Current research

My research interests span across household finance (portfolio choice, financial risk), behavioral economics (dishonesty, lifetime traumas), economic policy analysis (pension systems, auctions, waste management), and in general applied micro-econometrics.

Below I list the projects I am currently involved in; updated versions of the papers are available upon request.

I am also working with some PhD students. Please find HERE a list of my former and current PhD students and the topic of their dissertation.

1. David Boto-Garcìa and Alessandro Bucciol, "Peers' Performance Feedback"

2. David Boto-Garcìa, Alessandro Bucciol and Luca Zarri, "Managerial Beliefs and Firm Performance: Field Evidence from Professional Elite Soccer" [Working Paper]

3. Sarah Brown, Alessandro Bucciol, Alberto Montagnoli and Karl Taylor, "Financial Advice and Household Financial Portfolios" [Working Paper] (R&R)

4. Sarah Brown, Alessandro Bucciol, Alberto Montagnoli and Karl Taylor, "Portfolio Risk and Financial Advice"

5. Alessandro Bucciol, Chiara Coriele and Luca Zarri, "The Shared Non-cognitive Roots of Health and Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from the US" [Working Paper]

6. Alessandro Bucciol, Joshy Easaw and Serena Trucchi, "Household Income Expectations: The Roles of Shocks and Aggregate Conditions" [Working Paper]

7. Alessandro Bucciol and Federico Innocenti, "The Unintended Consequence of Taxing Digital Platforms: a Race to the Top?"

8. Alessandro Bucciol, Roberta Muri and Francesca Rossi, "Municipal Waste Policies and Spatial Effects: An Empirical Analysis on the Veneto Region of Italy"

9. Alessandro Bucciol, Desmond Opoku and Simone Quercia, "Text Message-Based Nudging Interventions for Household Waste Sorting: A Field Experiment"

10. Alessandro Bucciol, Luca Zarri and Jenny Wagner, "The Trauma Hypothesis: Does Personality Change after Negative Life Events?" [Working Paper]