Luca Flabbi

Luca Flabbi, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, is a labor economist with focus on gender differentials, discrimination, bargaining models, and search theory. He also engages in psychoanalytic-economic intersections through affiliations with the Carolina Population Center, IZA, and CHILD-Carlo Alberto.

His research spans empirical microeconomics, game theory, and legal-economic thought, often integrating psychoanalytic frameworks. Recent work analyzes AI's ideological language and investment theory through Freudian lenses.

• Scientific Awards:
  • Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
  • Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
  • Research Associate, CHILD-Carlo Alberto
• Publications:
  • 2025: AI's judgment limitations
  • 2024: Nature's legal-economic thought
  • 2023: Termination in psychoanalysis
  • 2020s: Contributions to Giacomo Contri's theories

Flabbi maintains dual roles in academic economics and international psychoanalytic initiatives, co-editing Labor Economics and organizing cross-disciplinary symposia.