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BIO
Professor Serena has a PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (cum laude). Before joining CUNEF, he worked as a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (Germany). His research focuses on microeconomics and political economy, paying special attention to contest analysis. His papers have been published in international journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Mathematics of Operations Research.
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Education
PhD in Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (2017)
Master in Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (2012), and Master in Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan (2009)
BA in Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan (2007)
Research Interests
Microeconomics, Political Economy, Industrial Organization.
Career
Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Germany, 2016–2023Publications in Scientific Journals
Ewerhart, Christian; Serena, Marco: “On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms”, Mathematics of Operations Research, 2024.
Chen, Bo; Serena, Marco: “Disclosure Policies in All-Pay Auctions with Bid Caps”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 209, 141-160, 2022.
Barbieri, Stefano; Serena, Marco: “Biasing Dynamic Contests between Ex-Ante Symmetric Players”, Games and Economic Behavior, 136, 1-30, 2022.
Send, Jonas; Serena, Marco: “An Empirical Analysis of Stubborn Bargaining”, Journal of Economic Psychology, 90, Art. 102516, 2022.
Serena, Marco : “Harnessing Beliefs to Optimally Disclose Contestants' Types”, Economic Theory, 74(3), 763-792, 2021.