Luca Zarri is a Professor of Economic Policy at the Economics Department of the University of Verona, where, since 2023, he chairs the Student-Faculty Joint Teaching Committee (CPDS).
He received a BSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, an MSc in Economics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics, a PhD in Economics from the University of Pavia and a PhD in Economics from the University of East Anglia. He has been a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University and an adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Milano-Bicocca. In 2006, he lectured within the first undergraduate economics course ever taught in English at the University of Verona. He has also evaluated research projects and activities for several national and international institutions. He has delivered talks at numerous civic engagement events, including initiatives coordinated by the European Commission, the OECD and Médecins Sans Frontières. He has been Deputy Director of the Economics Department of the University of Verona from October 2018 to November 2021.
Professor Zarri's research focuses on behavioral economics and experimental economics and, in these areas, he has published over 30 papers in international journals including Journal of Economic Perspectives, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, NeuroImage, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Public Choice and Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and, since September 2023, is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology.
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JEL C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior | Design and analysis of laboratory experiments to study heterogeneity of individual behaviors, both in conditions of certainty and uncertainty and in cases involving risk. These experiments help to develop models with greater explanatory and forecasting power compared to those formulated by traditional economic theory. |
Behavioural and Experimental Economics
Design of Experiments |
JEL C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior | Analysis and design of laboratory experiments to study the behavior of individuals in contexts of strategic interaction to; (i) identify the role of social preferences in the presence of economic incentives, (ii) study individuals attitude towards cooperation in the contexts of a so-called "social dilemma" (such as the private provision of public goods) and (iii) proposing mechanisms to solve the dilemma. Experimental analysis of the role of communication in the context of strategic interaction and study of the role of the social influence of agents within networks. |
Behavioural and Experimental Economics
Design of Experiments |
JEL D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles | Theoretical and empirical analysis of individual preferences affected by (i) a "preference for belief consonance" (related to people's desire for the beliefs of other people or groups to align with their own) and (ii) social status concerns. |
Welfare and Collective Choice
Microeconomics |
JEL D87 - Neuroeconomics | Design and analysis of neuroscientific laboratory experiments aimed at shedding light on the neural underpinnings of individuals' sense of fairness and willingness to sanction unfair behavior. |
Welfare and Collective Choice
Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty |
JEL D91 - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making | Cover studies about the role of emotional, psychological, social or cognitive factors on individual choices, also using laboratory experiments. Also studies the consequences of traumatic events on economic behavior (in particular the attitude towards risk) both in the short and in the long term; deception and dishonest behavior; self-control problems. Study of the economic policy impacts of psychological and behavioral aspects in the context of consumption choices, pension savings and investment in education |
Behavioural and Experimental Economics
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics |
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