BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” #NobelPrize

The 2022 European Meeting of Economic Science Association (Economic Science Association) is coming soon. We are very excited to host the event in Bologna. Lots of interesting talks! Really looking forward to seeing many familiar faces and meeting others for the first time. #esabologna

"When one teaches, two learn." 🧠 -- Robert Heinlein

2022 European ESA Bologna: Sule Alan "Addressing the Global Learning Crisis: Nurturing Curiosity in the Classroom" #esabologna

#esabologna Giuseppe Sorrenti giving a super interesting talk on 'the causal impact of socio-emotional skills on educational success'

#esabologna rocks!

#esabologna a social dinner with a view. Palazzo Re Enzo!

After the warm presidential address by M.Claire Villeval, Axel Ockenfels gave an inspirational talk on how behavioral economists can contribute to designing markets to solve key societal problems #esabologna

Yesterday we had an other cool session on theory-driven experiments at #esabologna: Sigrid Suetens ➡️reputation and cooperation; Arno Riedl ➡️intertemporal social preferences; Lorenz Goette ➡️expectation-based reference points

📷 #esabologna group picture It was such a great pleasure to host this fantastic crowd in Bologna ❤️ #EconTwitter DSE UniBo Economics Economic Science Association

Many thanks to Friederike Mengel (University of Essex) for her insightful talk on "Non-Bayesian Statistical Discrimination" at DSE UniBo Economics, a wonderful example of how to combine theory with a neat experimental design, to answer policy relevant questions.

Urge un cambiamento culturale che liberi le donne dal carico emotivo legato alla gestione della casa, che può avere conseguenze negative sulla loro sfera privata e lavorativa. Ne parlano F. Barigozzi, N. Montinari e S. Vitellozzi #PiùVociAllaVoce #IWD lavoce.info/archives/10031…

Watch our new video! youtube.com/watch?v=8eAWiq… Gendered Society: Unraveling the Story behind Gender Norms and Inequality A special thanks to Marco Speroni and Immagina SRL

That is another reason why we should not have meetings outside "core" business hours. Missing these "informal meetings" is penalising for people with caring obligations. This includes conferences on Saturday, seminars and journal club in the evening, retreats on weekends etc.

Giulio Regeni was a Cambridge PhD student. He was murdered 8 years ago in Egypt because of his research. Next week an academic event is to be held in Egypt. 27 other Italian colleagues, @giannetti_cate and me have written a letter to raise awareness. shorturl.at/pTYZ6

Uno studio evidenzia che le quote di genere favoriscono consigli più diversificati, riducono la volatilità del prezzo delle azioni e aumentano la stabilità aziendale. L'analisi di Federica Esposito e Natalia Montinari #AutriciPerLaVoce #InvestInWomen lavoce.info/archives/10401…

An essay by Richard H Thaler and yours truly on Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, his greatest collaborator. newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Reflecting on the 17th Workshop on Social Economists for Young Economists in Forlì! Insightful keynotes from David Schindler & Alexia Delfino, plus great presentations by talented young economists in a friendly environment. #EconTwitter

DSE retreat at Badia Prataglia: more brainstorming and debates, fewer spreadsheets and data! A couple of weeks ago, we came together to identify the main challenges we want to tackle in the coming years. Collaboration was in full swing—even w/o laptops! #Econtwitter #DeptRetreat

“I stick to my strengths” 🤣 #CalvinandHobbes