Nordic Conference on Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Göteborg, Sweden; Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium, Netherlands
2016: North American Economic Science Association Conference, Tucson (AZ), US; European Economic Science Association Conference, Bergen, Norway
2015: Infiniti Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013: WEHIA 2013 (Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous Interacting Agents), Reykjavik University, Iceland; IMEBE Conference, Madrid, Spain
2012: European Economic Science Association Conference, Colonia, Germany
2011: WEHIA 2011, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona
2010: European Financial Management Association Conference 2010, Aarhus, Denmark; 22nd Australasian Banking and Finance Conference, Sydney, Australia
2005: Econo-physics Colloquium, Australian National University, Canberra; WEHIA 2005, Colchester, UK
Maggio 2026: Escaping Corruption: Transparency and Exit Against Bribes, BIT-RG Seminar, Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Maggio 2021: Resilient communities, Department of Economics, Marco Biagi
Marzo 2020: Resilient communities, James Hutton University, Scotland (online)
Gennaio 2019: D4R challenge award presentation: Istanbul, Turkey
Aprile 2019: University of Macerata, Department of Economics, Seminar Series
Febbraio 2018: University of Florence, Department of Economics, Seminar Series
Febbraio 2017: 2nd Socrates Workshop, Pisa, Italy
Ottobre 2015: Tim Big Data Jam award ceremony #wcap Accelerator, Rome, Italy
Aprile 2013: Bomopav Economics Meetings, Venice
Giugno 2011: University of Modena, Department of Economics
Giugno 2011: University of Pisa, Department of Economics Seminar Series
Dicembre 2010: Ewebe workshop, Bertinoro
Ottobre 2009: Post-doc Presentation, HEC Management School of the University of Liège
Dicembre 2008: Job Market Seminar, HEC Management School University of Liège, Belgium; Job Market Meeting, London, England; Seminar Series Luiss Guido Carli, Rome
Aprile 2008: Job Market Seminar, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
Febbraio 2008: Job Market Seminar, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Settembre 2005: Half Day Finance Workshop, UTS, Sydney, Australia