Silvio Ravaioli consults on economic, marketing, and statistical issues arising in litigation and regulatory proceedings. Dr. Ravaioli’s expertise includes consumer behavior, the analysis of alleged “dark patterns,” branding, survey methodology, and quantitative analyses of large datasets. He has supported clients and experts in matters related to product liability allegations, false advertising claims, data privacy, antitrust and competition, and intellectual property.
Selected industry experience
- Consumer products, intellectual property, online retail, and technology.
Academic research and publications
- “The status quo and belief polarization of inattentive agents: Theory and experiment,” with Vladimír Novák and Andrei Matveenko, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 16, 4 (2024).
- “Individual differences in information demand have a low dimensional structure predicted by some curiosity traits,” with Jach K. Hayley, et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121, 45 (2024).
- “Is EEG suitable for marketing research? A systematic review,” with Andrea Bazzani, Leopoldo Trieste, Ugo Faraguna, and Giuseppe Turchetti, Frontiers in Neuroscience 14 (2020).
- “Diverse motives for human curiosity,” with Kenji Kobayashi, Adrien Baranès, Michael Woodford, and Jacqueline Gottlieb, Nature Human Behaviour 3, 6 (2019).