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The experimental lab in Bologna: a road to explore human behavior

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:41:46 +0200

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The Bologna Laboratory for Experiments in the Social Sciences is a center for behavioral research. A team of scholars from the Department of Economics regularly conduct experiments with volunteers to test models of behavior and uncover pattern that emerge from our economic and social interactions.

The lab was founded by Marco Casari in 2010 through an ERC grant to carry out a project to map social norms of cooperation in the South and the North of Italy, and has since branched out in many directions.

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What We Had in Common: A Public Archive of Charters of the Italian Commons

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 14:08:36 +0200

The Charters that regulated the governance of community commons in an Italian region (Trentino) are now available in a public archive called CARTEDIREGOLA.ITnbsp;

The Economics Prize Winner Prof. Elinor Ostrom based her discoveries and innovative perspective on institutions on documents like these ones. She looked at some communities in Switzerland, but was unaware of the large presence of community governance also in Italy.nbsp;

You can search among hundreds of community Charters and download the documents. The communities are localized on an interactive map, see below. The website is in Italian.

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What do economists teach about climate change?

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:12:08 +0100

Is the training of economists keeping pace with the growing research on climate change? Is climate change considered a central or a specialized economic topic? Hugo Charmetant and I are talking about these issues here.

The website is based on the comprehensive analysis of fifty-seven introductory textbooks for undergraduate students. The findings reveal a notable divergence in perspectives across countries and between the domains of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.

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The webiste can be of interest for both instructors and students. It is based on the 2024 journal article by Charmetant, Hugo; Casari, Marco; Arvaniti, Maria, What do economists teach about climate change? An analysis of introductory economics textbooks, which appeared in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.