Married
to Anna with two children, Lucia and Cesare
CURRENT
POSITION
Professor
of Public Finance, Università “Cà
Foscari”, Venice, Italy,
since November2008
EDUCATION
University
of York,
UK:
Ph.D in Economics, July 1992
Università
di Pavia,
Italy:
Dottorato in economia, September 1993
Università
di Pavia,
Italy:
Laurea in Economia e commercio, June 1985. Grade: 110/110 cum laude
PREVIOUS
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor
of Public Finance, Università dell’Insubria,
Varese, Italy, October 2000 – October 2008, and Head of the
Department of Economics, Università dell’Insubria,
November 2006 – October 2008.
Associate
Professor of Economics, Università di Napoli, Italy,
October 1998-October 2000
Assistant
Professor of Public Finance, Università di Pavia, Italy,
January 1994-October 1998
BritishAcademy
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of York, UK,
October 1992 -December 1993
Research
Officer, Institute
of Economics
and Statistics, University ofOxford, UK,
July 1992-December 1992
Research
Fellow, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of York,
UK,
October 1988-September 1991.
FIELDS
OF INTEREST
Economics
and psychology
Experimentaleconomics
Public
finance
TEACHING
Undergraduates:
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics, History of Economic
Thought, Decision Theory, Experimental Economics, Economics and
Psychology, Economics and Ethics
Graduate:
Microeconomics, Public Economics, Economics of Uncertainty,
Experimental Economics, Economics and Psychology, Economics and Ethics
GRANTS
AND AWARDS
COFIN
Project, “Behavioral economics in the analysis of tax
evasion”, Italian Ministry of Education, Coordinator of the
project, 2007
COFIN
Project, “Theoretical and experimental research on
behavioural decision models and on their implications for markets,
contracts, ethics”, Italian Ministry of Education, National
scientific coordinator, 2005
Cariplo
contributions to Università dell’Insubria for
project in “Experimental economics”, Coordinator of
the project, 2001.
COFIN
Project “The equality-efficiency
trade-off for labor taxation in Europe”,
Italian Ministry of Education, Local scientific coordinator, 2003.
Cariplo
contributions to Università dell’Insubria for
setting a “Laboratory in experimental economics”,
Coordinator of the project, 2001.
COFIN
Project “Public Sector Outlook in
Italy
after Adjustment for the Emu: Trends and Reforms”, Italian
Ministry of Education, Local scientific coordinator, 1999.
COFIN
Project “Experiments in Economics”,
Italian Ministry of Education, Local scientific coordinator, 1997.
FAR
Projects in monitoring Italian public finances, Università
dell’Insubria, various years since 2000.
Jean
Monnet Fellowship, European University Institute, 1997
BritishAcademy
Postdoctoral Fellowship, The BritishAcademy,
London,
1993
Ellis
Hunter teaching fellowship, University of York, UK,
1987 and 1988.
Research
Fellowship, Ente Luigi Einaudi, Rome, 1987.
G.
Mortara fellowship, Bank of Italy 1986.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCES AND AFFILIATIONS
Member
of Editorial board of Mind & Society,
2005 – today
Affiliate
to Econpubblica, Centre for Research on
the Public Sector, Università Bocconi, Milan,
2007 -
Member
of the Council of the “Società Italiana di
Economia Pubblica” (SIEP), 2000-2003
Member
of “Nucleo Valutazione Spesa Pensionistica”,
Italian Ministry of Welfare, April 2002-July 2006.
Member
of Special Commission for the Evaluation of Italian Pension Reforms
(Lex 335/95), Italian Ministry of Welfare, 2001.
Consultant
on models of tax forecasts, FB Comunicazione
srl, April 2003.
Advisor
in research assessment exercises (proposals and output), for: Italian
Ministry of Education, various programs (COFIN, FIRB, CIVR) and years;
German-Italian University Centre, “Programma
Vigoni”; French-Italian University Centre,
“Programma Vinci”.
