Nicola Persico is currently the John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He is also the Director of the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management.Persico has received a number of honors and fellowships, including several National Science Foundation Grants, and he was an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow from 2002-2004. In 2007 he received the Carlo Alberto Medal, awarded to a young Italian economist (resident in Italy or abroad) under the age of 40 for his/her outstanding research contributions to the field of Economics. His work has been published in top journals in economics and law. Nicola Persico received a bachelor's degree in economics from Bocconi University and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University in 1996. He taught at University of California Los Angeles, University of Pennysilvania and New York University.
Paola Sapienza è Professore di Consumer Finance della cattedra Donald C. Clark / HSBC presso la Kellogg School of Management. E’ Fellow del Zell Center for Risk Research, affiliata di ricerca del Center for Economic Policy Research e ricercatrice della presso il National Bureau of Economic Research's program on corporate finance and political economy. Le sue aree di competenza sono banking and financial institutions, behavioral economics, behavioral finance, corporate finance, emerging markets and regulation of financial markets, private equity e venture capital. Paola Sapienza ha scritto articoli su banking, social capital, trust and financial development. I suoi articoli sono stati pubblicati sulle migliori riviste specialistiche di economia e finanza. Prima di Kellogg, Paola Sapienza ha lavorato come economista nel dipartimento di ricerca di Banca d'Italia. Ha conseguito la laurea in economia presso l'Università Bocconi, e un MA e un PhD in Economia presso l'Università di Harvard. La Professoressa Sapienza è consigliere indipendente di Assicurazioni Generali SpA da April 2010.
Cristina Bicchieri is the S.J.P. Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the Philosophy and Psychology Departments at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program and the Behavioral Ethics Lab (BeLab).
She is also a Professor in the Legal Studies department of the Wharton School. She has worked on problems in social epistemology, rational choice and game theory. More recently, her work has focused on the nature and evolution of social norms, and the design of behavioral experiments to test under which conditions norms will be followed. She published several books and more than 100 articles in top journals.
Bicchieri received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Milan and her PhD in Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University in 1984. She was a Harvard Ford fellow in 1980-82. She has been a fellow of Nuffield College (Oxford), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and the Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Making, University of Jerusalem.
Bicchieri has served as a consultant to UNICEF since 2008, and she advises various NGOs and other international organizations and governments on social norms and how to combat harmful social practices. She founded the Penn Social Norms Training and Consulting group in 2004.
Paolo Siconolfi is currently the Franklin Pitcher Johnson Jr. Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School where he teaches the core course Managerial Economics.
Siconolfi has received a number of honors and fellowships, including several awards for teaching excellence at Columbia Business School from the Dean and the Association of Graduate students.
His research deals with general equilibrium theory, information theory and dynamic models in monetary theory.
His work has been published in top journals in economics. Siconolfi received a bachelor's degree in economics from Università Sapienza di Roma and a Phd in economics from the University of Pennysilvania. Before joining Columbia Business School, he taught at Rutgers, Yale and Sorbonne University.
