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Fabio Maccheroni Is Awarded the 2010 Carlo Alberto Medal

, by Fabio Todesco, translated by Alex Foti
The Bocconi Professor of Mathematical Economics is given the prestigious award handed out by Turin-based Collegio Carlo Alberto for the Best Italian Economist under 40 years of age

After the preferences expressed by 351 economists working in Italy, the rest of the EU, the US, Canada and Israel, and the final selection made by a committee composed of seven internationally renowned economists, the 2010 Carlo Alberto Medal 2010 awarded to Fabio Maccheroni, Full Professor of Mathematical Economics at Bocconi University.

Milanese, born in 1971, Maccheroni graduated in Mathematics from the University of Milan and received his Doctorate in 1999 from the consortium of universities of Brescia, Turin and Milan (Bicocca and Cattolica). Since then, he has been teaching at Bocconi University. He was visiting professor at Boston University, Caltech, Princeton, Paris I, and Collegio Carlo Alberto.

The prize was established in 2007 by the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin and goes to an Italian scholar under 40 years who has provided significant contributions to the advancement of economic science.

This is the first time the medal goes to a scholar who has chosen to work in Italy after completing his post-doc training.Several Bocconians have already won the prize, but they were all teaching abroad. In 2007 the Carlo Alberto Medal was won by Nicola Persico, professor at New York University; in 2008 by Enrico Moretti, professor at UC Berkeley, and in 2009 by Marco Battaglini, professor at Princeton University.

"Fabio is a highly productive scholar," said the Committee motivating the award, "and has provided outstanding contributions to economics, focusing on models of decision making. He is the author of fundamental insights on the representation of incomplete preferences, an issue only partially understood before his contributions (...). He has given a fundamental contribution to decision theory in conditions of uncertainty, and his work has had great influence on current research in economics in the broadest sense, including applications in finance and macroeconomics."

As winner of the medal, on the 9th of June, Maccheroni will give a lecture at Collegio Carlo Alberto, as part of the Pareto Lectures, held this year by Angus Deaton (Princeton) and Charlie Plott (Caltech).

The committee that awarded the prize was composed by Orazio Attanasio (University College London), Maristella Botticini (Bocconi), Luigi Guiso (European University Institute), Christopher Pissarides (LSE), Thomas Sargent (NYU), Guido Tabellini (Bocconi), and Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich).

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