Massimo Egidi
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Massimo Egidi | |
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| Born | 1 December 1942[citation needed] Turin, Italy |
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| Alma mater | University of Turin, Italy |
| Influences | S.Rizzello, M.C. Becker |
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| Discipline | Behavioral economics, Experimental economics, Game theory, Education, University governance |
| Institutions | Luiss University, Rome, Italy |
| Notable ideas | Routines and biases in organizational behavior, problem solving |
Massimo Egidi (born 1 December 1942)[citation needed] is an Italian economist. He is Professor of Economics at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome and former rector of the university. With the late Axel Leijonhufvud, he was co-director of CELL, the Laboratory of Computable and Experimental Economics at the University of Trento. His main research interests are related to the study of boundedly rational behaviors in organizations and institutions.
Born in Turin,[1] Egidi is a professor at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome, where he served as rector from 2006 until 2016,[2] after being rector of the University of Trento from 1996 to 2004. His academic career started at the Polytechnic of Turin, continuing at the Faculty of Political Sciences (1965–1986) at the University of Trento (1987–2001), and then at Rome-based Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (since 2005). In addition to his academic position, he was also chairman of the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento until 2014[3]
Egidi was visiting fellow at the Washington University in St. Louis (1975), visiting professor at the Center for Research on Management at the Graduate Business School of the University of California, Berkeley (1993), and visiting scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (1994), at Stanford University (2003), at the Santa Fe Institute, and at the École Politecnique, the École Normale Supérieure, and the Collège de France in Paris. He is co-chairman with Jean Paul Fitoussi of the Herbert Simon Society and is founder and director, with Axel Leijonhufvud, of the Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Economics (CEEL, Trento).[4]
Egidi is a member of various scientific and academic committees, including the Scientific Committee of ESNIE – European School on New Institutional Economics, the Université de Paris X, and of the Doctorate in Economics at Sciences Po (Paris). He is associate editor of a number of Italian and foreign journals, including Industrial and Corporate Change and Mind and Society. He was responsible for the National Research Programme in the sector of Economics and Social Sciences 2009–2013. He is a member by right of the Scientific Committee of Confindustria.[5]
Egidi participated in the activities of the European University Association (EUA), which performs a leader role in the creation of a European space for research and training. He was the representative of the conference of Italian rectors in the EUA,[6] authorized to speak on issues of university governance, the relationship between industry and research, technology transfer, and research and innovation policies. Following his participation in European debate on the reform of university system ("Bologna process"), he was the author of publications in the field of Higher Education policies. He is also a member of the UFI – Université Franco-Italienne,[7] and was a founding member of the AIT – Ateneo Italo Tedesco,[8] holding the chairmanship until 2012.
Work
His work focuses on topics such as behavioural economics, theory of organisation and organisational learning, and theory of decisions, under the umbrella of the scientific approach developed by Herbert A. Simon (Nobel Prize 1980) from the 1950s onwards, which today is summarized as the bounded rationality approach.[9] He serves as rector at LUISS University in Rome.[10] A parallel line is represented by the collaboration with Reinhard Selten (Nobel Prize 1994), again on the themes of bounded rationality, and by studies on Behavioural economics carried out in the last decade.