Referee
for the following journals: American Economic Review, Giornale degli
Economisti, Economic Journal, European Journal of Political Economy,
European Economic Review, Economica, Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic
Psychology, Journal of Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty,
Politica Economica, Rivista di Scienza delle Finanze e Diritto
Finanziario, Review of Income and Wealth, Scandinavian Journal of
Economics, Southern Economic Journal, International Tax and Public
Finance, Review of International Economics and Finance.
External
examiner in the Following Doctorate Programs (last two years): Bicocca,
Milan (September
2007), University
of Bari
(June 2007); University
of Siena
(June 2006), University of Turin
(March 2006),
ACADEMIC
COLLABORATIONS AND VISITING
Instructor
and member of board of the Doctorate program in “Finanza
Pubblica”, Università
di Pavia, period 1994-2006. Instructor for various years in graduate
courses in
microeconomics and public economics.
Doctorate
program in “Economia e Management”, Scuola
Superiore di Sant’Anna, Pisa, 2002-2005.Instructor in graduate
courses in microeconomics
and economics of bounded rationality
Università
Bocconi, period 1997-2004. Instructor for course in Experimental
economics.
Università
Liuc, Castellanza (VA), period 1907-2004. Instructor in undergraduate
courses
in “Public Economics”. University
of Mannheim,
visiting, June 1998 and July 2004.
Jean-Monnet
Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy,
September 1996-September 1997 University
of California,
San
Diego (UCSD), July-September 2000.
Summer School,
Instructor for course in Decision Theory.
SEMINARS
AND CONFERENCES (last 5 years)
2008Conferences:
Invited lecture, workshop on “Perspectives on the theory of
we-thinking”
Università di Trento (September); Presentations at
“29th Annual
Conference - Society for Judgment and
Decision Making”, Chicago (November), at workshop on
“Towards a survey on equality of opportunity
and mobility” University of Gent (April); at the Royal
Economic Society, Annual
Conference, Warwick (March). Seminar at Università di
Catania (June).
2007Conferences:
presentations at CEPR Conference on The Formation of
Human Capital and Knowledge, Bergen (May); invited discussion at
Università
Cattolica of Milan, conference on “An Opprotuinity for
Equality of Opportunity”
(December).Seminars
at Università
LUISS, Roma (February), Università Cattolica of Milan
(July), Universidad de Navarra,
Pamplona (December) Public
conference at ACLI Varese, on “Lo stato della finanza
pubblica in Italia” (March)
and at Rotary Club Varese, on “Economia e
felicità” (March).
2006Conferencese:
presentations at Workshop on Distributive Issues
and Questionnaire Studies, Barcelona (December) and at Annual
Conference of Società
Italiana di Economia Pubblica, Pavia (September). Seminars at
Università
Statale of Milan (May) and at Fondazione Rosselli, Torin (May). Public
conference
at “Libertà e Giustizia”, on
“La Finanziaria 2007”, Pavia
(December).
2005Conferences: presentations
at Economic Science Association
European Meeting, Alessandria (September),at ECINEQ First International Meeting , Palma de Mallorca
(July), at Workshop
Cofin on “Conseguenze economiche delle valutazioni personali
di ambiguità ed
equità”, Venice (January). Seminar at Freie
Universität, Berlin (December). Public
conference at Festival “Varesenews”, on
“Felicità e lavoro”, Varese (September).
2004Conferences:
presentations at Workshop on “Laboratory Methods in
Economics”, Siena (December), at Economic Science Association
International
Meeting, Amsterdam (June). Seminars at SFB504, Universität
Mannheim (July) and Università
Cattolica of Milan
(January).
Publications
Refereed
Journals
“Do
fiscal variables affect fiscal
expectations? Experiments with real world and lab data”, with
Oliver Kirchkamp and
Paolo Paruolo,
Journal of
Economic Behavior &
Organization,
in press.
“Measurement by
subjective estimation: testing for separable representations”, with Christine Choirat and Raffaello Seri, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 2008, vol. 52, pp. 184-201.
“Redistributive
taxation in democracies: evidence on people satisfaction”, European Journal of Political Economy, 2006,
vol. 22, pp. 809-837.
