CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2017- Associate Professor (tenure-track)
Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
2017- Researcher (part-time)
Statistics Norway
2013-2017 Assistant Professor (4-years post-doc position)
Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
2019-2023 “Value Judgments and Redistribution Policies” (VALURED), European Research Council starting grant, Budget: 1mil Euro (1,20 mil USD), Principal investigator
2017-2021 “Inequality: Measurement, Evolution, Mechanisms, and Policies”, Research Council of Norway (FriPro), Budget: 10mil NOK (1,15 mil USD), Coprincipal investigator
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND PRIZES
2014 “Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award” assigned at the CESifo Annual Area Conference in Energy and Climate Economics
2013 Louis-Andrè Gèrard-Varet Prize awarded by the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET)
2012-2013 Fellowship, Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE)
2009-2012 Ph.D. fellowship, ARC project on Sustainability, Université catholique de Louvain
2010 Ph.D. visiting fellowship, Communauté Française, Belgium
2008-2009 Marie Curie (early stage training) fellowship at CORE, Université catholique de Louvain
2007 Oddone Fantini Prize for the best graduate dissertation from “Associazione Nazionale per lo Studio dei Problemi del Credito” (ANSPC)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
2019 "The Ethics of Intergenerational Risk". Accepted at Journal of Economic Theory.
2019 “A Lipsetian Theory of Voluntary Power Handover" (with R. Boucekkine and F. Prieur). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 168: 269 - 291.
2017 “A Fairness Justification of Utilitarianism,” Econometrica, 85: 1261-1276.
2015 "Equity and Efficiency in an Overlapping Generation Model” (with Tanguy Isaac), Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, 44: 549-565.
2014 “Intergenerational Egalitarianism,” Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 153: 117-127.
2014 “Announcements as an Equilibrium Selection Device” (with N. Acocella, G. Di Bartolomeo and A. Hughes-Hallett). Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66: 325-347.
2009 “Conflict of interests, (Implicit) Coalitions and Nash Policy Games” (with N.Acocella and G. Di Bartolomeo), Economics Letters, 2009, 105: 303-305.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2012 “Conflicts and coordination among groups” (with N. Acocella, G. di Bartolomeo, and A. Hughes-Hallett) in The theory of economic policy in a strategic context, N. Acocella, G. di Bartolomeo, and A. Hughes-Hallett; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2012 “Announcements as a coordination mechanism” (with N. Acocella, G. di Bartolomeo, and A. Hughes-Hallett) in The theory of economic policy in a strategic context, N. Acocella, G. di Bartolomeo, and A. Hughes-Hallett; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2019 Workshop on inequality; main organizer; 18 participants; Oslo, Norway.
2019 Workshop on macro heterogeneity and redistribution; co-organizer; 30 participants; Oslo, Norway.
2018 EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School; invited organizer and lecturer; 20 students and 6 lecturers; Venice, Italy.
MOBILITY (research stays)
2019 Jun. Department of Economics, LMU Munich and Ifo Institute
2018 Nov. Department of Economics, Princeton University
2016 Oct. Department of Economics, University of Chicago
2016 Oct. Department of Economics, University of Rochester
2014 Sept. CORE, Université catholique de Louvain
2014 Mar. University of Warwick
2012-2013 AMSE-GREQAM, Université Aix-Marseille
2012 Jul Department of Economics, University of Rochester
2012 Jun Department of Economics, Université de Montreal
2010-2011 European University Institute (EUI), Florence
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RESEARCH FELLOWS
2018- 1 PhD (Kristoffer Berg) at Department of Economics, University of Oslo
(expected PhD defence, July 2021);
2016- 7 master students at Department of Economics, University of Oslo
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2019 PhD minicourse on Welfare Economics at LMU (CES), Munich.
