Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche

Marco Antonio Marini is Full Professor of Economics (SECS P/01 Economia Politica) at the Department of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza. He took a BSc. in Economics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, a MSc. in Economics at the Université Catholique de Louvain, a Doctorate in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome and a Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently Fellow of Centro Ricerche in Economia delle Istituzioni of the University Roma Tre (CREI), member of the scientific committee of CIRIEC International on Social Enterprise, head of the international Working Group "Organization and Governance in Social Economy Enterprises" of CIRIEC International, member of the editorial board of CIRIEC España Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa and editor in chief of the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley. He is scientific organizer of the international conference "Oligo Workshop", member of Game Theory Society, of European Economic Association for Industrial Economics and of Società Italiana degli Economisti. He has taught in a few Italian and international universities as the London School of Economics, the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” and the IMT of Lucca. He is currently involved in international research groups with the Paris School of Economics, l’Université de Notre-Dame de la Paix di Namur and the University of Graz. His research activity mainly concerns the application of Game Theory to various issues of Microeconomics, Public Economics, Industrial Organization, Comparative Economics, Transport Economics and Environmental Economics. Most of my recent research activity has been devoted to apply coalition theory to the analysis of endogenous formation of mergers and alliances between firms or between nonprofit organizations.