“Corporate
financing decisions and non-debt tax shields: evidence from Italian
experiences
in the 1990s”, with Anna Marenzi and Laura Pagani, International Tax and Public Finance,
2005, vol. 12, pp. 741-773.
“Tax
evasion, tax rates, and reference dependence”, with Alberto
Zanardi, FinanzArchiv, 2004, vol.
60, pp.
422-445.
“An
experimental analysis of social mobility comparisons”, with
Valentino
Dardanoni, Research on Economic Inequality,
2004, vol. 11, pp. 55-84.
“Evasione
fiscale e reddito di riferimento: aspetti teorici ed evidenza
empirica”, with
Alberto Zanardi, Politica Economica,
2004, vol. 20, pp. 145-175.
“How
should income be divided? Questionnaire evidence from the theory of
‘impartial
preferences’”, Journal of
Economics,
vol. 9, 2002, pp. 163-196.
“Why
do monetary policies matter? An experimental study of saving and
inflation in
an overlapping generations model”, with Oliver Kirchkamp, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2000,
vol. 46, pp. 315-343.
“Tax
evasion and orders of risk aversion”,Journal of Public Economics,
1998, vol.
67, pp. 123-134.
“The
Variable Frame Theory of focal points: an experimental
study”, with Michael
Bacharach, Games and Economic Behavior,
1997, vol. 19, pp. 1-45.
“Costo
del capitale ed incentivi all'industrializzazione nel Mezzogiorno. Una
stima
per il periodo 1974-1991", with Anna Marenzi, Nord
e Sud, 1996, vol. 43. pp. 67-99.
“Free-riding
and the psychology of choice”, Public
Finance/Finances Publiques, 1996, vol. 51, pp. 490-506.
“Evasione,
pressione fiscale e progressività delle imposte”, Rivista di Diritto Finanziario e Scienza delle
Finanze, 1995, vol.
54, pp. 538-553.
“Nonlinear
preferences and two-stages lotteries: theories and evidence”,
Economic Journal, 1994, vol. 104,
pp.
54-70.
“La
nozione di capacità contributiva: una prima indagine
conoscitiva fra i
cittadini romani”, with Mario Leccisotti, Rivista
di Diritto Finanziario e Scienza delle Finanze, 1994, vol.
53, pp. 337-374.
“Different
frames for the independence axiom: an experimental investigation in
individual
decision making under risk”, Journal
of
Risk and Uncertainty, 1992, vol. 5, pp. 159-174.
“Sul
contenuto normativo dei modelli alternativi all'utilità
attesa”, Rivista Internazionale di
Scienze Economiche
e Commerciali, 1992, vol. 49, pp. 737-751.
“Violations
of the reduction principle in an Ellsberg-type problem”, with
Graham Loomes, Theory and Decision,
1992, vol. 32, pp.
77-100.
“Individual
decision making under risk and uncertainty: a perspective in the
literature”, Giornale degli
Economisti ed Annali di
Economia, 1991, vol. 50, pp. 125-150.
Other
Publications
“J.E.
Roemer, W. Lee, and K. Van Der Straeten: Racism,
Xenophobia, and Distribution. Multi-issue Politics in Advanced
Democracies”
Book review, in Journal of Economics,
2008, vol. 94, pp. 101-104.
“I
condoni nel sistema tributario
Italiano”, in C. Guerra e A. Zanardi (eds.), La
Finanza Pubblica Italiana. Rapporto 2006, pp. 377-405.
Bologna,
Il Mulino, 2006.
“Estimation
of Separable Representations in Psychophysical Experiments”, with Cristine Choirat and Raffaello
Seri, in
B.G. Bara, L.
Barsalou and M. Bucciarelli (eds.) Proceedings of the XXVII Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Science Society,
pp. 244-249, Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 2005.
“Measuring
and evaluating social mobility: evidence on students’
questionnaire”, with
Valentino Dardanoni, in S. Traub and U. Schmidt (eds.), Advances
in Public Economics: Utility, Choice and Welfare - A
Festschrift in Honor of Christian Seidl, pp. 173-195, Kluwer,
Dordrecht,
2005.
“L’economia
degli ‘esperimenti’”,
in R. Viale (ed.), Le Nuove Economie,
pp. 95-118, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano, 2005.
