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Education

  • New York University , New York, NY. Ph.D. in Politics, May 2010;
  • Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, Ph.D. in Economics and Management, July 2006;
  • Università commerciale L. Bocconi , Milan, Italy, M.A. in Economics, July 2001;
  • Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy, B.A. in Political Science, December 1999

Work experience

  • Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  (2017 – );
  • Director of the Political Science Subject Pool, UNC Chapel Hill, (2017 – );
  • Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  (2010 – 2017);
  • EITM Mentoring Faculty in Residence, University of California at Berkeley, Summer 2010;
  • Instructor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009 – 2010.

Publications

  1. Parties’ Preferences for Office and Policy Goals
    Games, Vol. 12(6), 2021, 1–29.
  2. Experiments
    The SAGE Handbook of Political Science, Vol. 1(2), March 2020, ch.22.
  3. Weather, Risk, and Voting: an Experimental Analysis of the Effect of Weather on Vote Choice
    The Journal of Experimental Political Science, Vol. 6(1), Spring 2019, 17–32.
  4. Policy Preferences in Coalition Formation and the Stability of Minority and Surplus Governments
    The Journal of Politics, Vol. 79(1), January 2017, 250–68.
  5. Voting Systems and Strategic Manipulation: an Experimental Study
    Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol. 27(1), January 2015, 58–85.
  6. Examining monotonicity and saliency using level-k reasoning in a voting game 
    Games, Vol. 5, 2014, 26–52. With K. Williams.
  7. A Model of Endogenous Government Formation
    American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 57(4), October 2013, 777–793.
  8. ’O Sole Mio. An Experimental Analysis of Weather and Risk Attitudes in Financial Decisions
    Review of Financial Studies, 2013, 26(7), 1824-1852. (with R. Colacito and P. Fulghieri)
  9. The Effect of Identity, Incentives, and Information on Voting 
    The Journal of Politics, Vol. 73(2), April 2011, 558–571. With R. B. Morton and K. Williams.

Selected Working papers

  1. Someone likes it Skewed: an Experimental Analysis of Skewness and Risk Aversion, with R. Colacito
    and P. Fulghieri.
  2. Deconstructing Ellsberg, with R. Colacito, C. Schlag, and J. Thimme.
  3. Take a chance on me? A conjoint analysis of the factors voters use in evaluating candidate riskiness,
    with A. Theodoridis.
  4. A behavioral analysis of candidates’ riskiness and the effect on vote choice.

Professional Service

  • Editorial Board Member [2019-]: The Journal of Politics;
  • Editorial Board Member [2015-]: Journal of Theoretical Politics;
  • Editorial Board Member [2014-]: British Journal of Political Science;
  • American Political Science Association – Secretary of the Experimental Research Section (2018-2020);
  • Midtwest Political Science Association – Head of the Formal Modelling Section (2017);
  • UNC at Chapel Hill – Long-range planning committee (Fall 2017-);
  • Committee Member: Southern Political Science Association – Malcolm Jewell Award Committee (2013);
  • Committee Member: Society for Political Methodology – Polmeth Annual Meeting Program Committee (2012);
  • UNC at Chapel Hill – Undergraduate Studies Committee (Fall 2010, Spring 2011).

Referee

  • Political Science Journals: American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science,
    Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, World Politics,
    Journal of Theoretical Politics, Economics & Politics, Public Choice, Experimental Journal of Political
    Science, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly.
  • Economics& Business Journals: Experimental Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Organizational
    Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Games, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance,
    Games, Metroeconomica.
  • National Science Foundation: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences; Law & Social Sciences.

