Valeria MAGGIAN

Position
Associate Professor
Roles
Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Economics and Business
Telephone
041 234 9150
E-mail
valeria.maggian@unive.it
Academic discipline
Public Economics [ECON-03/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/valeria.maggian(personal record)
Office
Department of Economics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.economics
Where: San Giobbe

Office hours

Office hours

Room 119, first flooor, A building, Department of Economics in San Giobbe. From September 2026, office hours are scheduled on Monday from 10:00 to 12:00. In order to book a slot (in presence), please send an e-mail to valeria.maggian@unive.it before 12:00 on Friday.

Thesis supervision

Undergraduate and graduate dissertations can focus on positive and negative externalities, public goods, gender inequality in education, in the job environment, and in the socio-economic area overall, experimental and behavioral economics (as, for example, the development of social and moral norms, non-standard preferences as altruism, equity, etc.). I expect students to develop their own ideas, and I suggest them to use google scholar for inspiraton.

Teaching activity current year

ECONOMIA [R304]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)

ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE ARTI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [EMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS [ETR9]
Laurea

Teaching activity previous years

ECONOMIA E GESTIONE DELLE ARTI E DELLE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI [EMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO [ET4]
Laurea

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS [ETR9]
Laurea

ECONOMIA [R304]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Scienza delle finanze [ECON-03/A]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
ECONOMIA POLITICA [SECS-P/01]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale, America Latina, Russia e aree caucasiche
Known languages
Italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Tedesco (scritto: base parlato: base)
Participation as referees of national and international research projects
Czech Science Foundation
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Economia Linea: Sistema economico - modelli e metodi
Differenze di genere nel mercato del lavoro e accademico
Description:
Gender differences in the working and academic environment
Keywords:
Microeconomics, Labour market studies, Economic theory
ATECO code:
[72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
Disonestà nelle organizzazioni e il ruolo delle Istituzioni
Description:
Dishonesty within organizations, the role of Institutions
Keywords:
Microeconomics, Political economy, Labour economics
ATECO code:
[72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
Evasione fiscale e politiche di dissuasione
Description:
Tax evasion and detterence mechanisms
Keywords:
Microeconomics, Economic theory
ATECO code:
[72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
An experimental approach to narratives
SSD:
SECS-P/01
Other members of the research group:
Luca CORAZZINI
Marco DIAMANTE
Dishonesty and institutions
SSD:
SECS-P/03
Gender gap and affirmative actions
SSD:
SECS-P/01
Gender gap in the Italian Math Olympiad
SSD:
SECS-P/03
Inequality and redistribution
SSD:
SECS-P/03
Other members of the research group:
Michele BERNASCONI
Tax evasion and whistleblowing
SSD:
SECS-P/03
Other members of the research group:
Luca CORAZZINI
Voting and electoral fraud
SSD:
SECS-P/03
AGEENDA Advancing Gender Equality through Experiments: New Developments and Applications
Funding body:
Cà Foscari University
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2018 Length in months: 24
Gender gap and the Math Olympics
Funding body:
EIEF - Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 12

Publication highlights

Fabio Galeotti; Valeria Maggian; Marie Claire Villeval Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty in ECONOMIC JOURNAL, vol. 131, pp. 2508-2528 (ISSN 0013-0133)
DOI - URL correlato 2021, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3720613


Valeria Maggian; Natalia Montinari; Antonio Nicolò; Do quotas help women to climb the career ladder? A laboratory experiment in EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, vol. 123 (ISSN 0014-2921)
DOI - URL correlato 2020, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3707384


Vardan Baghdasaryan, Giovanna Iannantuoni, Valeria Maggian Electoral fraud and voter turnout: An experimental study in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, vol. 58, pp. 203-219 (ISSN 0176-2680)
DOI - URL correlato 2019, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3708317


Valeria, Maggian; Natalia Montinari; Antonio, Nicolo` Backscratching in Hierarchical Organizations in THE JOURNAL OF LAW ECONOMICS & ORGANIZATION, vol. 34, pp. 133-161 (ISSN 8756-6222)
DOI - URL correlato 2018, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3696173


Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire Social preferences and lying aversion in children in EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS, vol. 19, pp. 663-685 (ISSN 1386-4157)
DOI - URL correlato 2016, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3695854


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Personal data
Born, July 31, 1985 in Vicenza, Italy; one daughter (born in 2017)

Current position
From december 2020: Associate Professor, Cà Foscari University, Department of Economics

National Abilitation Full professor in Public Economics (11.12.23 - 11.12.34) and National Abilitation Associate professor in Public Economics (13.07.20 – 13.07.31).

Previous position

  • December 2017 – December 2020:Tenure-Track Researcher (RtD - B), Cà Foscari University, Department of Economics.
  • January 2016 – December 2017: Post-doc researcher, GATE (Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St Etienne), CNRS - University of Lyon. Supervisor : Prof. Marie Claire Villeval.
  • December 2013 – December 2015: Post-doc researcher, University of Milano Bicocca. Supervisor: Prof. Giovanna Iannantuoni.

Education

  • January 2010 – September 2013: PhD in Economics, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Nicolò.
  • October 2007 – October 2009: Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Università degli Studi di Padova. 110/110 Summa cum laude. Advisor: Prof. Antonio Nicolò.

Further Education

  • October 2011- June 2012 & January 2011 - June 2011: Visiting Ph.D student, Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St Etienne (GATE),  France. Advisor : Prof. Marie Claire Villeval.
  • June 26th - July 8th2011: Summer School on “Evolution of social preferences”, Computable and Experimental Economics Laboratoy (CEEL), University of Trento, Italy.

Associate member of CERME, CRIEP, GateLab, ESA, NeuroMi.

Member of the organizing committee of the "Experimental and Behavioral Economics Workshop"  (Ca' Foscari University, co-organized with Matthias Sutter (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), November, 23rd - November,  24th, 2023); 9th meeting of the Behavioral and Experimental Economics Network (BEEN)  (Ca' Foscari University, January, 27th, 2023); "VERA Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics” (Ca' Foscari University, June, 23rd - June, 24th, 2022); “2015 Political Economy Summer School” (Alba di Canazei, Trento, June 29th - July 3rd 2015) & of the “2014 Political Economy Workshop” (Catholic University, Milano, 12-13 May 2014).

Referee for: Annals of Economics and Statistics, the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, the Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Experimental Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, Games, Italian Economic Journal, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Public Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Management Science, the Journal of the Economic Science Association, PLOS One, Poverty and Public Policy, Scientific Reports, The Czech Science Foundation (GACR).

I love trail running (my favorite race is Trans D'Havet), climbing, and trekking. 

For an updated and detailed version of my cv please look here.