About me

I am a post-doctoral researcher at Bocconi University.

I am a neuroeconomist studying how basic processes interact to produce complex economic behavior.

I am an interdisciplinary researcher between behavioral economics, psychology, and (decision) neuroscience.

I received my PhD from the University of Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Prof. Ernst Fehr.

My research aims to formulate and test models of human behavior which accurately predict choices and process data (response times, neural activity, etc.), with the ultimate goal of helping people make better decisions.

In particular, I am developing and testing new methods to reveal preferences and their stability.

I have worked in several subfields including decisions under risk, intertemporal choices, pain, investment behavior, moral decision making, and voting behavior.

I am familiar with state-of-the-art research methods from different disciplines, examples include structural models, machine learning, EEG, and eye-tracking experiments.

List of publications

• Part-Time Bayesians: Incentives and Behavioral Heterogeneity in Belief Updating, C. Alós-Ferrer and M. Garagnani, Management Science, forthcoming.
• The Predictive Power of Risk Elicitation Tasks, M. Garagnani, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, forthcoming.
• Voting under Time Pressure, C. Alós-Ferrer and M. Garagnani, Judgment and Decision Making, forthcoming.
• The Gradual Nature of Economic Errors, C. Alós-Ferrer and M. Garagnani, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022.
• Strength of Preference and Decisions Under Risk, C. Alós-Ferrer and M. Garagnani, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2022.
• The Reinforcement Paradox: Monetary Incentives and Bayesian Updating, C. Alós-Ferrer, J. Buckenmaier, M. Garagnani, and A. Ritschel, Economics Letters, 2021.
• The Role of Payoff Valence on Voting: Egalitarian for Gains and Selfish for Losses, C. Alós-Ferrer, M. Garagnani, and J. Garcia-Segarra, Frontiers in Psychology, 2021.
• Choice Consistency and Strength of Preference, C. Alós-Ferrer and M. Garagnani, Economics Letters, 2021.
• The Cognitive Foundations of Cooperation, C. Alós-Ferrer and M. Garagnani, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021.
• Cognitive Reflection, Decision Biases, and Response Times, C. Alós-Ferrer and M. Garagnani, Frontiers in Psychology, 2016.

Working papers

• Who Likes It More? Using Response Times To Elicit Group Preferences in Surveys (with C. Alós-Ferrer), working paper.
• A Better Way of Measuring Acute Pain (with C. Alós-Ferrer, P. Schweinhardt, and P.N. Tobler), working paper.
• Transitivity Violations: Only Noise?, C. Alós-Ferrer, E. Fehr, and M. Garagnani
• Stochastic Choice and Preference Reversals, C. Alós-Ferrer, J. Buckenmaier, and M. Garagnani.
• Regret Avoidance and Deliberate Randomization , C. Alós-Ferrer, A. Rustichini, J. Buckenmaier, and M. Garagnani
• Noise and Bias, C. Alós-Ferrer, J. Buckenmaier, and M. Garagnani.
• The Neural Foundations of Preference Reversals, C. Alós-Ferrer and M. Garagnani.
• Detection of Conflict in Economic Tasks, C. Alós-Ferrer and M. Garagnani.
• Cognition and Social Motives in the Ultimatum Game, E. Bilancini, L. Boncinelli, and M. Garagnani.
• Revealing the Noise Behind Prospect Theory, C. Alós-Ferrer, E. Fehr, and M. Garagnani
• The Determinants of the Disposition Effect, C. Alós-Ferrer, J. Buckenmaier, and M. Garagnani.
• The Neural Foundations of the Disposition Effect, C. Alós-Ferrer, J. Buckenmaier, and M. Garagnani.