APPOINTMENTS:
1992- Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Siena (Faculty of Economics, Department of Political Economy)
1991- Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Economics of Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
1988-1990: Secretary of the Joint Siena-Firenze-Pisa Ph.-D. Program Committee .
1988 : Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge , Faculty of Economics and Politics.
1986-: Ricercatore Confermato ( i.e. Tenured Assistant Professor) at the Institute of Economics of the University of Siena.
1983-: Ricercatore ( i.e. Assistant Professor ) at the Institute of Economics of the University of Siena.
EDUCATION:
- Laurea in Philosophy at the University of Pisa (1978)
- Diploma di Licenza in Filosofia at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa , Laurea candidate in Mathematics (Univ. of Siena), and Perfezionamento (Postgraduate degree ) in Philosophy and Social Sciences. ( Univ . of Urbino 1981)
RESEARCH TOPICS:
Structure theory of effectivity functions, game-theoretic properties of voting and social choice mechanisms, non-manipulable mechanisms, social networks and the evolution of cooperation .
WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS ( a selected sample )
- Voting for a Coalition Government : A Game-Theoretic View . European Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming
- Mild-Strategy-Proofness and Monotonicity of Choice Aggregation Rules . CITG Papers in Game Theory, forthcoming.
- Social Ethics and Implementation Theory in Farina, Hahn, Vannucci(eds.) : Ethics, Rationality, and Economic Behaviour : Clarendon Press 1996
- Social Networks and Efficient Outcomes in Recurrent Common Interest Games , D.P.E.( Department of Political Economy) WPS 208 , 1996.
- Stable Standards of Behaviour and Capacities of Simple Games , D.P.E. WPS 193, 1996
- The Proportional Approval Lottery Rule under Dichotomic Preferences : A Characterization . D.P.E. WPS 184 , 1995.
- The Arithmetic Mean is Mildly Strategy-Proof . D.P.E. WPS 175, 1994 .
- A Note on Acyclicity Properties of Binary Relations. Economic Notes 22, 1993 .
- A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Some Two-Ballot Electoral Systems . CITG Papers in Game Theory 13, 1993 .
- On Consistency Properties of Some Strongly Implementable Social Choice Rules with Endogenous Agenda Formation , in Bicchieri, Dalla Chiara(eds.) : Knowledge, Belief and Strategic Interaction , Cambridge University Press 1992.
- Non-cooperative Capacities of Simple Games , in Ricci (ed.) : Decision Processes in Economics, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 353, Springer Verlag 1991 .
- Choice Functions on Pairwise-Disjoint Domains and G-Rationalizability . European Journal of Political Economy 7 , 1991.
- Scelta Democratica, Razionalita' Collettiva ed Economia del Benessere . Quaderni di Politeia 35, 1990.
- Effectivity Functions, Indices of Power, and Implementation . Economic Notes 15, 1986.