Maria Bigoni
Curriculum Vitae
Personal informationName Bigoni Maria
Address Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche – Università di Bologna piazza Scaravilli 2
40126, Bologna, Italia Home Page www2.dse.unibo.it/bigoni
Telephone +39 051 209 8135 voip: +39 051 0548508
Fax +39 051 0544522 E-mail [email protected] Nationality Italian
Date of birth 03 September 1980 Academic positions
Dates 01 February 2009 – present
Position Research Fellow (Assegno di Ricerca)
Project Experimental analysis of norms of cooperation in long term interactions. Supervisor: Marco Casari
Name and address of employer
University of Bologna, Department of Economcs Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy Dates 01 March 2008 – 31 January 2009 Position Research Fellow (Assegno di Ricerca)
Project Contracts, regulation and competition in public utilities with two-ways networks (PRIN 2006). Supervisor: Paola Valbonesi.
Name and address of
employer University of Padova, Department of EconomicsVia Del Santo 33, 35123 Padova, Italy
Teaching Experiences
Dates 17 March 2010 – 20 April 2010 Position Instructor
Course Z-Tree course, for programming computerized experiments. The course was open to doctoral students and post-docs.
Name and address of
employer University of Bologna, Facoltà di EconomiaPiazza Scaravilli 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy. Dates 01 October 2008 – 31 January 2009
Position Teaching Assistant
Course Industrial Organization, undergraduate course. Name and address of
employer University of Padova, Facoltà di Scienze StatisticheVia C. Battisti, 241, 35121 Padova, Italy. Dates 01 October 2007 – 31 July 2008
Position Teaching Assistant
Course Microeconomics, LMEC (Master Degree in Economics, courses held in English). Name and address of
employer
University of Bologna, Facoltà di Economia Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy. Non-academic experences
Dates 01 September 2004 - 28 February 2005 Position intern
Main activities and responsibilities
Economic and econometric research. Production of short term and medium term forecasts for the Italian economy with the use of macroeconometric models.
Name and address of
employer Prometeia s.r.l.Via G. Marconi, 43, 40122 Bologna, Italy
Education
Dates March 01, 2005 – April 24, 2008
Qualification awarded Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D) and Doctor Europaeus
Principal subjects Competition Policy, Applied Econometric, Industrial Organisation, Economic Analysis of Law.
Dissertation title: “Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Collusion” Supervisor: Giancarlo Spagnolo
Referees: Andreas Ortmann and Magnus Johannesson Institution IMT - Institutions, Markets, Technologies.
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy Dates 4-9 July 2005
Institution Università di Trento, Summer School: “Explaining the Emergence and Design of Institutions, Norms and Contracts”
Dates October 2002 - July 2004
Qualification awarded Graduate Degree in Economics (Laurea Specialistica in Economia), Laurea Magna cum Laude Principal subjects Dissertation title: “Razionalità, apprendimento adattivo e convenzioni
sociali: teoria, simulazioni e prospettive di ricerca” (Rationality, adaptive learning and social conventions: theory, simulations and research perspectives). Supervisor: Professor Elettra Agliardi.
Institution Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Dates October 1999 - October 2002
Title of qualification awarded Undergraduate Degree in Economics and Finance (Laurea in Economia e Finanza – curriculum economico), Laurea Magna cum Laude
Dates January 2007 – June 2007
Position Visiting Graduate Student and Assistant Researcher on an experimental and theoretical research project about Antitrust Policy and Leniency Programs.
Institution Stockholm School of Economics. Dates October 2006 – December 2006 Position Visiting Graduate Student Institution Université Toulouse 1.
Dates April 2006 – June 2006 Position Visiting Graduate Student Institution Stockholm School of Economics.
Dates February 2006 - March 2006 Position Visiting Graduate Student
Institution Università di Trento - Doctoral Program in Economics and Management
Personal skills and competences:
Mother tongue Italian
Other languages English – proficient.
CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English – University of Cambridge) passed with grade A in June 2008.
