Marco Ottaviani

Marco Ottaviani is Full Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, where he teaches both at SDA Bocconi and at the PhD School. He served as Dean for Research from 2016 to 2018.

His research focuses on information and incentive problems at the intersection of organizational economics, industrial organization, regulation, and finance. More recently, he has studied the design of prediction markets, the aggregation of information within organizations, incentives and regulation of financial intermediaries, privacy and consumer protection, innovation financing through subsidy mechanisms, incentives to collect and disseminate empirical evidence, publication bias, clinical trials, and regulatory approval processes.

Marco graduated from Bocconi University in 1992 and earned his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. Before returning to Bocconi in 2011, he began his academic career at University College London, later becoming Professor of Economics at London Business School and Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.