Marco Ottaviani

Marco Ottaviani is Full Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, where he teaches Managerial Economics in the SDA Bocconi MBA program and Information Economics in core and elective courses at the PhD level. He served as Dean for Research from 2016 to 2018.

His research focuses on information and incentive problems at the crossroad of organizational economics, industrial organization, regulation and finance. Recently, he has been working on the design of prediction markets, information aggregation in organizations, incentives and regulation of information intermediaries, consumer protection and privacy, financing of innovation and grant making, incentives for collecting and reporting empirical evidence, publication bias, clinical trials and the design of approval regulation.

Marco graduated from Bocconi University in 1992 and earned a PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. Before returning to Bocconi in 2011, he started his career as junior faculty at University College London to then become Professor of Economics at the London Business School and Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.