“Rigore fiscale e neo-liberismo”,
in L. Bernardi
(ed.), La Finanza Pubblica Italiana. Rapporto
2000,
pp. 99-124, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000.
“Eurosclerosi e disciplina
fiscale: il dibattito”, in L.
Bernardi
(ed.), La Finanza Pubblica Italiana.
Rapporto 1999, pp. 97-120. Bologna, Il
Mulino, 1999. “Un modello di scelte in
condizioni di incertezza alternativo all'utilità attesa:
l'utilità dipendente
dal Regret con probabilità dipendenti dal rango”,
in A. Vercelli (ed.), Incertezza,
razionalità e decisioni
economiche, pp. 103-119. Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998.
“Randomisation,
mixed strategies and the reduction axiom”, in L. Luini (ed.),
Uncertain decisions. Bridging theory and
experiments,
pp.129-146. Dordrecht,
Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1998.
“Il deficit pubblico al 3%. Linee
interpretative del processo di risanamento”, with Anna
Marenzi, in L. Bernardi
(ed.), La Finanza Pubblica Italiana. Rapporto
1998, pp. 85-108. Bologna,
Il Mulino, 1998.
“Gli effetti redistributivi
dell'evasione fiscale in Italia”, with Anna Marenzi, in Ricerche quantitative per la politica economica,
pp. 1-38. Roma,
Banca d'Italia, 1999.
“Distorsioni del sistema
tributario italiano e proposte di riforma”, in L. Bernardi (ed.), La
Finanza Pubblica Italiana. Rapporto 1997, pp. 87-109.
Bologna, Il Mulino,
1997.
“Il finanziamento volontario della
spesa pubblica: un test sperimentale di due approcci
alternativi”,in
D. da Empoli and G. Muraro (ed.), Tendenze e
criteri del nuovo stato sociale,
pp. 153-173, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1997.
“L'evasione fiscale in Italia: evidenze
empiriche”, with Luigi Bernardi, Quaderni del Dipartimento di
economia pubblica
e territoriale, Università di Pavia, N. 6/1996. (Published
as supplement on il Fisco, n. 38,
21 October 1996).
“Decisioni di evasione ed analisi
del rischio”, in A. Fossati and S. Giannini (eds), I Nuovi Sistemi Tributari, pp. 83-98.
Milano, Franco Angeli, 1996.
“Il prelievo fiscale in Italia ed
il confronto con l'Europa”, in L.
Bernardi
(ed.), La Finanza Pubblica Italiana.
Rapporto 1996,pp. 81-102.
Bologna, Il Mulino, 1996.
“Evasione
fiscale in Italia ed
evoluzione recente degli strumenti di contrasto”, in L. Bernardi (ed.), La
Finanza Pubblica Italiana. Rapporto 1995, pp. 111-135.
Bologna, Il Mulino.
1995.
“Economia sperimentale ed analisi
economica del settore pubblico”, in L. Bernardi
(ed.), Formazione e valutazione delle
politiche di Finanza Pubblica,pp.
23-50. Bologna, Il Mulino. 1992.
“L'effetto del reference e la
teoria del free-rider: l'analisi diagrammatici”, with Anna
Marenzi, in A.
Chiancone and F. Osculati (editors), Il
Merito della Spesa, pp. 129-148. Milano, Franco Angeli. 1993.
Edited
books
“Diritti,
mercato, regole.
Economia pubblica ed analisi economica del diritto”, M.
Bernasconi and M.
Marrelli (editors), Franco Angeli, Milano. 2004. Working papers
“Redistribution
or education? The political economy
of the social race”, with Paola
Profeta,
CESifo working paper n. 1934, 2007. (Paper).
“Coordination
in networks formation: experimental evidence on learning and
salience”, with
Matteo Galizzi. Working paper SIEP, n. 412/2005. (Paper).
“Two are
better than one.
Individuals' contribution to ‘unpacked’ public
goods”, with Luca Corazzini,
Sebastain Kube, Michel Andrè Marechal. ISLA working paper n.
30, 2007. (Paper).
