Massimo Egidi

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About Massimo Egidi

Massimo Egidi is an Italian economist. Egidi is a professor at LUISS "Guido Carli" in Rome where he has being serving as Rector from 2005 to 2016, after being Rector of the University of Trento from 1996 to 2004. His work focuses on topics such as behavioural economics, theory of organisation and organisational learning, within the frame of Herbert A. Simon "bounded rationality" approach. Among his last studies he has made experiments showing that many biases in organizational behaviors result from an imperfect and incomplete “representation” of the decision problems. 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 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 has been the representative of the conference of Italian rectors in the EUA, on issues of university governance, the relationship between industry and research, technology transfer, and research and innovation policies. Beyond his publications in Economics (75 papers, more than citations), he has been the author of publications in the field of Higher Education policies.