Marco Catola

Assistant Professor in Economics at @Unipisa | Mainly Behavioural Economics & Industrial Organisation | Here Research, other useless stuff and Chess

[Veronica Pizziol @VPizziol]

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨

With @MarcoCatola, @SimoneDAlessa12 and @pietguar we just published our paper in the Journal of Public Economic Theory.

We studied social and personal norms in the multilevel public goods game.

👇Check it out here:👇
https://t.co/SsBezkbSnU

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

“It’s coming home!”🇮🇹

I am happy to share - belatedly as per usual - that after 3 fun years at @umsbe, in October I have joined @Unipisa as a Tenure-track assistant Professor of Economics.

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

Additionally:
✏️we test whether country groups adjusts its contribution when the efficiency of the PGs changes
✏️ we devise a questionnaire to assess the impact of a sense of identity and EU perceptions and to control for the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine

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[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

🚨 New publications out! 🚨

Together with @pietguar, @VPizziol, @ChiaraRapallini we just published a paper in the Journal of Comparative Economics

Check it out 👇

https://t.co/Sufh7XbcIl

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[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

In this paper we use the MLPGG to study attitudes towards national public budgets and a European public budget in six Member States of the European Union

✏️The main aim is to test to what extent propensities to contribute to public goods differ across countries

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[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

📢📢 New Publication
In this nice little paper, we look at the effect of a real effort task in the context of the MLPGG (our speciality at this point)

check it out Open Access
https://t.co/zqQJIcgSca

[Silvia Leoni @sil_via_leo]

Happy to have visited again Brno 🇨🇿 with @MarcoCatola. Thanks to @MatteoMMarini1 for the invitation and @MasarykUni @veda_econmuni for having us!

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

📌The model is too optimistic in predicting the weakness of the lobby in sustaining a market where no firms abate their emissions
📌The model is too pessimistic in predicting the strength of the lobby in preventing a market where all firms decide to abate their emissions

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

🚨 New Paper alert!
My paper coauthored with @sil_via_leo has just been published #OpenAccess in Computational Economics!

#EconTwitter #Economics

Check it out here 👇
https://t.co/q0NldOPg0w

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

In this paper, we combine Game Theory and Agent-Based Modelling by using ABM to test the robustness of theoretical predictions:
📌We devise an ABM version of the menu auction Lobbying games
📌We find that the theoretical predictions are overall robust
However:

[Automatizzato Comunismo Memetico @acmemetico]

I liberali sono un pendolo che oscilla tra la mercificazione dei servizi pubblici e la colpevolizzazione dei poveri

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

📌Total contribution remains unchanged ➡ NO Marginal crowding-in effect
📌Subjects who play the multilevel #PublicGoodsGame contribute more than subjects that play a standard #PublicGoodsGame ➡ Categorical crowding-in effect

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

📢🚨 Paper alert!🚨📢
Our paper on the multilevel #PublicGoodGame is finally out in the Journal of Economic Psychology!

Check it out here 👇
https://t.co/s77355maxe

Here is a short summary 🧵

@pietguar @SimoneDAlessa12 @VPizziol
#EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

📌 Contribution to the global public good increases when relative efficiency increases ➡ Levelling-up effect
📌At the same time, contribution to the local good decreases ➡ Substitution effect
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[Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca @IMTLucca]

Fino a che punto siamo #altruisti? Uno studio della #ScuolaIMT studia le condizioni che favoriscono o limitano l'#altruismo.

Leggi il nostro articolo su #OpenIMT https://t.co/HZCRm9LuM6
Tag: @MarcoCatola @pietguar @SimoneDAlessa12 @Unipisa

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

I enjoyed presenting our paper today at @veda_econmuni. Several interesting questions and a friendly environment. Thanks to all participants and thanks to @MatteoMMarini1 for the invitation

[Věda a výzkum na ECON MUNI @veda_econmuni]

📢 #MUES research seminar

Marco Catola from @MaastrichtU will be speaking tomorrow at 2 pm. Don’t miss out!

Read more about the lecture here ⏩ https://t.co/u5IjDPs92j

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

Dal Vangelo secondo Barbero

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

@maxdantoni E dopo aver deciso di correre da soli, cosa da non sottovalutare. Avessero corso in coalizione (o cmq con un accordo) con il PD non è detto che sarebbe stato lo stesso

[Marco Catola @MarcoCatola]

@kekkoze @LeFrecce @fsitaliane È la strategia delle cattive notizie: annunciare il ritardo serve solo ad intristire i passeggeri. Quindi perché farlo? In bocca al lupo per il viaggio!