Luigi Butera

Hello! I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Copenhagen Business School.  

My research studies how people form and update beliefs, and how these beliefs shape economic behavior. I am particularly interested in how psychological and social forces influence the way people interpret information—from beliefs about how they are perceived by others, to beliefs about the effectiveness of prosocial actions, to beliefs about the broader economy—and how these subjective perceptions ultimately affect individual and collective outcomes. My work combines laboratory and field experiments, surveys, administrative data, and causal inference methods.

 I am the co-founder and director of the Institute for Behavioral Economics. I am the recipient of a 2021 DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader Starting Grant. 

I began my studies at Bocconi University, where I received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences. I have received my Ph.D. training in Economics at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University and at the Gate Lab, CNRS, and I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Lyon.