Maria Bigoni Curriculum Vitae Personal information Name Address Home Page Bigoni Maria Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Università di Bologna piazza Scaravilli 2 40126, Bologna, Italia www2.dse.unibo.it/bigoni Telephone +39 051 209 8135 voip: +39 051 0548508 Fax +39 051 0544522 E-mail maria.bigoni@unibo.it Nationality Italian Date of birth 03 September 1980 Academic positions Dates Project 01 February 2009 present Research Fellow (Assegno di Ricerca) Experimental analysis of norms of cooperation in long term interactions. Supervisor: Marco Casari University of Bologna, Department of Economcs Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy Dates 01 March 2008 31 January 2009 Research Fellow (Assegno di Ricerca) Project Contracts, regulation and competition in public utilities with two-ways networks (PRIN 2006). Supervisor: Paola Valbonesi. University of Padova, Department of Economics Via Del Santo 33, 35123 Padova, Italy Teaching Experiences Dates 17 March 2010 20 April 2010 Instructor Z-Tree course, for programming computerized experiments. The course was open to doctoral students and post-docs. University of Bologna, Facoltà di Economia Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy. Dates 01 October 2008 31 January 2009 Teaching Assistant Industrial Organization, undergraduate course. University of Padova, Facoltà di Scienze Statistiche Via C. Battisti, 241, 35121 Padova, Italy. Dates 01 October 2007 31 July 2008 Page 1 -
Teaching Assistant Microeconomics, LMEC (Master Degree in Economics, courses held in English). University of Bologna, Facoltà di Economia Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy. Non-academic experences Dates 01 September 2004-28 February 2005 Main activities and responsibilities intern Economic and econometric research. Production of short term and medium term forecasts for the Italian economy with the use of macroeconometric models. Prometeia s.r.l. Via G. Marconi, 43, 40122 Bologna, Italy Education Qualification awarded Principal subjects Dates March 01, 2005 April 24, 2008 Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D) and Doctor Europaeus 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 IMT - s, Markets, Technologies. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy Dates 4-9 July 2005 Università di Trento, Summer School: Explaining the Emergence and Design of s, Norms and Contracts Qualification awarded Principal subjects Dates October 2002 - July 2004 Graduate Degree in Economics (Laurea Specialistica in Economia), Laurea Magna cum Laude 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. Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Title of qualification awarded Dates October 1999 - October 2002 Undergraduate Degree in Economics and Finance (Laurea in Economia e Finanza curriculum economico), Laurea Magna cum Laude Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Visiting at other s Dates May 2008 July 2008 Page 2 - Visiting Scholar Department of Economics, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
Dates January 2007 June 2007 Visiting Graduate Student and Assistant Researcher on an experimental and theoretical research project about Antitrust Policy and Leniency Programs. Stockholm School of Economics. Dates October 2006 December 2006 Visiting Graduate Student Université Toulouse 1. Dates April 2006 June 2006 Visiting Graduate Student Stockholm School of Economics. Dates February 2006 - March 2006 Visiting Graduate Student 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 Full Ph.D. scholarship granted by the Italian Ministry of Education, university and Research. Page 3 -
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 Experimental Instructions: too many words?, with Davide Dragone. Seminars 2008 Univarsity of Bologna - Internal seminar; Tilburg University Invited seminar; University of Padova Internal seminar. Page 4 -
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; Experimental Economics. Page 5 -