Carmine Guerriero

Carmine Guerriero is Rita Levi-Montalcini Associate Professor of Economics. His chair has been established thanks to a 3.4 million Euros 2016 Rita Levi-Montalcini grant from MUR. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 2010 and has been assistant professor and program director of the ACLE from 2009 to 2016. From 2017, Guerriero is founding director of the Origins Project, which is now funded by a 2022 PRIN grant (257,000 euro) and a 2023 FIS grant (2,008,000 euro). In 2020, he has founded the Cambridge Elements in Law, Economics and Politics for which he serves as Editor-in-Chief. He has, moreover, served on the editorial boards of Data in Brief, IRLE and Public Choice. He has received the EARIE Paul Geroski award prize in 2007 and the Hans-Jurgen-Ewers Prize in 2011. Guerriero studies the determinants and impact of legal and political institutions, and he has published in top archaeology, economics, law, politics, history and multidisciplinary journals, i.e., Economica, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Archaeological Science, Quaternary Science Reviews, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and PNAS.