Marcello PUCA | Curriculum
Marcello PUCA Curriculum
Marcello Puca
Curriculum Vitae
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University of Salerno Department of Economics and Statistics Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 - 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy |
Date of birth: 15/09/1985 Nationality: Italian Email: marcellopuca@gmail.com Website: www.marcellopuca.com |
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Current position
| 2024 – present | Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno (Italy) |
Other affiliations
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| 2021 – present | Research fellow, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), Italy
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Past positions
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| 2023 – 2024 | Visiting research fellow, Centre for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) |
| 2022 – 2024 | Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bergamo (Italy) |
| 2017 – 2020 | Senior postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Economics, University of Bergamo (Italy) |
| 2013 – 2022 | Research fellow, Walker School of Business & Technology, Webster University Geneva (Switzerland) |
| 2016 – 2017 | Visiting research fellow, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan (Italy) |
| 07/2015 | Visiting scholar, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago (IL) |
| 07/2014 | Visiting scholar, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago (IL) |
Education
| 2014 | Ph.D. in Economics, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) |
| 2012 | M.Phil. in Quantitative Methods for Economics (Diplome Européen d’Economie Quantitative Approfondie), Toulouse School of Economics |
| 2011 | M.Res. in Economic Theory and Econometrics (ECOMATH), Toulouse School of Economics |
| 2010 | M.Sc. in Economics and Finance (MEF), University of Naples Federico II |
| 2009 | M.A. in Economics, Summa cum laude, University of Naples Federico II |
| 2007 | B.A. in Business Economics, University of Naples Federico II |
Research interests
Political Economy, Public Economics, Economics of Institutions, Behavioral Economics.
Scholarships and grants
| 2023-25 | Italian Research and Education Ministry (PRIN). Project: “BREAK THE BIAS: new data and methods to investigate the presence andimpact of gender stereotypes on economic outcomes.” Research team member. |
| 2023-24 | Fondazione Cariplo, Inequalities Research. Project: “Gender and education inequalities: the role of digital and financial literacy to support women empowerment.” Research team member. |
| 2020 | Annual Research Grant, Webster University Geneva. Project title: “The role of history in shaping social preferences”. Principal investigator. |
| 2018 | Annual Research Grant, Webster University Geneva. Project title: “Corruption and Stereotypes.” Principal investigator. |
| 2014 – 2016 | Swiss National Science Foundation post-doc grant. Project title: “Institutional complementarities among corporate ownership, employment protection and innovation: the Swiss case.” |
| 2013 – 2014 | Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), research grant. Project title: “Collective decision making when communication is costly.” |
| 2013 – 2016 | Post-doc scholarship, Webster University Geneva |
| 2010 – 2013 | Ph.D. scholarship, University of Naples Federico II
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Peer-reviewed publications
- “Religion and Women: How Waldensians Reduced the Gender Gap” with A. Berlanda and P. Buonanno. Economics of Education Review, Volume 96, October 2023, 102451.
- Di Cagno, D., Güth, W., Puca, M. et al. Intention-based social influence in (non)strategic sharing experiments. Journal of the Economic Science Association(2023)
- "Earthquake hazard and civic capital," with P. Buonanno and G. Plevani. European Journal of Political Economy(2023): 102367.
- “The role of civic capital on vaccination,” with P. Buonanno and S. Galletta. Health Economics32, no. 5 (2023): 993-999.
- “Using newspapers obituaries to nowcast daily mortality: evidence from the Italian COVID-19 hot-spots”, with P. Buonanno. Health Policy 125 (2021) pp. 535-540.
- “Peer Effects in Crime” with E. Gavrilova-Zoutman, in ``A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime”, Edward Elgar Publishing, (2022), ISBN: 978-1-78990-932-6.
- “Estimating the severity of COVID-19: evidence from the Italian epicenter,” with P. Buonanno and S. Galletta. Plos One 15(10): e0239569 (2020).
Other publications
- “Le misure a supporto di lavoratori e imprese durante la pandemia di COVID-19 in Italia” (with C. Pignatti), International Labor Organization, Rome, 2022. ISBN: 978-92-2-036590-8.
Working papers
- “The Value of Consensus: An Experimental Analysis of Costly Deliberation,” with K. J. Saral and S. M. Sepe. CSEF working paper n. 680.
- “Health hazard discrimination or prejudice? A field experiment.” with P. Buonanno and F. Porta. SSRN working paper, https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4611597 (2023).
