Alessandro Innocenti

Biography

Alessandro Innocenti is professor of economic policy at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, coordinator of the Laboratory of Experimental Economics (LabSi) and of the Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior (LAVREB) , associate researcher at the Research Laboratory for Behavioral Finance (BeFinLab) and Director of the Interuniversity Center for Experimental Economics. He graduated in Political Sciences at the Ca 'Alfieri Faculty of the University of Florence and obtained a Ph.D. in History of Economic Doctrines at the University of Florence. His research activity begins in the history of game theory and experimental economics. After his doctoral thesis on the introduction of game theory in economics, he studied how the evolution of game theory has contributed to the affirmation of laboratory methods in economics. Gradually his research interests have extended to the experimental verifications of the models of economic decision. This activity led him to test in the laboratory the consistency of the concept of drift as balance refinement, the impact of gender differences on trust and reciprocity and the processes of gathering and processing information. He was also interested in the organization of local production systems and how to decentralize information in business networks. Recently he has devoted himself to the study of cognitive sciences and in particular of how they can contribute to the understanding and prediction of economic behavior. The first projects he is carrying out concern the role of cognitive distortions in information gathering processes and risk perception. He was Coordinator of the Research Group for the analysis of public expenditure for scientific and technological research, Technical Commission for Public Spending, Ministry of the Treasury (1998-1999), Local Coordinator of the PRIN Research Program 2002 "Mathematics in history of the economy " (2002-2004) and PRIN 2007 " Risk and ambiguity: new theories and applications to the analysis of markets and the design of institutions " (2008-2010), Scientific collaborator of the studyEffectiveness of IST-RTD Impacts on the EU Innovation System "funded by the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media Directorate General, Unit C3, Evaluation and Monitoring (2005-2007), Fulbright Research Scholar Grant at the Center for Cognitive Sciences, Rutgers University (2007-2008), Scientific Director of the project "Virtual Workplaces for the Detection of Organizational Wellbeing" (ALBO) funded by the Tuscany Region, PAR FAS Action Line 1.1.a.3 (2011-2013).

Research Interest

His research activity begins in the history of game theory and experimental economics.