Marco Casari

Marco Casari is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, where he directs the Bologna Laboratory for Experiments in Social Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He held academic positions at Purdue University, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Ohio State University, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

His research spans experimental and behavioral economics, environmental economics, and institutional economics, with a particular focus on cooperation, climate change, and the functioning of markets. His work has been published in leading journals, including Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association, PNAS, the Economic Journal, and Experimental Economics. He has received an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council and research funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, the European Commission, the Italian Government, and other public and private institutions. Beyond research, he was the director of doctoral and undergraduate programs.