Rate My Professor Claudio Mezzetti

Professor Claudio Mezzetti is the Colin Clark Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He earned a D.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford in 1988 with a thesis on 'Bargaining, Contracts and Bilateral Markets,' a Doctorate in Political Economy from the University of Siena in 1987 on 'Individual Decisions, Economic Efficiency and Distributive Justice,' and a Laurea in Political Science with highest honors from the University of Pisa in 1981. His research focuses on microeconomic theory, particularly mechanism design, game theory, and their applications to market design, auctions, antitrust enforcement, procurement, and information economics.

Mezzetti's academic career includes positions at prominent institutions. He has been at the University of Queensland since 2015, previously serving as Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne (2011–2015) and part-time Professor at the University of Warwick (2011–November 2024), Leverhulme Professor of Industry and Organisation at Warwick (2007–2011), Professor at the University of Leicester (2005–2007), and Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1999–2005), with earlier roles there as Associate Professor (1994–1999) and Assistant Professor (1990–1994). He was also Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis (1988–1990). An elected Fellow of the Econometric Society since 2018 and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory since 2023, he served on the Standing Committee of the Australasian Econometric Society (2018–2021). His work is funded by Australian Research Council grants, including DP240102584 'Privacy, Data Protection and Market Structure' (2024–2027) and DP190102904 'Information and Market Design; Mediation and Analogical Argumentation' (2019–2026). Key publications include 'Mechanism Design with Interdependent Valuations: Efficiency' (Econometrica, 2004), 'Repeated Nash Implementation' with Ludovic Renou (Theoretical Economics, 2017), 'Antitrust Leniency with Multi-Market Colluders' with Leslie M. Marx and Robert C. Marshall (American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015), 'Shuttle Diplomacy' with Piero Gottardi (Journal of Economic Theory, 2024), and 'Manipulative Disclosure' (RAND Journal of Economics, 2025).