Pietro Battiston
Co-Director
Pietro Battiston is an assistant Professor of Economics at University of Pisa, Italy. His main research interests are experimental economics,
economic networks analysis and tax compliance. Previously, Pietro was a researcher at University of Milan Bicocca, where he obtained his PhD in
Economics in 2014, and at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa). His research has been published on the Scandinavian Journal of
Economics and on the Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organisation, among others. Pietro is also a passionate Python programmer, an Open Source enthusiast, and a former core developer of pandas, the reference Python library for data manipulation. See https://pietrobattiston.it for more info.
Lorán Chollete
Co-Director
Lorán Chollete is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Jack Welch College of Business and Technology. Previously, he taught at University of St Andrews in the UK, and before that at the University of Stavanger Business School in Norway. Chollete’s research concentrates on financial markets, decisionmaking under uncertainty and CEO compensation. He also has an interest in Latin American Economics. His research is funded by several grants from the Research Council of Norway. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Financial Markets. For further details, see www.loranchollete.com
Jeffrey Guo
Research Assistant
Jeffrey Guo is a PhD student in the Columbia Economics department. His research interests lie at the intersection of behavioural economics and political economy; broadly speaking, he is interested in how human behaviour may differ from what is ostensibly rational, and how those deviations may materialise in political systems. Guo received his BA in Economics from Yale in 2016.
Sharon Harrison
Co-Director
Sharon Harrison is a Professor of Economics at Barnard College. Her early research focused on general equilibrium models of the business cycle in which the equilibrium is indeterminate, and fluctuations are driven by sunspot shocks. That is, shocks that are extrinsic to the economy. These are most easily thought of as self-fulfilling expectations on the parts of agents. More recently, she has begun to think about the behavioural aspects of these self-fulfilling expectations, seeking evidence for them by carrying out experiments in the lab. Experimental work is now another main focus of her research, including experiments about the unintended consequences of policies. Learn more at https://barnard.edu/profiles/sharon-harrison.
Simona Gamba
Affiliated Faculty
Simona Gamba is Assistant Professor at the University of Milan, Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods. She obtained her Ph.D. in Public Economics from DEFAP (Graduate School in Public Economics), Catholic University of Milan, and she holds a master in Economics of International Development from Sciences Po, Paris. She previously worked as a researcher at IMT (Institute for Advances Studies of Lucca), FBK-IRVAPP (Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies), the University of Verona, and the Catholic University of Milan. Her research interests are mainly in the field of health economics and economics of innovation, in particular with reference to the impact of regulation, such as global and cross-national politics of Intellectual Property Rights, on innovation and accessibility in healthcare. She has experience in the analysis of microeconomic data, impact evaluation and experimental economics. The main results of her research activity have been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Health Economics, Health Policy, World Development and the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. See https://sites.google.com/site/gambasimona/ for more info.
Suhani Sharma
Research Assistant
Suhani Sharma is a junior at Barnard College, studying Economics and Political Science. Her academic interests lie where behavioural economics meets global public policy and corporate leadership, specifically within the ESG field. Passionate about engaged sustainability initiatives and community-building, the primary aim of her work is to create efficient systems which can alleviate roadblocks to effective policy. When not being a research assistant, Suhani enjoys divulging in watching Formula One or soccer and working with Democratic womxn candidates on their campaigns across the Empire State.
Former Lab Members
Jillian Harrison (Research Assistant)
Phee Nimitsurachat (Research Assistant)
Anel Abdykarimova (Research Assistant)
Tsahi Halyo (Research Assistant)
