Carmine Guerriero

Carmine Guerriero is Rita Levi-Montalcini Associate Professor of Economics. His chair has been established thanks to a 3.4 million Euros 2016 Rita Levi-Montalcini grant from MUR. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 2010, has been Program Director of the ACLE from 2009 to 2016 and has served as associate editor of the IRLE from 2012 to 2020. From 2017, Guerriero is Co-PI of the Origins Project, which is now funded by a 2022 PRIN grant. In 2020, he has founded the Cambridge Elements in Law, Economics and Politics for which he serves as Editor-in-Chief. From 2023, he is part of the editorial board of Public Choice. He has received the EARIE Paul Geroski award prize in 2007 and the Hans-Jurgen-Ewers Prize in 2011, studies the determinants and impact of legal and political institutions, and has published in top economics, law, politics, history and multidisciplinary journals, i.e., Economica, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Archaeological Science, Quaternary Science Reviews, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and PNAS.