- “Sex in the City: Capitalizing Regulated Prostitution into Housing Prices,” (with F. De Rossa, G. Immordino, and R. Parchet), SSRN working paper, https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3857831 (2022).
- “Deliberative Institutions and Optimality” (with Jérôme Mathis and Simone M. Sepe), CSEF working paper n. 614, ISSN 2240-9696 (2021).
- “Corruption and Within-Country Stereotypes” (with Paolo Buonanno and Patrizia Sbriglia), SSRN working paper n. 3617590 (2020), https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3617590 (ISSN 1556-5068)
- “Ownership and Innovation: Evidence from Switzerland” (with Massimiliano Vatiero), SSRN working paper N. 2739880 (2017), https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2739880, ISSN 1556-5068.
Other professional activities
| 2024 - present | Associate Editor at Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Springer Nature, ISSN 2662-9992 |
| 2021 | Consultant for the International Labour Organization in Rome, Italy. |
| 2020 | Co-organizer of the 2020 University of Bergamo Winter Symposium. |
| 2019 | Co-organizer of University of Bergamo Economics department seminars |
| 2015 | Local co-organizer, 1st WINIR Symposium, Università della Svizzera italiana |
| 2011 | Belgium 4G’s auction consultant at Auction Technologies Inc. (joint with D. Salant) |
Conference and workshop presentations
| 2024 | 25th Italian Industrial Organization Society (SIEPI) Workshop, University of Bergamo; REFLEX – A Data Platform for the Swiss Commercial Registry meeting, Università della Svizzera italiana (invited speaker) |
| 2023 | 10th BEEN Experimental Economics Workshop – University of Trento |
| 2022 | Economic Science Association Global Meeting - MIT, Boston (accepted paper); CIMEO Workshop in Experimental Economics, University of Rome La Sapienza; Gender Discrimination: Cultural Origins and Lab Evidence Workshop, University of Bergamo |
| 2021 | Economic Science Association Around-the-Clock Global Meeting |
| 2020 | Second University of Bergamo Winter Symposium; Economic Science Association Around-the-Clock Global Meeting |
| 2019 | First University of Bergamo Winter Symposium; University of Bergamo Theory Symposium; Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Annual Meeting (invited) |
| 2018 | Empirical Legal Studies Workshop, University of Amsterdam; 12th IMPRS Uncertainty Topics Workshop, LUISS University |
| 2017 | American Law and Economics Association, Annual Meeting, Yale University |
| 2016 | Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics, 20th annual conference, Sciences Po, Paris; Universities of Siena-Toronto-Tel Aviv Annual Workshop on Law and Economics, University of Siena; 1st Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe, University of Amsterdam; Swiss Society for Economics and Statistics Annual Congress, Università della Svizzera italiana |
| 2015 | Economic Science Association European Meeting, University of Heidelberg; 1st WINIR Symposium, Università della Svizzera italiana |
| 2014 | Research Design for Causal Inference Workshop, Northwestern University |
Seminars (invited speaker)
Université Paris Dauphine, ETH Zurich, Northwestern University School of Law, University of Amsterdam, University of Lausanne, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Università della Svizzera italiana, LUISS University, Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse, University of Bergamo, University of Naples Federico II, University of Pisa, International Labour Organization.
Refereeing activity
The Economic Journal, International Economics, Health Economics, Scientific Reports, Tropical Medicine & International Health, PLOS One, BMC Infectious Diseases, Empirical Economics, Labour, Contemporary Economic Policy, International Review of Economics, Economia Politica, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal.
Teaching
| Undergraduate
| Behavioral Economics and Decision Making (University of Bergamo); Microeconomics (Catholic University of Sacred Heart), Decision-Making and Game Theory (Webster University Geneva), Macroeconomics; Quantitative Methods (Università della Svizzera italiana), International Political Economy (Webster University Geneva). |
| M.Sc.
| Law&Economics (Toulouse School of Economics, University of Naples Federico II) |
| MBA | Game Theory (Webster University Geneva). |
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| MLS | Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy (University of Arizona). |
| Ph.D. | STATA methods (University of Bergamo); GIS methods (University of Bergamo). |
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Miscellaneous
| Languages | Italian (native), English (fluent), French (working proficiency), Spanish (working proficiency) |
| IT skills | STATA, ArcGIS, Python, z-Tree, o-Tree. |
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Last updated: October 15, 2024
