Post Doctoral Fellow in Economics

Publications

1. Income Inequality and Social Trust
   Economics Letters, 2025
   with Patrick Lown and Friederike Mengel
   

2. Welfare and Competition in Expert Advice Markets
   Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024
   with Matteo Ploner and Federico Vaccari
   

3. Individual Cheating in the Lab: A New Measure and External Validity
   Theory and Decision, 2022
   

4. Benchmarking Information Aggregation in Experimental Markets
   Economic Inquiry, 2021
   with Friederike Mengel and Ronald Peeters
   

Working Papers

1. Personal Relative Position and Belief in Meritocracy, 2025
   with Patrick Lown and Friederike Mengel
   
   (New draft in preparation)

2. Unity Through Rivalry: How Competition Mitigates Social Dilemmas, 2026
   with Alessandro Stringhi and Sara Gil-Gallen
   
   (R+R at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)

3. Beyond the Margin: Targeted Conservation and Household Water Demand, 2026
   with Elisabetta Leni and Ennio Bilancini
   

4. Fooling Yourself: How Narratives Shape Beliefs, 2026
   with Paolo Pin, Marco Stimolo, and Alessandro Stringhi

Work in Progress (data collected)

1. Cheating and Competition
   with Elke Weidenholzer