Luca Rigotti

RUD 2009 was at Duke!

Curriculum Vitae

Papers
Optimism and Firm Formation. With Matthew Ryan and Rhema Vaithianathan. Economic Theory, forthcoming.
Subjective Beliefs and Ex-Ante Trade, Econometrica, Vol. 76, No. 5 (September, 2008), 1167–1190. With Chris Shannon.and Tomasz Strzalecki.
Individual Behavior and group Membership, American Economic Review, Vol 59 (4) 1340-1352. With Gary Charness & Aldo Rustichini.
Your Morals Might Be Your Moods: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, February 2006, Volume 59, Issue 2, pp. 155-172. With Georg Kirchsteiger & Aldo Rustichini.
Uncertainty and Risk in Financial Markets: Econometrica, January 2005, Volume 73 Issue 1 pp. 203-243. With Chris Shannon. This version includes all proofs.
Uncertainty in Mechanism Design. With Pino Lopomo and Chris Shannon.
Sharing Risk and Ambiguity. With Chris Shannon. Revise and resubmit at Journal Economic Theory.
Tolerance of Ambiguity and Entrepreneurial Innovation. With Matthew Ryan and Rhema Vaithianathan.
Optimism and Firm Formation. With Matthew Ryan and Rhema Vaithianathan. Economic Theory, forthcoming.
Knightian Uncertainty and Moral Hazard. With Pino Lopomo and Chris Shannon.
The sports league's dilemma: competitive balance vs incentives to win. With Frederic Palomino. CentER D.P. 2000-109 and UC Berkeley Economics Department WP E00-292.
Skills, Strategy, and Passion: an Empirical Analysis of Soccer. April 2000. With Frederic Palomino & Aldo Rustichini. An article on this paper appeared on The Economist of April 3, 1999 (pp. 68-69), under the title The Invisible Foot.
Decisive Entrepreneurs and Cautious Investors.
Uncertainty, Entrepreneurship and Wage Contracting. With Matthew Ryan.
Financial Contracts with Knightian Investors.


How to reach me:
 
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Box 90120
Durham, NC 27708
USA
Phone:+1 (919) 660-7780
Fax:+1 (919) 681-6246
e-mail: rigotti@duke.edu


Career Info

Positions
2007 - Associate Professor of Decision Sciences, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
2002 - 2006 Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
2000 - 2001 and Spring 2002 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley.
1997 - 2002  Assistant Professor of Economics, CentER, Tilburg University.

Ph.D. in Economics. May 1997 Yale University.
Dissertation Title: Applications of Knightian Uncertainty.
Advisors: Truman Bewley, and Ben Polak.
Fields
Microeconomics: Knightian uncertainty, behavioral economics contract theory, and game theory.




 
 

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