Economics
marco.ottaviani@unibocconi.it
Via Roentgen 1, room C1-09- 5° floor
Tel.+39 02 5836 3385 Fax.+39 02 5836 3309
Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA. Thesis: Social Learning in Markets, 1996.
Laurea cum Laude in Economia Politica (Economics), Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, 1992.
Academic position and/or Professional activities
Full Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, 2011-
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2006-
Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2007-2012.
Professor of Economics, London Business School, 2006-2008.
Associate Professor of Economics, London Business School, 2001-2005.
Lecturer, Department of Economics, University College London, 1996-2001.
Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2000-2006.
Research Fellow, ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution, University College London, 1996-2005.
Research Interests
- Information Economics
- Organizational Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Financial Economics
Articoli
- Persuasion Bias in Science: Can Economics Help? (01/10/2017)
Alfredo Di Tillio, Marco Ottaviani, and Peter Norman Sorensen
Economic Journal, 127 (October), F266–F304.
- Price Reaction to Information with Heterogeneous Beliefs and Wealth Effects: Underreaction, Momentum, and Reversal (2015)
Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sorense
American Economic Review, 105 (1): 1-34, January 2015.
- Accept or Reject? An Organizational Perspective (01/05/2014)
Umberto Garfagnini, Marco Ottaviani, and Peter Norman Sørensen
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 34: 66-74, May 2014
- The Flip Side of Financial Synergies: Coinsurance versus Risk Contamination (2013)
Albert Banal Estanol, Marco Ottaviani and Andrew Winton
Review of Financial Studies, 26 (12): 3142-3181, December 2013.
- Sales Talk, Cancellation Terms, and the Role of Consumer Protection (2013)
Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani
Review of Economic Studies, 80 (3): 1002-1026, July 2013
- Regulating Financial Advice (2012)
Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani
European Business Organization Law Review 13: 237-246
- How (Not) to Pay for Advice: A Framework for Consumer Financial Protection (01/08/2012)
Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani
Journal of Financial Economics, 105(2): 393-411, August 2012
- Financial Advice (06/2012)
Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani
Journal of Economic Literature, 50(2): 494-512, June 2012
- Competition through Commissions and Kickbacks (04/2012)
Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani
American Economic Review, 102(2): 780-809, April 2012
- Consumer Protection in Markets with Advice (01/04/2010)
Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani
Competition Policy International, 6(1): 47-64, Spring 2010
- Ex Ante or Ex Post Competition Policy? A Progress Report (05/2011)
Marco Ottaviani and Abraham Wickelgren
International Journal of Industrial Organization 29 (2): 356-359, May 2011
- Noise, Information, and the Favorite-Longshot Bias in Parimutuel Predictions (02/2010)
Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sorensen
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2(1), 58-85, February 2010
- Surprised by the Parimutuel Odds? (12/2009)§
Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sorensen
American Economic Review, 99(5), 2129-2134
- Misselling through Agents (06/2009)
Roman Inderst and Marco Ottaviani
American Economic Review, 99(3), 883-908
- Information Sharing in Common Agency: When is Transparency Good? (03/2009)
Norbert Maier and Marco Ottaviani
Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(1), 162-187
- Monopoly Pricing in the Binary Herding Model (11/2008)
Subir Bose, Gerhard Orosel, Marco Ottaviani and Lise Vesterlund
Economic Theory, 37(2), 203-241
- The Promise of Prediction Markets (16/05/2008)
Kenneth J. Arrow, Robert Forsythe, Michael Gorham, Robert Hahn, Robin Hanson, John O. Ledyard, Saul Levmore, Robert Litan, Paul Milgrom, Forrest D.
Nelson, George R. Neumann, Marco Ottaviani, Thomas C. Schelling, Robert J. Shiller, Vernon L. Smith, E Science, 320(5878), 877-878
- Bank Mergers and Diversification: Implications for Competition Policy (06/2007)
Albert Banal-Estanol and Marco Ottaviani
European Financial Management, 13(3), 578-590
- Credulity, Lies, and Costly Talk (05/2007)
Navin Kartik, Marco Ottaviani and Francesco Squintani
Journal of Economic Theory, 134(1), 93-116
- Outcome Manipulation in Corporate Prediction Markets (04/2007)
Marco Ottaviani Peter Norman Sorensen
Journal of the European Economic Association (Papers and Proceedings), 5(2-3), 554-563
- Naive Audience and Communication Bias (12/2006)
Marco Ottaviani and Francesco Squintani
International Journal of Game Theory, 35(1), 129-150
- Dynamic Monopoly Pricing and Herding (2006)
Subir Bose, Gerhard Orosel, Marco Ottaviani and Lise Vesterlund
RAND Journal of Economics, 37(4), 912-928
- Mergers with Product Market Risk (2006)
Albert Banal-Estanol and Marco Ottaviani
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 15(3), 577-608
- The Strategy of Professional Forecasting (08/2006)
Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sorensen
Journal of Financial Economics, 81(2), 441-466
- Reputational Cheap Talk (2006)
Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sorensen
RAND Journal of Economics, 37(1) 155-175
- Professional Advice (01/2006)
Marco Ottaviani and Peter Norman Sorensen
Journal of Economic Theory, 126(1), 120-142
- The Transition to Digital Television (01/2005)
Jerome Adda and Marco Ottaviani
Economic Policy, 41, 160-209
- Price Competition for an Informed Buyer (12/2001)
Giuseppe Moscarini and Marco Ottaviani
Journal of Economic Theory, 101(2), 457-493
- The Value of Public Information in Monopoly (11/2001)
Marco Ottaviani and Andrea Prat
Econometrica, 69(6), 1673-1683
- Information Aggregation in Debate: Who Should Speak First? (09/2001)
Marco Ottaviani and Peter Sorensen
Journal of Public Economics, 81(3), 393-421
- Herd Behavior and Investment: Comment (06/2000)
Marco Ottaviani and Peter Sorensen
American Economic Review, 99(3), 695-704
- Social Learning in a Changing World (1998)
Giuseppe Moscarini, Marco Ottaviani and Lones Smith
Economic Theory, 11, 657-665