NICOLA PERSICO

persico_medal.jpgPhD in Economics, Northwestern University

Professor of Economics & Professor of Law and Society
New York University

Honorary Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Winner of the 2007 Carlo Alberto Medal


FIELDS: Political Economy, Information Economics, Economics of Discrimination

Personal Web Page: http://nicolapersico.com/


Short Bio

Born in Palermo in 1967, Nicola Persico holds a Laurea degree in Economics from Universita' Bocconi (supervisor: Luigi Montrucchio), and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University in the United States. After one year as an assistant professor at UCLA, since 1997 he has worked at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, and he is a Selected Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

He has received a number of honors and fellowships, including four National Science Foundation Research Grants, and an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship for 2002-2004.