I am a Professor of Economics at New York University. I am an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. I am also fellow of the NBER, CESS at NYU, and the CEPR. I co-organize of the annual NBER Meeting on Culture and Institutions. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, obtained in 1994. My main academic contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics. I have published widely in economics journals. I co-edited the Handbook of Social Economics and the Handbook of Historical Economics. Finally, I am founding editor of noiseFromAmerika.org and contributed op-eds for the Italian newspapers La Stampa and La Repubblica.