Alessandro Castagnetti

About

I am an Economist currently completing a post-doc at LIUC University, while having achieved a PhD at the Economics Department of the University of Warwick. During my doctoral studies, I spent a term as a visiting scholar at the Center for Experimental Social Science (CESS) of the New York University. In particular, I am a behavioral and experimental economist. I use laboratory, online, and field experiments to understand: (1) the role of motivated reasoning and cognitive failures in belief formation, and (2) in doing so, I study whether there is a gender differential in these behaviors. My goal is to identify empirically the driving forces behind belief formation and ther role on economic behavior and strategic interactions.

Work

Universität Verona
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Post-Doc

Italy

University Carlo Cattaneo
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Post-Doc

Italy

Education

University of Warwick
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

PhD Economics

University of Warwick
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Master of Research

Tilburg University
Netherlands

Master of Science

University of Trento
Italy

Economia & Management

Publications

Attribuation Bias by Gender: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment

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University of Warwick

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working-paper

A Memory Walk Down Wall Street: How Personal Memories Influence Stock Investment and Information Processing

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LIUC University

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working-paper

The Ego is No Fool: Absence of Motivated Belief Formation in Strategic Interactions

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working-paper

Is the Fundamental Attribution Error Really “Fundamental”?

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Tilburg University

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working-paper

Student Demand For Relative Performance Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment

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working-paper

Demand for information by gender: An experimental study

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Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

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Will I tell you that you are smart (dumb)? Deceiving Others about their IQ or about a Random Draw

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

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journal-article

Protecting the ego: Motivated information selection and updating

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European Economic Review

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journal-article

Choking under pressure in archery

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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

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journal-article

Alessandro Castagnetti