Adjunct Professor, Economics
Phd in Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
Email: fpavesi@fus.edu
Filippo Pavesi is an Associate Professor of Economics at LIUC University (Libera Università Carlo Cattaneo di Castellanza) and Visiting Research Associate at the School of Business of Stevens Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan. His areas of expertise include industrial organization, the economics of information, behavioral economics, political economics, social networks, experimental economics, and financial economics. He was a visiting scholar at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) and New York University (NYU), and a visiting professor at the Department of Public Policy at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Scientific Reports, European Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. His professional experience includes strategic consulting for Ernst & Young and strategic planning for the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. He also currently acts as an economic consultant for antitrust cases in Italy.
Current Projects:
- Investigating the impact of human – AI interaction on creative performance and the gender gap in competitive creative markets
- Narratives, Culture and Pro-environmental behavior
- The evolution of expert markets in the digital era
Publications
"Influential Listeners: An Experiment on Persuasion Bias in Social Networks", (2012), with Luca Corazzini, Beatrice Petrovich, Luca Stanca, European Economic Review, Volume 56, Issue 6, pp. 1276-1288.
"Experts, Conflicts of Interest, and Reputation for Ability" (2014), with Massimo Scotti, International Journal of Economic Theory, 10: pp. 219–233.
"Electoral Contributions and the Cost of Unpopularity" (2017), with Thomas Bassetti, Economic Inquiry, 55, pp. 1771-1791.
"Investigating Open Innovation Adoption within the Food Industry", (2019) with Barbara Bigliardi and Francesco Galati, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, pp. 229 - 245.
"Does trust in the government matter for whistleblowing on tax evaders? Survey and experimental evidence" (2020) with Armenak Antinyan and Luca Corazzini, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 171, pp. 75-95.
"Trust in the Health System and COVID-19 Treatment" (2021), with Armenak Antinyan, Thomas Bassetti, and Luca Corazzini, Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12.
“Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap” (2021), with Antinyan, Armenak, Thomas Bassetti, and Luca Corazzini, Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12: 675684.
“Good Lies”, (2022) with Massimo Scotti, European Economic Review, 141, 103965.
"Virtual Water and the Inequality in the Water Content of Consumption", (2022) with Mohamad Afkhami, Thomas Bassetti, and Hamed Ghoddusi, Environment and Development Economics, 25(7) pp. 470-490. Online Appendix
"Watch Your Words: An Experimental Study on Communication and the Opportunity Cost of Delegation", (2023) with Armenak Antinyan, Luca Corazzini, and Elena D'Agostino, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 214, pp. 216-232.
"The Green Solow Model and the Threshold Effect of Human Capital on CO2 Emissions", (2024) with Thomas Bassetti and Massimo Scotti, Metroeconomica, 75(2), pp. 249–279.
"Information and Expertise" (2024) with Nicola Argelli and Massimo Scotti in Raban, Daphne R., and Julia Włodarczyk, eds. The Elgar Companion to Information Economics, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
"Narratives and Opinion Polarization: A Survey Experiment" (2024) with Armenak Antinyan, Thomas Bassetti, and Luca Corazzini 14, 19732, Scientific Reports.
"Environmental Concern: A Culture of Trust" (2025) with Thomas Bassetti and Massimo Scotti, Rivista Italiana di Economia Demografia e Statistica, Vol LXXIX n.2.