I am a full-time senior researcher (Directeur de Recherche, DR) at INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment. I work in Grenoble, France, within the Research Unit GAEL – Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory. Mainly together with Bernard Ruffieux, Laurent Muller, and Sabrina Teyssier I focus on experimental methods and their application to consumer problems, mainly in the domain of food consumption.
Formerly I held for two years and a half 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. Before that, 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.
My main research interests are within the bounds of experimental economics, the economics of innovation, and the economics of food consumption. In my PhD thesis I carried out an experimental analysis of the production and sharing of open content in the virtual commons (open source software, copyleft, creative commons) focusing on the role of Intellectual Property Rights in fostering (or hampering) innovative activities. After the thesis, I compelted papers on Behavioral Industrial Organisation, Risk Elicitation, Public Good Games, Auctions, limited rationality and backward induction.
You can see my publications here (on IDEAS) or on this very site.
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 [sadly the site is no longer online] and in European Economics, Liberalisation and Institutions for URGE [same story — sites die, and research centres too].
Paolo Crosetto 