Invited seminars

  • 2016-2017, University of Rochester (Department of Political Science, February 2017), Bocconi University
    (Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, March 2017), “Assessing, Democratic Institutions”
    workshop (Toulouse School of Economics, March 2017).
  • 2014-2015, Behavioral Models of Politics Conference (Department of Political Science, Duke University,
    October 2014), Second Annual Formal Theory and Comparative Politics Conference (Department
    of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, October 2014).
  • 2013-2014, Stony Brook University (Department of Political Science and Economics, October 2013).
  • 2012-2013, NYU-CESS Experimental Political Science Conference (New York University, March
    2013).
  • 2011-2012, Virginia Commonwealth University (School of Economics and Business, April 2012).
  • 2010-2011, University of Minnesota (Department of Political Science, November 2010), Duke University
    (Institutions workshop, Department of Political Science, November 2010), University of California
    at San Diego (Department of Political Science, November 2010).
  • 2008-2009, Washington University at St. Louis, (Department of Political Science, October 2008),
    Princeton University (Department of Political Science, November 2008), University of North Carolina
    at Chapel Hill (Department of Political Science, December 2008), Northwestern University, Kellogg
    School of Management (MEDS Division, February 2009).
  • 2007-2008, Election and Distribution workshop (Department of Political Science, University of California
    San Diego, April 2008).

Conference presentations (This list does not include co-authors’ presentations)

  • 2017-2018, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings (San Francisco, CA, September
    2017).
  • 2016-2017, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Philadelphia, PA, September
    2016), Midwest Political Science Association Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2017).
  • 2015-2016, Midwest Political Science Association Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2016).
  • 2014-2015, Midwest Political Science Association Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2015).
  • 2013-2014, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Chicago, IL, August 2013),
    Economic Science Association North American Annual Meeting (Santa Cruz, CA, October 2013).
  • 2012-2013, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings (New Orleans, LA, August
    2012)*, Economic Science Association North American Annual Meeting (Tucson, AZ, November
    2012), Southern Political Science Association (Orlando, FL, January 2013), Midwest Political Science
    Association Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2013).
  • 2011-2012, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Seattle, WA, September 2011),
    Economic Science Association North American Annual Meeting (Tucson, AZ, November 2011), Midwest
    Political Science Association Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2012).
  • 2010-2011, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Washington, D.C., September
    2010), Southern Political Science Association (New Orleans, LA, January 2011), Midwest Political
    Science Association Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2011).
  • 2009-2010, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2010).
    2008-2009, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Boston, MA, September 2008),
    Conference on Experiments in Interactive Decision Making (Princeton, NJ, November 2008), Midwest
    Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2009).
  • 2007-2008, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Chicago, IL, September 2007),
    Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2008), Political Methodology
    Summer Meeting (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI July 2008).
  • 2006-2007, American Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Philadelphia, PA, September
    2006), Economic Science Association North American Annual Meeting (Tucson, AZ, September 2006),
    Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (UT at Austin, TX, October 2006), Midwest Political
    Science Association Annual Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2007)
  • 2005-2006 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meetings (Chicago, IL, April 2006), Political
    Methodology Summer Meeting (UC Davis, CA, July 2006)

Teaching experience

  • Poli 891 Seminar in Behavioral Economics, PhD, UNC at Chapel Hill (Fall 2017)
  • Poli 789 Game Theory, PhD, UNC at Chapel Hill (Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2014, Spring
    2015, Spring 2017)
  • Poli 791 Game Theory II, PhD UNC at Chapel Hill (Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2014, Fall 2016)
  • Poli 288 Strategy and Politics, undergraduate, UNC at Chapel Hill (Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall
    2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
  • Poli 488 Advanced Game Theory, undergraduate, UNC at Chapel Hill (Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016,
    Spring 2017)
  • Poli 495 Causality and Experimentation in Social Science, senior seminar, UNC at Chapel Hill
    (Fall 2010)
  • Poli 285 ‘Research methods and experiments’, UNC at Chapel Hill (Fall 2009, Spring
    2010, Spring 2012, Fall 2012)

Grants, honors, and awards

  • Nominated for the 2016-17 Faculty Mentoring Awards.
  • EITM Research Subaward, (January–July 2011).
  • McCracken Fellowship, (September 2005–June 2009).
  • Sant’Anna School Fellowship, (September 2001–August 2004).
  • Fondazione Invernizzi Fellowship, (September 2000–June 2001).
  • B.A. in Political Science summa cum laude.
  • Università degli Studi di Firenze Fellowship, (September 1995 – June 1999).