Danila Serra
Southern Methodist University
Department of Economics
email: dserra@smu.edu
Phone: (+1) 214-768-4298
Address:
SMU, Dept. of Economics
3300
Dyer Street, Suite 301C
Umphrey
Lee Center
Dallas TX 75275-0496
I am an
Assistant Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas,
TX (since August 2012). I am a member of the Experiments in Governance
and Politics (EGAP) research network and a
research affiliate at the Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford. Before
joining SMU I was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Florida State
University and a member of the FSU Experimental Social Science Research Group
(2009-2012).
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.
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 (**NEW**)
New Advances in
Experimental Research on Corruption, edited with Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton
University), Research In Experimental Economics Volume
15, Bingly: Emerald Group Publishing, June 2012.
WORKING PAPERS
*NEW* “Does Social Judgment Diminish Rule Breaking?”,
with T. Salmon (SMU). March 2013: PDF.
*NEW* “Does competition among public offices reduce corruption? An experiment”, with D. Ryvkin
(FSU). February 2013: PDF.
“Participatory accountability and collective action:
Experimental evidence from Albanian schools”, with A. Barr (U of
Nottingham) and T. Packard (The World Bank). New Draft Oct. 2012: PDF.
An older version appeared as World Bank Policy Research Working paper WPS6027. Submitted.
PUBLICATIONS
“Intermediaries in Corruption: An Experiment”, with M. Drugov (Carlos III de Madrid) and J. Hamman
(FSU). PDF . Accepted for publication at Experimental
Economics.
“Combining
top-down and bottom-up accountability: Evidence from a bribery
experiment”. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 28(3): 569-587, August 2012. 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.
“Anti-corruption Policies: Lessons from the Lab”,
with K. Abbink. In D. Serra and L. Wantchekon (eds.) New
Advances in Experimental Research on Corruption, Research In Experimental Economics Volume 15, Bingly: Emerald Group Publishing, June 2012.
“Corruption and Culture: An experimental Analysis”, with A. Barr (U of Nottingham), Journal of Public Economics,
94, Issues 11-12, December 2010. Download here
.
“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
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Health providers and
clients in Kenya: An evaluation of interactions and willingness to report on
sub-par behaviors”, with I. Mbiti (SMU).
“Whistleblowing” with J. Butler (EIEF) and G. Spagnolo (Stockholm School of Economics).
“The industrial organization of corruption:
competition, search costs, and middlemen” (working title), with D. Ryvkin (FSU).
“I paid
a bribe: Information sharing and extortionary
corruption” (working title),
with D. Ryvkin (FSU) and James Tremewan
(U of Vienna).
“Corrupt police”, (working title) with K. Abbink (Monash University) and D.
Ryvkin (FSU).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
(PEER REVIEWED)
“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.
“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
BOOK CHAPTERS AND
POLICY PAPERS (NOT PEER REVIEWED)
“Experimental Research on
Corruption: Introduction and Overview”, with L. Wantchekon,
in D. Serra and L. Wantchekon (eds.) New Advances in Experimental Research on
Corruption, Research In Experimental
Economics Volume 15, Bingly: Emerald Group
Publishing, June 2012.
“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.