Chiara Aina
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, affiliated with the Barcelona School of Economics. I graduated with a PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich in 2023 and I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at Harvard University during the 2023-2024 academic year.
I use theory and experiments to study topics at the intersection of economics and psychology. My research aims to expand our understanding of how behavior is driven by narratives, emotions, and strategic thinking, with a particular focus on the role of beliefs.
publications
Frustration and Anger in the Ultimatum game: An Experiment
Games and Economic Behavior, Issue 122, July 2020, pp.150-167
(joint with P. Battigalli, A. Gamba)
We investigate the role of frustration and anger theoretically and experimentally in the context of the Ultimatum Minigame.
research
Tailored Stories
Is it possible to persuade other by providing interpretations of unknown events? I study the problem of persuading a boundedly rational agent without controlling or knowing the piece of information she observes.
Contingent Belief Updating
We study the effect of contingent thinking on belief updating.
Weighting Competing Models
(joint with F.H. Schneider)
We investigate belief updating in the presence of competing narratives.
Competing in Tailores Stories
(joint with M. Mojoli)
We investigate the competition between senders in providing models to interpret new data.