Personale docente

Birth: 11/8/1976, Parma. November 2000, Laurea (University Degree) in Economics, University of Parma, Faculty of Economics. January 2005, Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pavia.

Previous positions
From 2005 to 2009: Research Fellow at the inter-university centre for economic ethics and corporate social responsibility “EconomEtica”, located at the University of Milano-Bicocca and connected to its Department of Sociology and Social Research.
From 2010 to 2012 Assistant Professor (RTD) of Economics at the University of Milano Bicocca – Faculty of Sociology.
From 2012 to 2014 Assistant Professor (Ricercatore non confermato) of Economics at the University of Parma – Department of Law.

Current position
From 2014 he is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Parma - Department of Law, Politics and International Studies.

Other positions 

From 2017 - President of the degree course in Political Sciences

Deputy Operating Director of EconomEtica - inter-university center for economic ethics and corporate social responsibility

From 2017/2018 - member of the Faculty Board of the Ph.D. Program in Juridical Sciences, set up in a consortium between the University of Parma and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

From 28/02/2019 - member of CIRS - Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca sociale - Università di Parma 

He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity and of Impresa Sociale.

His research interests concern: behavioral economics, social capital, nonprofit organizations, ethics and economics and corporate social responsibility.

He participated in several research projects on various issues; he collaborated with the Universities of: Parma, Padova, Milano Bicocca and Trento.

He is author of various articles in international refereed journals (Ecological Economics - with G. Vittucci Marzetti, International Review of Applied Economics - with R. Borgoni, M. Faillo and A. Michelangeli, Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, International Review of Economics - with L. Becchetti and M. Faillo, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics - with G. Grimalda, Journal of Economic Psychology - with L. Becchetti, Journal of Socio-Economics (4; 1 with L. Becchetti and M. Faillo; 1 with L. Sacconi; 1 with L. Becchetti, S. Ottone and N. Solferino), Kyklos, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly – with E. Portale, Rationality and Society - with L. Becchetti, M. Faillo and L. Mittone, Review of Social Economy – with F. Sabatini, Revue International de Sociologie, Social Choice and Welfare – with L. Bechetti and P. Conzo), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy - with L. Becchetti, S. Ottone and N. Solferino ), 4 articles in Italian refereed journals (Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, Stato e Mercato, Rivista di Politica Economica - with E. Portale, Impresa Sociale - with F. Sabatini), 4 book chapters (3 with co-authors) and editor, with L. Sacconi, of an international volume published by Palgrave MacMillan: “Social Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Behaviour and Performance”.

He presented his papers in many conferences and organized various conferences and summer schools on topics related to the behavioural economics, ethics and economics and corporate social responsibility.