Massimo Egidi
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| Born |
January 12, 1942 Turin |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Institution | Luiss University, Rome, Italy |
| Field | Behavioral economics, Experimental economics, Game theory, Education, University governance |
| Alma mater | University of Turin, Italy |
| Influences | S.Rizzello, M.C. Becker |
| Influenced | Herbert Simon, James March, Robin Marris, M.D.Cohen |
| Contributions | Routines and biases in organizational behavior, problem solving |
Massimo Egidi (December 1, 1942) is an Italian economist. He is Professor of Economics at LUISS "Guido Carli" in Rome and former rector of the University. With Axel Leijonhuvfud is co-director of CELL, the Laboratory of Computable and Experimental Economics (University of Trento). His main research interests are related to the study of boundedly rational behaviors in organizations and institutions.
He is a professor at LUISS "Guido Carli" in Rome where he served as rector from 2006 until 2016, after being rector of the University of Trento from 1996 to 2004.
His academic career started at Polytechnic of Turin, continuing at the Faculty of Political Sciences (1965–86), at University of Trento (from 1987 to 2001) and, eventually, at Rome based LUISS Guido Carli (2005 to date).
In addition to his current academic position, he is also Chairman of the Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento
He was visiting fellow at the Washington University of St. Louis (1975), visiting professor at the Center for Research on Management at the Graduate Business School, University of California, Berkeley (1993); visiting scholar at the IIASA, Laxenburg – Austria (1994), at Stanford University (2003), and at the Santa Fe Institute (USA) and, more recently, at the Ecole Politecnique, the Ecole Normale Superieure, and the Collège de France, Paris, France
He is co-chairman with Jean Paul Fitoussi of the Herbert Simon Society and is founder and director, with Axel Leijonhufvud, of the Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Economics (CEEL, Trento).
He is also a member of some scientific and academic committees, including the Scientific Committee of ESNIE – European School on New Institutional Economics, the Université de Paris X, of the Doctorate in Economics at Sciences Po (Paris). He is associate editor of a number of Italian and foreign journals, including Industrial and Corporate Change, and Mind and Society. He was responsible for the National Research Programme in the sector of Economics and Social Sciences 2009-13. He is a member by right of the Scientific Committee of Confindustria.
He participated in the activities of the European University Association(EUA), which performs a leader role in the creation of a European space for research and training. He was the representative of the conference of Italian rectors in the EUA, authorized to speak on issues of university governance, the relationship between industry and research, technology transfer, and research and innovation policies.
Following his participation in European debate on the reform of university system ("Bologna process"), he has been the author of publications in the field of Higher Education policies.
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