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About me

Welcome!

I hold a post-doc position in experimental economics at the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena, Germany, within the Strategic Interaction Group (ESI), led by Werner Güth. Formerly I worked at the Department of Economics (DPTEA) at LUISS in Rome, working with Prof. John D. Hey and Prof. Daniela Di Cagno.

I received my PhD in Economics from the  Department of Economics (DEAS) of the University of Milano – Statale under the supervision of John D. Hey and Antonio Filippin.

While in Jena I do not teach, in the past I acted as teaching assistant of Advanced Microeconomics (with Prof. Franco Donzelli) at the Economics and Political Sciences (EPS) program at the University of Milan, of Games and Strategy (with Prof. Marco Scarsini) and of Microeconomics for Finance (with. Prof. Daniela Di Cagno) at LUISS. You can have a look at the teaching material here (slides) and here (graphics). In the evening and when time allows, I am also editor for the Italian public economics journal Economia Pubblica (also here on IDEAS).

My research interests lie (substantively) in the analysis of open content in the virtual commons, notably open source software, but also copyleft, creative commons; more generally, on the role of Intellectual Property Rights in fostering (or hampering) innovative activities. Moreover, I am interested (methodologically) in Experimental Economics and  Agent Based Computational Economics. You can see my publications here (on this site), here (on IDEAS), or here (on SSRN).

I graduated in International Political Sciences in Torino. Before and during my PhD I used to work in the field of Transition Economics for CIRPET and in European Economics, Liberalisation and Institutions for URGE. You can find a list of my recent and not-so-recent works in the Research page.

When I’m not busy doing research, or hacking my linux-powered PC, I love going around with my camera and take some pictures, or else hiking (as in here) or climbing (as in here).

I was born in Ciriè, a very lively small city lying just below the first ramparts of the Western Alps, near Torino, and if I had to name a place where my roots lie, I would choose somewhere near Corio, and, more generally, the Valli di Lanzo. I feel at home when I can see the bright light that shines behind the mountains’ black silhouette in summer sunsets.  I am a big fan of urban cycling and criticalmass (Torino, Milano, Roma, York).