Professor Egidi was born in Turin in 1942. He graduated in physics from the University of Turin in 1966. He has been full professor of Political Economy since 1987 at University of Trento, where he held the positions of Director of Department of Economics (1989-1995) and Rector of the University (1996-2004) .

Professor Egidi moved to Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, in 2005, where he is currently professor of “Economics of uncertainty and information” , Faculty of Economics. He has been appointed Rector of the University in 2006.

Professor Egidi is also Director of the Computable and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL) that was founded in 1995 in co-operation with the Center for Computable Economics (CEE) of the University of California, Los Angeles run by Professor Axel Leijonhufvud.

He is the author of more than fifty publications (articles and essays) , and is Associated Editor of Industrial and Corporate Change, History of Economic Ideas, European Journal of Economic and Social Systems and Mind and Society.

He has been lecturer and invited speaker in a number of international conferences and workshops and has been visiting fellow at several Universities in the USA and in Europe. He co-operates with several research groups in Italy and abroad, including the Universities of Michigan, Stanford, UCLA.

Professor Egidi was also member of the Board of CRUI, the Italian Conference of University Rectors, and Delegate for the Relations with the EU.

He is a member of the following associations :

• Società Italiana degli Economisti
• Italian Association for he History of Political Economy (Storep)
• European Economic Society
• European Association of Evolutionary Economics.

Professor Egidi’s main areas of research include:

• Experimental Economics
• Bounded rationality approach to economic behaviour
• Cognitive and Behavioral Economics

Prof. Egidi is also:

• Secretary General of the he German-Italian University Centre (Ateneo Italo-Tedesco – Deutsch-Italienisches Hochschulzentrum)
• Member of the Board of Directors of MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Université Franco Italienne
• Member of Campus Europae, an international university foundation , Luxembourg

Recent selected publications

• “Decomposition patterns in problem solving”, in Cognitive Economics: New Trends, Contributions to Economic Analysis, volume 280, Chapter 1, Part I, Decisions and Beliefs : edited by Richard Topol & Bernard Walliser, Elsevier. (2007)
• “The cognitive explanation of economic behaviour: from Simon to Kahneman” in Arena R. and Festré A. (editors) Handbook of Knowledge and Economics, Aldershot U.K.: Edward Elgar (2007 forthcoming)- With. S. Rizzello, Marshall and Cognitive Economics, The Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall, ed. by T. Raffaelli, G. Becattini and M. Dardi, Aldershot U.K : Elgar, (2007).
• “Dalla razionalità limitata all’economia comportamentale”. In Le Nuove Economie, Viale, R., editor. Milano, Edizioni il Sole 24 Ore. (2005)
• “Prefazione”. In Economia Cognitiva e Sperimentale, Guala, V., Motterlini, M., editors, Milano: Università Bocconi Editore. (2005)
• “How Uncritical is the standard mentality of academic economists?” In History of Economic Ideas XIII/3 (2005)
• From Bounded Rationality to Behavioral Economics, Social Science Research Network, El. Paper Collection, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=758424 (2005)
• with Rizzello, S. “Cognitive Economics: foundations and historical roots”. In Cognitive Economics, Egidi, M., Rizzello, S., editors. Aldershot U.K.: Edward Elgar,1-22. (2004)
• with Marengo, L. “Cognition, institutions, near decomposability: rethinking Herbert Simon's contribution”. In Models of A Man: Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon, Augier M., March, J. J., editors. Cambridge USA: MIT Press. (2004)
• “Discrepancies: competing theories and ideologies as cognitive traps”. In, Cognitive Developments in Economics, Rizzello, S., editor. London: Routledge. (2003)
• “Biases in Organizational Behavior”. In The Economics of Choice, Change and Organization: Essays in Memory of Richard M. Cyert, Augier M., March J. J., editors. Aldershot U.K.: Elgar, 190-242. (2001)
• “Herbert Alexander Simon's Contribution to the Sciences of Artificial”. In Proceedings EAPE 2001 Conference, Siena, 8-11 Novembre 2001.
• - With Bonini, N., “Cognitive Traps in Individual and Organizational Behavior: some empirical evidence”. In Revue d'economie industrielle. Paris:C.N.R.S. (88), 153-186. (1999)