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Luca Rigotti is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also serves as Director of Graduate Studies. He holds a PhD from Yale University and a summa cum laude degree from Università Bocconi. His research focuses on incomplete preferences in uncertain environments, including mechanism design, competitive markets, and behavioral economics. He has held positions at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Tilburg University, and has visiting roles at UC Berkeley and Duke's economics department.
His teaching spans PhD, Master's, and undergraduate courses in economic theory and econometrics. He received multiple teaching excellence awards at Fuqua and co-designed the Master in Quantitative Economics program. Major research contributions address surplus extraction under uncertainty, cooperative behavior in games, and the implications of heterogeneous beliefs.
Notable works include analyzing observable consequences of incomplete preferences, detecting surplus extraction robustness, and experimental studies on social surplus and moral behavior. His research appears in top journals like Econometrica, AER, and the Journal of Economic Theory.
