Danila Serra

Florida State University
Department of Economics

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Bellamy Building, Room 258
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2180
email: dserra@fsu.edu
Phone: (+1) 850-644-7083

 

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Florida State University (August 2009 to present). I am a member of the FSU Experimental Social Science Research Group and the Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP) research network.

 

Education: PhD in Economics, University of Oxford (2009); MSc in Economics, London School of Economics (2003); BS (laurea) in Economics, Bocconi University, Milan (2001).

 

Research fields: Experimental Economics; Development Economics; Economics of Corruption; Culture, Norms and Institutions.

 

In May 2012 I will be visiting the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) in Rome, Italy.

In June 2012 I will be visiting LUISS University, in Rome, Italy.

In August 2012 I will move to Southern Methodist University (SMU), in Dallas, TX.


 

CV

SHORT CV

My Research in Brief        

Fieldwork (Photos)

Teaching


 

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My research has been featured in the 9 November 2011 issue of the magazine New Scientist             

Read the article, titled The underhand ape: Why corruption is normal”, here , or here.

 

 

EDITED VOLUME (forthcoming)

 

New Advances in Experimental Research on Corruption, edited with Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University), Research In Experimental Economics Volume 15, Bingly: Emerald Group Publishing, forthcoming in spring 2012.

 

I have permission to share the table of contents and the preliminary drafts of the chapters I coauthored. See below.

 

Table of contents

Ch. 1: “Experimental Research on Corruption: Introduction and Overview”, written by D. Serra and L. Wantchekon.

Ch. 4: “Anti-corruption Policies: Lessons from the lab”, written by K. Abbink and D. Serra.

 

 

 

WORKING PAPERS

 

“Participatory accountability and collective action”, with A. Barr (U of Nottingham) and T. Packard (The World Bank). World Bank Policy Research Working paper WPS6027. PDF.

 

 

“Intermediaries in Corruption: An Experiment”, with M. Drugov (Carlos III de Madrid) and J. Hamman (FSU). PDF . Submitted.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

“Combining top-down and bottom-up accountability: Evidence from a bribery experiment”. Forthcoming in the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Online advance access here.

 

 

“How corruptible are you? Bribery under uncertainty”, with D. Ryvkin (FSU), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81(2012): 466-477. Download here.

 

 

“Corruption and Culture: An experimental Analysis”, with A. Barr (U of Nottingham), Journal of Public Economics, 94, Issues 11-12, December 2010. Download here .

 

 

“Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: Evidence from Ethiopia”, with P. Serneels (UEA) and A. Barr (U of Nottingham) Personality and Individual Differences, 51(3): 309-314. Special issue on Personality and Economics, edited by E. Ferguson, J.J. Heckman and P. Corr (invited submission). Download here.

 

 

“The Twin Effects of Globalization: Evidence from a sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms'”, with F. Daveri (IGIER-Bocconi) and P. Manasse (UBologna) Rivista di Politica Economica, SIPI; I-III, pp. 223-251.

 

 

“The effects of externalities and framing on bribery in a petty corruption experiment”, with A. Barr (U of Nottingham), Experimental Economics, 12 (4): 488-503, 2009. Download here.

 

 

“Empirical Determinants of Corruption: A sensitivity Analysis,” Public Choice 126 (1-2), 225-256, 2006. You can download a shorter version of the paper here

 

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS AND POLICY PAPERS

 

“Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents’ Demand for Accountability: Evidence from Albania”, with A. Barr (U of Nottingham) and T. Packard (World Bank), Policy Research Working Paper No. 5643, The World Bank, April 2011. PDF

 

 

“Studying Corruption through Experiments” in Kreutner, M. ed. Practice Meets Science: Contemporary Anti-Corruption Dialogue, Vienna: Manz, 2010.

 

 

Discovering the Real World –Health Workers’ Career Choices and Early Work Experience in Ethiopia, with P. Serneels (UEA) and M. Lindelow (World Bank), The World Bank, Washington DC, June 2010. Download here.

 

 

 

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

“Experiments on Rule Breaking”, with T. Salmon (SMU).

 

 

“Does competition among public offices reduce corruption? An experiment”, with D. Ryvkin (FSU).

 

 

“Parents’ participation in Angola’s primary schools” (working title), with Pedro Vicente (Nova University, Lisbon)

 

 

“Corrupt police”, (working title) with K. Abbink (Monash University)

 

 

“The industrial organization of corruption: competition, search costs, and middlemen” (working title), with D. Ryvkin (FSU).

 

 

 “Institutions, culture and colonial history: An experimental project”, (working title) with T. Salmon (SMU).

 

 

 

Updated: March, 2012