Coming from Cornell University, Marco Battaglini, after graduating from Bocconi University earned a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University then pursued his academic career in the United States. Before teaching at Cornell as Edward H. Meyer Professor of Economics, Battaglini was at Princeton for 14 years. He is editor of the Games and Economic Behavior publication, and is on the Board of Editors of American Economic Review: Insights. His recent research interests focus on Dynamic models of public decision making; multilateral bargaining in legislatures; information aggregation; economics of networks. His research areas are Economic Theory, Game Theory, Contract Theory, Political Economy, and Laboratory Experiments.
 
The Department's other new Full Professor, Eleonora Patacchini, is also coming from the prestigious Cornell University. She previously taught at Syracuse University and La Sapienza in Rome. Eleonora Patacchini holds a PhD in Statistics from La Sapienza and a PhD in Economics from Southampton University. Her studies range from big data to applied economics with specific regard to ethnic minorities and gender differences. Her recent research focuses on the empirical analysis of behavioral models of strategic interactions for decision making.