Computer skills and competences
Window and Linux OS
Microsoft Office and Sun OpenOffice packages, LaTex and Scientific Workplace,
Matlab, Octave, Mathematica, Stata, Html, MySQL, PHP, Javascript, Basic knowledge of C++
Software for lab experiments: Z-tree, MouselabWEB. Grants:
Dates 01 March 2005 → 29 February 2008
Publications: “What Do You Want To Know? Information Acquisition and Learning in Experimental Cournot
Games”, Research in Economics 64(1), 2010.
“Informazione a priori ed insorgenza dell’equilibrio: un modello di simulazione” (A priori information and the onset of equilibrium: a simulation model).
In Sistema Economico, 3/2004.
Working Papers: “Sticks and Carrots in Procurement”, joint with Giancarlo Spagnolo and Paola Valbonesi. Current version: August 2010. Submitted.
Previously published as: Università degli Studi di Padova, Marco Fanno Working Paper n. 105, 2009
“Trust, Salience and Deterrence” joint with Chloé Le Coq, Sven Olof Fridolfsson and Giancarlo Spagnolo. Current version: July 2010. Submitted.
Previously published as “Risk Aversion, Prospect Theory, and Strategic Risk in Law Enforcement: Evidence From an Antitrust Experiment”,
SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance N. 696, 2008.
“Ignorance is not Always Bliss: Feedback and Dynamics in Public Good Experiments”, with Sigrid Suetens. CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2010-64. Submitted.
“Communication, commitment, and deception in social dilemmas: experimental evidence”, with Gabriele Camera and Marco Casari. Purdue University, Krannert Working Paper Series No.1236, 2010. Submitted.
“Cooperative strategies in groups of strangers: an experiment”, with Gabriele Camera and Marco Casari. Purdue University, Krannert Working Paper Series No.1237, 2010. Submitted.
“Fines, Leniency and Rewards in Antitrust: an Experiment”, joint with Chloé Le Coq, Sven Olof Fridolfsson and Giancarlo Spagnolo. Current version: April 2010. Submitted.
Previously published as: CEPR Discussion Papers 7417, 2009.
“Information and Learning in Oligopoly: an Experiment”
Current version: July 2009.
Previously published as: Università degli Studi di Padova, Marco Fanno Working Paper n. 72, 2008
Works in progress: “Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Performance, Cooperation and Competition”, with Margherita Fort, Mattia Nardotto and Tommaso Reggiani.
“Imperfect Monitoring, Flexibility and Collusion: Experimental Evidence”, with Jan Potters and Giancarlo Spagnolo
“The Role of Information in Games played in Quasi-Continuous Time”, with Marco Casari, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Andrzej Skrzypacz
2009 University of London, Royal Holloway – Invited seminar; University of Bologna – Internal seminar;
University of Frankfurt, Wolfgang Goethe – Invited seminar; Univesity of Padova – Invited seminar.
2010 University of Bologna – Internal seminar;
Conferences
2007 Conference of the French Economic Association, Lyon, France; The ESA World Meeting, Rome, Italy;
Nordic Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Gothenburgh, Sweden. 2008 IMEBE (International Meeting on Behavioral and Experimental Economics), Alicante, Spain;
International ESA Meeting, Pasadena, California; EEA/ES Parallel Meeting, Milan, Italy;
IAREP/SABE World Meeting, Rome, Italy;
WZB Conference on Markets and Politics, Berln, Germany; 2009 ASSA Meeting, San Francisco, California;
Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop, Florence, Italy; “Economia Sociale: il contributo dei giovani economisti”, Forlì, Italy; CRESSE Conference, Chania (Crete), Greece;
ESA European Meeting, Innsbruck, Austria.
2010 Annual Law and Economic Conference, Bologna, Italy;
IMEBE (International Meeting on Behavioral and Experimental Economics), Bilbao, Spain. ACLE (Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics) Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ESA World Meeting 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Referee reports for journals and institutions
2009 Israeli Science Foundation; Research in Economics.
2010 Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Southern Economic Journal;
