PANCOTTO Francesca

Francesca Pancotto is Associate Professor of Economics (SECS-P/02) at the Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where she obtained the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for Full Professor in 2021. She holds a PhD in Economics from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa (2008), and a Laurea in Economics (summa cum laude) from Università Bocconi, Milan. She previously held postdoctoral positions at the University of Bologna (within an ERC Starting Grant), HEC Liège (Belgium), and Centro Europa Ricerche, Rome.

Her research lies at the intersection of behavioral and experimental economics and quantitative finance modeling, focusing on cooperation, corruption and exit mechanisms, social capital and prosocial behavior, investigated through laboratory and lab-in-the-field experiments, including in post-emergency settings. She is the founder and director of ReBEL (Reggio Emilia Behavioral and Experimental Laboratory, since 2015) and a member of the steering committee of CIES (Interdepartmental Centre for Experimental Economics, Florence-Pisa-Lucca-Naples Parthenope network).

Her research has been published in journals including Economic Journal, Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Theory and Decision, Ecological Economics, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. She has been a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) and Norrköping University (Sweden), and serves as a referee for journals including American Economic Review and Experimental Economics. She has coordinated and participated in funded research projects (PRIN, University FAR grants) and received awards for research on big data and social capital (D4R Challenge 2019, Big Data Challenge 2015).