2017- Professor - ECON4240 - Equilibrium, Welfare and Information, University of Oslo
2015- Professor - ECON4271 - Distributive Justice and Economic Inequality, University of Oslo
2014- Professor - ECON320/4200 - master-level microeconomics, University of Oslo
2014- Professor - ECON5200/9200 - PhD-level microeconomics, University of Oslo
2012-2013 Teaching Assistant - Advanced Microeconomics I, Aix-Marseille University
2009-2010 Teaching Assistant – Advanced Microeconomics I, Universitè Catholique de Louvain
2008-2010 Teaching Assistant – Advanced Macroeconomics II, Universitè Catholique de Louvain
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2018 Head of the hiring committee, Department of Economics, University of Oslo
2017 - Scientific Advisory Board of the Doctoral School in Economics at “Sapienza University,” Rome, Italy
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2018 - Editorial board (responsible for about 10 submissions per year), Mathematical Social Sciences
2013 - Reviewer for (about 40 submissions per year): American Economic Review; American Economic Review: Insights; American Economic Journal: Microeconomics; Climate Change Economics; Econometrica; Economic Theory; Environmental and Resource Economics; International Economic Review; Italian Journal of Public Economics; Manchester School; Mathematical Social Sciences; Nordic Journal of Political Economy; Oxford Economic Papers; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of European Economic Association; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Social Choice and Welfare; Theoretical Economics; Theory and Decisions; and Oxford University Press.
MEMBERSHIPS OF ACADEMIES / SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2013 - American Economic Association; Econometric Society; European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists; Society for Social Choice and Welfare.
INVITED SEMINARS (economic departments and research institutions):
2020 Conference on “Normative Ethics and Welfare Economics” (US).
2019 Siena (Italy); Glasgow (UK); Hamburg (Germany).
2018 Universite de Montreal (Canada); UQAM (Canada); Northwestern (US); ETH (Swizerland); University of Oxford (UK); University of Namur (Belgium).
2017 DIW-Berlin (Germany); NHH (Bergen, Norway); NES (Moscow, Russia); HSE (Moscow, Russia); University of Oregon (US); Bristol (UK); University of Melbourne (Australia); Monash University (Australia); Mannheim (Germany); University of Copenhagen (Denmark); Surrey (UK); Copenhagen Business School (Denmark).
2016 Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan); Statistics Norway (Oslo, Norway); NTNU (Trondheim, Norway).
2015 Toulouse School of Economics (France); Aix-Marseille University (France); Roma III (Italy); Statistics Norway (Oslo, Norway).
2014 FEEM (Milan and Venice, Italy).
2013 Aix-Marseille University (France), Santa Clara University (US), University of Oslo (Norway), University of St. Andrews (UK), Université Laval (Canada).
INVITED PRESENTATIONS (conferences, workshops, and summer schools):
2019 invited lecturer at CES.
2018 invited organizer and lecturer at EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School (Venice).
2015 invited lecturer at Winter School on Inequality and Social Welfare Theory (Canazei, Italy).
2014 3rd International Workshop "Game Theory - Economics and Mathematics" on Fair Allocation theory (Odense, Danmark); workshop in honour of Geir Asheim (Oslo, Norway).
2012 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Konstanz, Germany); Sixth Academia Belgica Francqui Foundation Rome Conference (Rome, Italy); Workshop on intergenerational equity and climate change (Paris, France).
PRESENTATIONS AT PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCES:
2019 NTA (Tampa); IIPF (Glasgow); Workshop on inequality (Oslo)
2018 CESifo Area Conference on Energy & Climate Economics (Munich, Germany); CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics (Munich, Germany).
2016 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Edinburgh); XII meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (Lund); Midwest Spring Theory Meetings (Rochester).
2015 The Ethics of Social Risk (Montreal); EAERE conference (Helsinki); LAGV (Aix-en-Provence).
2014 CESifo Area Conference on Energy & Climate Economics (Munich); XI meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (Boston); SURED (Monte Verità, Swizerland); BEEER (Bergen).
2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (Bilbao, Spain).
2012 X Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (Moscow, Russia).