In 'Staff' Key members of staffStaff Back to 'Birmingham Business School' Dr Amalia Di Girolamo The Department of EconomicsLecturer in Experimental Economics Contact details Telephone+44(0) 121 415 8215Emaila.digirolamo@bham.ac.uk AddressDepartment of EconomicsJG Smith Building, Room 237University of BirminghamEdgbastonBirminghamB15 2TT Amalia Di Girolamo is an experimental and behavioural economist. Her research is primarily focused on the analysis of decision-making under risk. Part of her research has analysed the importance of financial literacy on the individual choices by means of field and lab experiments. Another significant strand of Amalia’s research looks at the role of gender differences in risk and competitive behaviours. Qualifications PhD in Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 2010 MSc in Economics, Pompeu Fabra University, 2005 BSc in Economics, University of Roma Tre, 2004 Biography Amalia received a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. During her PhD she spent three academic years at the Economics Department of the University of Chicago as a Fulbright Doctoral Visiting Student Researcher. After a two year Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Economics Department of Durham University, Amalia joined the department of Economics at the University of Birmingham in September 2013. Teaching The Economics of Uncertainty and Information Behavioural and Experimental Economics Research Behavioural and Experimental Economics Applied Microeconomics Public economics Other activities Programme Director for the BSc in Economics Publications Risk and Time Preferences of Entrepreneurs : Evidence from a Danish Field Experiment. (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and Morten Lau), Theory and Decision, Vol. 77, No. 3, 2014, p. 341-357
Dr Amalia Di Girolamo The Department of EconomicsLecturer in Experimental Economics Contact details Telephone+44(0) 121 415 8215Emaila.digirolamo@bham.ac.uk AddressDepartment of EconomicsJG Smith Building, Room 237University of BirminghamEdgbastonBirminghamB15 2TT Amalia Di Girolamo is an experimental and behavioural economist. Her research is primarily focused on the analysis of decision-making under risk. Part of her research has analysed the importance of financial literacy on the individual choices by means of field and lab experiments. Another significant strand of Amalia’s research looks at the role of gender differences in risk and competitive behaviours. Qualifications PhD in Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 2010 MSc in Economics, Pompeu Fabra University, 2005 BSc in Economics, University of Roma Tre, 2004 Biography Amalia received a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. During her PhD she spent three academic years at the Economics Department of the University of Chicago as a Fulbright Doctoral Visiting Student Researcher. After a two year Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Economics Department of Durham University, Amalia joined the department of Economics at the University of Birmingham in September 2013. Teaching The Economics of Uncertainty and Information Behavioural and Experimental Economics Research Behavioural and Experimental Economics Applied Microeconomics Public economics Other activities Programme Director for the BSc in Economics Publications Risk and Time Preferences of Entrepreneurs : Evidence from a Danish Field Experiment. (with Steffen Andersen, Glenn W. Harrison and Morten Lau), Theory and Decision, Vol. 77, No. 3, 2014, p. 341-357