Paolo Pin

Department of Economics and Statistics 

Università di Siena

Publications​

​Papers

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• Spreading of an infectious disease between different locations (2021) with Alessio Muscillo and Tiziano Razzolini,  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 183, 508-532;
  
• Link value, market scenario and referral networks (2021) with Yongli Li and Peng Luo,  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 181, 135-155;
  
• Externalities Aggregation in Network Games (2020), with Francesco Feri, International Economic Review 61 (4), 1635-1658;
• Covid19: unless one gets everyone to act, policies may be ineffective or even backfire (2020) with Alessio Muscillo and Tiziano Razzolini, PLOS ONE 15 (9): e0237057; 
• Bring a friend! Privately or Publicly? (2020), with Elias Carroni and Simone Righi, Management Science 66 (5), 2269-2290;
  
• Utility-Based Model for Exploring and Understanding the Evolution of Social Media Networks (2020), with Yongli Li and Peng Luo, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 50 (3), 1083-1094;
  
• Credibility of climate change denial in social media (2019), with Abhishek Samantray, Palgrave Communications 5, article number 127;
  
• Altruism and the Pressure to Share: Laboratory Evidence from Tanzania (2019) with Salvatore Di Falco, Peter Martinsson and Razack Lokina, PLOS ONE 14(5): e0212747;
  
• Network-based Risk Measurements for Interbank Systems (2018), with Yongli Li and Guanghe Liu, PLOS ONE 13(7): e0200209;
  
• The Stochastic Stability of Decentralized Matching on a Graph (2018), with Leonardo Boncinelli, Games and Economic Behavior 108, 239-244;
• Ties that Bind: Network Redistributive Pressure and Economic Decisions in Village Economies (2018), with Salvatore Di Falco, Francesco Feri and Xavier Vollenweider, Journal of Development Economics 123, 123-131;
• Contagious disruptions and complexity traps in economic development (2017), with Matthew Bonds, Charles Brummitt, Kenan Huremovic and Fernando Vega Redondo, Nature Human Behaviour 1, 665-672;
  
• Constrained Mobility and the Evolution of Efficient Outcomes (2017), with Elke Weidenholzer and Simon Weidenholzer, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 82, 165-175; 
  
• Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parents Bias and Peer Effects (2016), with Fabio Landini, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 129, 56-73;
• Paying Positive to Go Negative: Advertisers' Competition and Media Reports (2016), with Andrea Blasco and Francesco Sobbrio, European Economic Review 83, 243-261;
• Cooperation, Punishment and Immigration (2015) with Brian Rogers, Journal of Economic Theory 160, 72-101;
• A network centrality method for the rating problem (2015), with Yongli Li and Chong Wu, PLOS ONE 10(4): e0120247;
• Communities and Social Inefficiency with Heterogeneous Groups (2014), with Alberto Dalmazzo and Diego Scalise, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 48, 410-427;
• Is there psychological pressure in competitive environments? (2013) with Francesco Feri and Alessandro Innocenti, Journal of Economic Psychology 39, 249-256;
• The Informational Divide (2013), with Manfred Nermuth, Giacomo Pasini and Simon Weidenholzer, Games and Economic Behavior 78, 21-30;
• Homophily and Long-Run Integration in Social Networks (2012), with Yann Bramoullé, Sergio Currarini, Matthew Jackson and Brian Rogers, Journal of Economic Theory 147 (5), 1754-1786;
• Excess Covariance and Dynamic Instability in a Multi-Asset Model (2012),  with Mikhail Anufriev, Giulio Bottazzi and Matteo Marsili, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 36 (8), 1142–1161;
• Stochastic Stability in the Best Shot Network Game (2012), with Leonardo Boncinelli, Games and Economic Behavior 75(2), 538-554;
• Collaboration in Social Networks (2012), with Luca Dall’Asta and Matteo Marsili, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (12), 4395-4400;
• Optimal equilibria of the best shot game (2011) with Luca Dall'Asta and Abolfazl Ramezanpour, Journal of Public Economic Theory 13 (6), 885-901;
• Eight Degrees of Separation (2011), Research in Economics 65 (3), 259-270;
• Identifying the roles of race-based choice and chance in high school friendship network formation (2010), with Sergio Currarini and Matthew O. Jackson, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (11), 4857-4861;
• Observed choices and underlying opportunities (2010), with Silvio Franz and Matteo Marsili, Science and Culture 76 (9-10), 471-476;
• An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities and Segregation (2009), with Sergio Currarini and Matthew O. Jackson, Econometrica 77 (4), 1003-1045;
• Assessing the relevance of node features for network structure (2009), with Ginestra Bianconi and Matteo Marsili, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (28), 11433-11438;
• Effects of Tobin Taxes in Minority Game markets (2009), with Ginestra Bianconi, Tobias Galla and Matteo Marsili, Journal of Economic Behavior  and Organization 70, 231-240;
• Statistical Mechanics of maximal independent sets (2009), with Luca Dall’Asta and Abolfazl Ramezanpour, Physical Review E 80 (6), 061136;
• Optimization in task–completion networks (2008), with Luca Dall’Asta and Matteo Marsili, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, P02003;
• Marginal contribution, reciprocity and equity in segregated groups: Bounded rationality and self-organization in social networks (2007), with Simone Giansante, Alan Kirman and Sheri Markose, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31 (6), 2085-2107;
• Evolution of Risk Preferences (2006), Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance, 1 (1), 65-76;

 Invited papers and entries in books and handbooks

• Youth and science: A randomized survey experiment on adolescents' trust in scientific institutions (2023) with Elena Sestini, Alessio Muscillo, Gabriele Lombardi and Francesca Garbin, Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, 35 (3), Supplement;
  Preface: DGAA Focused Issue on Dynamic Games and Social Networks (2022) with Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli and Simon Weidenholzer, Dynamic Games and Applications;
• Stochastic network formation and homophily (2016), with Brian Rogers, Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, Y. Bramoullé, B. Rogers and A. Galeotti (Eds.), Oxford University Press.
• Public Goods in Networks: A Statistical Mechanics Approach (2013), with Luca Dall'Asta and Abolfazl Ramezanpour , Chapter  5 in “Game Theory and Applications – Volume 16”, editors L. Petrosjan and V. Mazalov, NOVA Publisher, 59-80;
• Simulations on Correlated Behavior and Social Learning (2010), with Andrea Blasco, in "Progress in Artificial Economics", editors M. LiCalzi, L. Milone and P. Pellizzari, Springer, 89-100;
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - The effect of misperceived signalling in a network formation process (2007), with Simone Giansante, Alan Kirman and Sheri Markose, in “Artificial Market Modeling”, ed. Andrea Consiglio, Springer, 221-233;
• A Model of Myerson-Nash equilibria in networks (2006), in “Artificial Economics”, editors P. Mathieu, B. Beaufils and O. Brandouy, Springer, 175-188;

 Books

• in 2009 Editor VDM Verlag published a book from my 2007 PhD Thesis: "Four multi-agents economic models - From evolutionary competition to social interaction" (ISBN 3639186540).