Currently
Since 2024 - Professor of Economic Policy at LUMSA University
Since 2018 - Italian coordinator of the European Master of Law and Economics at LUMSA
Since 2014 - Associate Editor of the International Review of Economics
Other Academic titles and appointments
2019 - 2023 - Stable Professor of Political Economy of the Family Institution at the John Paul 2 Institute for Marriage and Family Studies
2021 - National habilitation as full professor in Public Economics (Scienza delle Finanze) (13A3)
2020 - National habilitation as full professor in Economic Policy (13A2)
2016 to date - Member of the academic board of the LUMSA Ph.D. program in Civil Economy
2014 to date - National Abilitation for Associate Professorship in Political Economy (13A1), Economic Policy (13A2) and Public Economics (13A3)
2015 - 2020 - Secretary of the Italian Society of Law & Economics
2008 - Ph.D. in Law and Economics, University of Siena
2005 - MSc. in Law and Economics, University of Siena
2003 - Master's Degree in Political Economy, University of Trento
2002 - Master's Degree in Economics, University of Maastricht
Previous jobs
2010 - 2014 - Assistant Professor of Law & Economics, Free University of Bozen
2006 - 2009 - Post-doc fellow (assegnista di ricerca), University of Milan - Bicocca
2009 - 2010 - Junior economist (funzionario a contratto) at the Italian Authority for Comunications (AGCOM), Roma
2007 - 2013 - Collaboration with Studio Economico Parcu & Associati, Roma
2001 - 2002 - Program Associate, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva
Other Academic Activities
2020-2023 - Treasurer of the Italian Society of Law & Economics
2016 - Visiting Professor at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre
2011 - 2015 - Secretary of the European Law & Economics Association
2005 - 2015 - Co-ordinator of the Scientific Secretariat of the Italian Society of Law and Economics
2009 - 2014 I was Assistant Editor of the International Review of Economics
2010 - Visiting scholar at the Copenhagen Business School, Department of InNovemberation and Organisational Economics
2009 and 2007 - Visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, College of Law
2007 - 2009 - Member of the editorial board of Consumatori, Diritti & Mercato
2006 - Research assistant of Prof Henry Smith, Yale Law School
2006 - worked in the editorial team of the Yale Journal of Regulation
2006 - Fulbright visiting scholar at the Yale Law School. Supervisor: Alan Schwartz
Scholarships and Grants
2024 – 2026 - PRIN (Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) PNRR 2022 - LUMSA unit coordinator for the project The Social and Environmental Consequences of Market Reforms: How Property Rights Shape Environmental Conservation, Civic Norms and Gender Roles in Societies
2023 – 2025 - PRIN (Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) 2022 - Member of the LUMSA team for the project Emotional Intelligence and Policies towards the Sustainable Transition
2016-2019 Jean Monnet module in European Approaches in Better Regulation
2016 Grant for Junior Scholars - LUMSA
2015 EIEF (Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance) Grants on the project Being Bourgeois: Cross-cultural Experiments on the Establishment of Private Propery
2012-2014 Researcher in the research project coordinated by prof Benito Arrunanda with title “Los Determinantes De La 'Performance' Institucional: Organizaciones, Contratos Y Instituciones Juridicas.” financed by the Ministerio De Ciencia E Innovación.
2006 Fulbright Commission, EU-USA program
2005 Fondazione Trentino Università
2003-2006 PhD scholarship, University of Siena, Ministry of education and research
2000-2003 Opera Universitaria, study abroad program, University of Trento
2001-2002 Swiss Occidental Leonardo, Swiss Federal Government
2001-2002 Leonardo program, EU and University of Trento.
1999-2000 Socrates/Erasmus program, EU and University of Trento
Editorial Review
Associate Editor of the International review of Economics
Reviewer for: American Law and Economics Review, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, Economic Journal, European Journal of Law and Economics, Frontiers in Psychology, Global Jurist, International Review of Economics, International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics, Business and Organization, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, Journal of Management, Religion and Spirituality Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Review of Law and Economics, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Social Science & Medicine