Roy-ADRES Seminar - Nov 25th, 2024

*This seminar takes place at PSE (Jourdan Campus) in Room R1-09*

Marco Ottaviani is Full Professor of Economics at Bocconi University where he was also the Dean for Research between 2016 and 2018. He is the Curriculum Coordinator of Bocconi's PhD Programme in Economics. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Prior to joining Bocconi he held a number of international faculty appointments at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, at the London Business School (LBS), and at University College London (UCL).

His research focuses on information and incentive problems at the crossroad of organizational economics, industrial organization, regulation and finance. Recently, he has been working on the design of prediction markets, information aggregation in organizations, incentives and regulation of information intermediaries, consumer protection and privacy, financing of innovation and grant making, incentives for collecting and reporting empirical evidence, publication bias, clinical trials and the design of approval regulation. In 2023 he was awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for his five-year project Information Economics for Science - InfoEcoScience, and a Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) as Co-Investigator of the project Designing and Evaluating Research Funding (DERV).

Marco Ottaviani's website

He will present a paper, joint with Nenad Kos, at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the topic:

Self-Selection, Evaluation and Optimal Ordeals

The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Paul HEIDHUES (DICE) on December 2nd.