Dr Federica Farolfi
- Lecturer in Behavioural Economics (Economics)
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0284-0378Biography
Federica Farolfi joined the Adam Smith Business School in May 2023, as a Lecturer in Behavioural Economics. She is the Deputy Director of the Glasgow Experimental Lab (GaEL), which launched in the Adam Smith Business School in 2025.
She is a former postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cologne (2017-2018) and at the Centre for Neuroeconomics at the University of Zurich (2018-2020). She obtained her PhD in Management at the University of Vienna (2011-2017). Her research focuses on the determinants of human cooperation both at the individual and team levels, the influence of cognitive shortcuts underlying decision making under uncertainty, and the relationship between theory of mind, hypermentalizing and level-k reasoning.
Research interests
Federica is a member of the Applied Economics research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Behavioural Economics
- Experimental Economics
- Neuroeconomics
Publications
2021
Farolfi, Federica 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0284-0378, Chang, Li-Ang and Engelmann, Jan B.
(2021)
Trust and emotion.
In: Krueger, Frank and Mason, George (eds.)
The Neurobiology of Trust.
Cambridge University Press, pp. 124-154.
ISBN 9781108770880
(doi: 10.1017/9781108770880.009)
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos, Buckenmaier, Johannes and Farolfi, Federica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0284-0378
(2021)
When are efficient conventions selected in networks?
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 124,
104074.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jedc.2021.104074)
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos, Buckenmaier, Johannes and Farolfi, Federica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0284-0378
(2021)
Imitation, network size, and efficiency.
Network Science, 9(1),
pp. 123-133.
(doi: 10.1017/nws.2020.43)
2019
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos and Farolfi, Federica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0284-0378
(2019)
Trust games and beyond.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13,
887.
(doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00887)
(PMID:31551673)
(PMCID:PMC6746905)
Articles
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos, Buckenmaier, Johannes and Farolfi, Federica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0284-0378
(2021)
When are efficient conventions selected in networks?
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 124,
104074.
(doi: 10.1016/j.jedc.2021.104074)
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos, Buckenmaier, Johannes and Farolfi, Federica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0284-0378
(2021)
Imitation, network size, and efficiency.
Network Science, 9(1),
pp. 123-133.
(doi: 10.1017/nws.2020.43)
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos and Farolfi, Federica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0284-0378
(2019)
Trust games and beyond.
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13,
887.
(doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00887)
(PMID:31551673)
(PMCID:PMC6746905)
Book Sections
Farolfi, Federica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0284-0378, Chang, Li-Ang and Engelmann, Jan B.
(2021)
Trust and emotion.
In: Krueger, Frank and Mason, George (eds.)
The Neurobiology of Trust.
Cambridge University Press, pp. 124-154.
ISBN 9781108770880
(doi: 10.1017/9781108770880.009)
