Domenico Colucci
Dipartimento di Matematica per le Decisioni - Via Lombroso 6/17 Firenze. Tel.: +39055 4796813 E-mail: domenico.colucci at unifi.it Università di Firenze

NEWS (08/01/2010): We (I and other unlucky fellows) have been turned down in the famous Firb national project a.k.a. "Futuro in Ricerca" (with admittedly some sense of humour). Nonetheless we were addressed as follows:

"General Comment. Il progetto ha un buon potenziale e coinvolge ricercatori “veramente giovani”, inoltre il costo non è elevato. Risulta quindi pienamente meritevole."

My translation: the project has good potential and involves truly young researchers; besides it has low costs. It is therefore fully deserving (funding). Shit...

A short CV

Research interests

Here is a partial list of things I work on (or attempt to):

- Topics in behavioural/experimental economics, both theory an applied work. In particular how people go about figuring out the relevant future, how to explain and predict experimental behaviour.

- Public procurement auctions, internet auctions.

- Models and experiments on voters' turnout

- Topics in macroeconomics: inflation expectations in surveys and other sources.

- Genetic algorithms and their use for modeling behaviour in experiments

More stuff to come, possibly (maybe).

Current papers/projects

Information disclosure in procurement auctions with horizontally differerentiated suppliers. - with Nicola Doni and Vincenzo Valori

A robust and transparent method to deal with diversity and variation of farming systems for typology identification. - with Cesare Pacini, Federico M. Stefanini and others

Heterogeneous adaptive expectations and cobweb phenomena. - with Vincenzo Valori

Voters' turnout under referenda. - with Massimiliano Landi and Vincenzo Valori

Price, feedback and expectations in online auctions behaviour. - with Simone Salotti and Vincenzo Valori

Published papers

D. Colucci, N. Doni, V. Valori - Dynamics in non-binding procurement auctions with boundedly rational bidders. Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics, Finance and the Social Sciences - Essays in Honour of John Barkley Rosser Jr. Bischi, Gian Italo; Chiarella, Carl; Gardini, Laura (Eds.) (2009 ) (working paper version available throug IDEAS)

M. Landi, D. Colucci - Rational and boundedly rational behavior in sender-receiver games. Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 52: pp. 665 - 686 (2008). (working paper version available throug IDEAS)

D. Colucci, V. Valori - Asset price dynamics when behavioural heterogeneity varies. Computational Economics, vol. 32: pp. 3-20 (2008).

D. Colucci, V. Valori - Ways of learning in a simple economic setting: a comparative approach. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals vol. 29, 653–670, (2006).

D. Colucci, V. Valori - Error learning behaviour and stability revisited. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Volume 29/3, 371-388 (2005)

D. Colucci: Steady states in the OLG model with seignorage and long-lived agents. Research in Economics 57/4, 371-381. (2003)

D. Colucci: Limited computational ability and approximation of dynamical systems. Computational Economics 17(2-3), 155-178. (2001)