Marco Piovesan

Marco Piovesan is a Full Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Verona. Prior to his move to Verona in September 2021, he was a Professor at the University of Copenhagen and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He received his PhD in economics and management from the University of Padova in 2007.

Marco’s research focuses on the heterogeneity of time, risk, and social preferences, and how these preferences change during childhood and adolescence. He also investigates how cognitive abilities interact with these preferences. As part of the KIDS project funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, Marco has organized and coordinated several lab-in-the-field experiments in Danish primary schools. He has also led a team of researchers studying how behavioral insights can promote healthy aging in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Healthy Aging (CEHA). Marco has been awarded several grants for his research and teaching initiatives as Principal Investigator.

Marco has published papers in prestigious, refereed journals such as the American Economic Review, European Economic Review, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, Plos One, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He has also published in specialized field journals including Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Review of Behavioral Economics. In addition to his academic publications, Marco has written book chapters and policy reports. His research has been cited over 2000 times by other scientific papers and has been featured in several newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Businessweek, Washington Post, Daily Mail, books and many international blogs.

Marco has presented his work at numerous academic seminars, conferences, and workshops around the world, as well as at events organized to facilitate discussion with the general public. He has an international network of co-authors from prestigious universities such as Harvard, Chicago, NYU, UCL, Copenhagen, Vienna, Madrid, Bologna, and Lund. Throughout his career, he has also visited prestigious universities and institutions around the world. Marco has organized several conferences and workshops, and has invited scholars to give seminars, visit, and teach advanced courses at his institution.

Marco is a member of the Economics Department Board of the University of Verona and actively participates in various hiring committees and focus groups to improve scientific quality and research outcomes. Recently, the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) recognized his department as one of the best in Italian universities. Marco serves as Scientific Project Manager, responsible for planning, launching, directing, monitoring, and controlling this project. Previously, he was the Director of the Centre for Experimental Economics and a member of the Center of Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) at the University of Copenhagen. He also participated in the CEHA Steering Committee and the Research Ethics Committee.

Marco has taught a variety of courses at all levels (bachelor, master, and PhD), primarily in microeconomics, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. Recently, he began offering a course for PhD students on how to plan their PhD in economics and consider their future career. Marco has supervised and mentored Assistant Professors, postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and numerous master’s and bachelor’s students. He also created and supervised a weekly lab meeting (TRIBE) on research in behavioral economics and its applications. For his teaching activity, Marco was nominated for the “Harald of the Year” award in 2015, 2017, and 2018, and his lab meeting was nominated for the “Study Environment Award.”

Full CV.

News for students

There you will find information, resources and services useful during your time at the University (Student’s exam record, your study plan on ESSE3, Distance Learning courses, university email account, office forms, administrative procedures, etc.). You can log into MyUnivr with your GIA login details: only in this way will you be able to receive notification of all the notices from your teachers and your secretariat via email and soon also via the Univr app.