Research
Working papers
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)
Publications
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