Salvatore Nunnari

Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University

Research Fellow at CEPR and CESifo

Advisory Editor at Games and Economic Behavior and Editorial Board Member at Political Science Research and Methods

I earned a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology in 2012 and previously held faculty positions at UC San Diego and Columbia University. At Bocconi, I direct the Bocconi Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences and the B.Sc. in Economics. My research spans political economy, behavioral economics, experimental economics, and microeconomic theory. It has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association, Management Science, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. Between 2020 and 2025, I was the Principal Investigator of a European Research Council grant on the “Behavioral Foundations of Populism and Polarization”.