Roberto GALBIATI
CEPR Research Fellow

Roberto Galbiati is a CNRS Professor (DR). He is also a CEPR Research Fellow (Public Economics program) and he serves as Associate Editor for the International Review of Law and Economics.
His primary research interests are law and economics, political economy and applied microeconomics. He has studied extensively how laws and individual motivations affect cooperative behavior and compliance, the effects of law enforcement on illegal behavior and the emergence and stability of legal and political institutions. Roberto Galbiati has published in top economics journals - Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Economic Journal, the AEJ: Applied Economics - as well as in field journals - Journal of Public Economics, American Law and Economics Review, Games and Economic Behavior and in interdisciplinary outlets such as PNAS and the Supreme Court Economic Review.
Prior to joining the Department of Economics at Sciences Po, Roberto Galbiati was a CNRS Researcher at the University of Paris-Ouest (Nanterre) and a Lecturer at Bocconi.
Roberto Galbiati holds a PhD from the University of Siena and a Master (Laurea) from the University Bocconi.
Research Areas
Political Economy, Public Finance, Law and Economics
Latest Publications
- Evaluating Electoral Responses to Policies. What do we learn from Italian incarceration policies
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 2016-18 | Migrants, Refugees and the rise of Far Right Populism
- The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
- When in Rome… on local norms and sentencing decisions
- Dynamic effects of enforcement on cooperation
- Essays in Political Economy
- Voler pour survivre
- Les étrangers sont-ils plus criminels que les nationaux?
- Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities
- Lois et normes : les enseignements de l'économie comportementale
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