Research

Evolution of Conventions in Uncertain Environments (with E. Bilancini and J.F. Blazquiz-Pulido)

The Structure of Interaction and Modes of Reasoning Can Shape the Evolution of Conventions (with E. Bilancini and S. Zucchiatti)

Manipulating Response Times in the Cognitive Reflection Test (with E. Bilancini and T. Celadin),

Delaying and Motivating Decisions in the (Bully) Dictator Game (with E. Bilancini, P. Guarnieri and L. Spadoni)

Motivating Risky Choices Increases Risk Taking (with E. Bilancini and L. Spadoni)

The Effect of Time Pressure and Motivated Delay on Cooperation and Social Norms in the Online One-Shot Public Goods Game (with E. Bilancini, V. Capraro and T. Celadin)

Does Focality Depend on the Mode of Cognition? Experimental Evidence on Pure Coordination Games (with E. Bilancini and L. Luini) 

Game-based education promotes practices supporting sustainable water use (with E. Bilancini and R. Di Paolo), accepted at Ecological Economics, 2023

Assortativity in Cognition (with E. Bilancini and E. Vicario), Scientific Reports, 13 (3412), 2023

Prosocial behavior in emergencies: Evidence from blood donors recruitment and retention during the COVID-19 pandemic (with E. Bilancini, R. Di Paolo, D. Menicagli, V. Pizziol, E. Ricciardi and F. Serti), Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 314, 2022

Memory Retrieval and Harshness of Conflict in the Hawk-Dove Game (with E. Bilancini, S. Ille and E. Vicario), Economic Theory Bulletin, Vol. 10, 2022

Social value orientation and conditional cooperation in the online one-shot public goods game (with E. Bilancini and T. Celadin), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 200, 2022

The Evolution of Conventions in the Presence of Social Competition (with E. Bilancini), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 133, 2022

Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation (with A. Muscillo and P. Pin), Dynamic Games and Applications, 2022

Pairwise Interact-and-Imitate Dynamics (with E. Bilancini and N. Campigotto), Scientific Reports, 11 (n.13221), 2021

When Market Unravelling Fails and Mandatory Disclosure Backfires: Persuasion Games with Labelling and Costly Information Acquisition (with E. Bilancini), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2021

What Noise Matters?  Experimental Evidence for Stochastic Deviations in Social Norms (with E. Bilancini and H. Nax), Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics, Vol. 90, 2021

When Today's Rewards Are Tomorrow's Endowments: The Effects of Inequality on Social Competition (with E. Bilancini), European Economic Review, Vol. 129, 2020

Evolution and Rawlsian Social Choice in Matching (with E. Bilancini and J. Newton), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 123, 2020

The Effect of Norm-Based Messages on Reading and Understanding COVID-19 Pandemic Response Governmental Rules (with E. Bilancini, V. Capraro, T. Celadin and R. Di Paolo), Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, Vol. 4, COVID-19 Special Issue, 2020

"Do the Right Thing" for Whom? An Experiment on Ingroup Favouritism, Group Assortativity and Moral Suasion (with E. Bilancini, V. Capraro, T. Celadin and R. Di Paolo), Judgement and Decision Making, Vol. 15 (2), 2020

The Evolution of Conventions under Condition-Dependent Mistakes (with E. Bilancini), Economic Theory, Vol. 69 (2), 2020

A Social Heuristics Hypothesis for the Stag-Hunt: Fast- and Slow-Thinking Hunters in the Lab (with M. Belloc, E. Bilancini and S. D'Alessandro), Scientific Reports, 9 (2019-14833), 2019

Wage Inequality, Labor Income Taxes, and the Notion of Social Status (with E. Bilancini), Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 13 (2019-32), 2019

Assessing Actual Strategic Behavior to Construct a Measure of Strategic Ability (with E. Bilancini and A. Mattiassi), Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 9, 2019

Signaling to Analogical Reasoners Who Can Costly Acquire Information (with E. Bilancini), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 110, 2018

Social Coordination with Locally Observable Types (with E. Bilancini), Economic Theory, Vol. 65 (4), 2018

The Stochastic Stability of Decentralized Matching on a Graph (with P. Pin), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 108, 2018

Rational Attitude Change by Reference Cues when Information Elaboration Requires Effort (with E. Bilancini), Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 65, 2018

The Interplay of Cultural Aversion and Assortativity for the Emergence of Cooperation (with E. Bilancini and J. Wu), European Economic Review, Vol. 102, 2018

Signaling with Costly Acquisition of Signals (with E. Bilancini), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 145, 2018

Dynamic Adverse Selection and the Supply Size (with E. Bilancini), European Economic Review, Vol. 83, 2016

Strict Nash equilibria in large games with strict single crossing in types and actions (with E. Bilancini), Economic Theory Bulletin, Vol. 4, 2016

Instrumental Cardinal Concerns for Social Status in Two-Sided Matching with Non-Transferable Utility (with E. Bilancini), European Economic Review, Vol. 87, 2014

Disclosure of Information in Matching Markets with Non-Transferable Utility (with E. Bilancini), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 82, 2013

Redistribution and the Notion of Social Status, (with E. Bilancini), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 96, 2012

Stochastic Stability in Best Shot Network Games (with P. Pin), Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 75, 2012, [slides], [poster]

Preferences and Normal Goods: An Easy-to-Check Necessary and Sufficient Condition (with E. Bilancini), Economics Letters, Vol. 108 (1), 2010

Single-Valuedness of the Demand Correspondence and Strict Convexity of Preferences: An Equivalence Result (with E. Bilancini), Economics Letters, Vol. 108 (2), 2010

The Co-Evolution of Cooperation and Defection under Local Interaction and Endogenous Network Formation, (with E. Bilancini), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 70 (1-2), 2009

Global vs. Local Information in (Anti)-Coordination Problems with Imitators, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol. 8 (1) (Topics), 2008

Ordinal vs. Cardinal Status: Two Examples (with E. Bilancini), Economics Letters, Vol. 101 (1), 2008