Piero GOTTARDI

Piero Gottardi is a Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, with a secondary appointment at the Department of Economics, University of Essex. His research focuses on economic theory, finance, and macroeconomics with incomplete markets, collateral constraints, asymmetric information, and optimal taxation.

• Education: Laurea in Economics (1985, Universita di Venezia), M.Phil. (1987) and Ph.D. (1991) from University of Cambridge

Research interests include equilibrium corporate finance, firms' investment and financing in dynamic economies, risk sharing and contagion in networks, and information markets. His work has been funded by MIUR and explores themes like market design, financial policy relevance, and non-neutrality of money.

Selected recent publications analyze decentralized markets with adverse selection, risk classification heterogeneity, tax wedges with financial frictions, and Gale's bargaining contributions. He also serves as Associate Editor for Journal of Economic Theory and Journal of Public Economic Theory.

Teaching includes graduate courses in Advanced Macro and Financial Theory and undergraduate/political economics courses at Ca' Foscari University.