Giovanni Mastrobuoni

Giovanni Mastrobuoni is a Professor at the University of Essex, affiliated with the Department of Economics. His research spans crime economics, social security, migration, and law and economics, with a focus on empirical analysis and policy evaluation.

• Education: Not explicitly detailed in the text.

Research Interests: His work explores the economic determinants of criminal behavior, the impact of social security policies on retirement, and the socio-economic effects of migration. He applies network analysis to organized crime and investigates the role of information in policy outcomes.

Recent Articles: Topics include pandemic risk behavior, prison conditions, immigrant underreporting of crime, and police productivity. These studies often intersect economics with criminology, leveraging natural experiments and empirical data.

Scientific Awards: Not explicitly mentioned in the text.

• Grants: Funded by the British Academy for projects on evidence-based crime prevention (2016) and externalities in private policing (2014).

Advising: Supervised PhD students on applied microeconomics and innovation. No labs or teams are explicitly detailed.