Biography

I obtained my Ph.D. at the University of Siena with a thesis on law enforcement and individual compliance with law, I also studied at CentER (Tilburg University, NL) where I was a visiting Ph.D. student supported by a Marie Curie Fellowship for the academic year 2004-2005. I obtained my BA (Laurea) in Economics and Social Sciences from the University Bocconi (Milan) in 2001. Before joining the EUI I was a research fellow at the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna and a visiting researcher at the Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (University of Amsterdam).
My main research interests are experimental/behavioural economics, and law and economics. In particular I am interested in understanding the (unexplored) effects of laws and formal institutions on individual motives of cooperative behaviour and the determinants of compliance with law, as well as in the analysis of law enforcement.