I am Marco Persichina, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania.
My main research fields are Behavioural and Experimental Economics and Public Economics.
My research interests include public and common goods, intertemporal preferences, social preferences and social norms, environmental preferences elicitation, and AI attitudes and adoption.
I focus my research on the use of behavioural approaches to address questions related to sustainability preferences and social preferences in contexts involving public interests and the public sector. More broadly, I draw on insights from behavioural and cognitive sciences to study individual behaviour, public actors, and the design of policies and instruments aimed at promoting environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
My methodological approach combines theoretical and experimental methods, including lab, field, and choice experiments, with empirical techniques and elicitation methods to investigate behaviour relevant to public economics.
I serve as a Board Member of SABE, the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, where I contribute to the development of international research networks and to the dissemination and advancement of behavioral economics.
I regularly present my findings at international conferences and seminars. I am committed to building an interdisciplinary network of passionate researchers, scholars and policymakers to push the boundaries of economic and social dialogue on topics such as sustainability, social preferences, public policy.
Contact me to:
marco.persichina@unict.it
Institutional webpage:
https://www.dei.unict.it/docenti/marco.persichina?eng
Address: Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Corso Italia 55, 95129, Catania, Italy