Research

Working papers

Altruism and Reciprocity in the Online One-Shot Public Goods Game (with E. Bilancini and T. Celadin)
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)
What Noise Matters? Experimental Evidence for Stochastic Deviations in Social Norms (with E. Bilancini and H. Nax)
Pairwise Interact-and-Imitate Dynamics (with E. Bilancini and N. Campigotto)
Does Focality Depend on the Mode of Cognition? Experimental Evidence on Pure Coordination Games (with E. Bilancini and L. Luini)
When Market Unravelling Fails and Mandatory Disclosure Backfires: Persuasion Games with Labelling and Costly Information Acquisition (with E. Bilancini)

Publications

When Today's Rewards Are Tomorrow's Endowments: The Effects of Inequality on Social Competition (with E. Bilancini), accepted at European Economic Review
Evolution and Rawlsian Social Choice in Matching (with E. Bilancini and J. Newton), accepted at Games and Economic Behavior
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