Carolina Raffaelli

My research focuses on judgment and decision-making, with a special interest in consumption utility. In my primary stream, I investigate how consumers weigh the subdimensions of total usage, consider the impact of purchase decisions on their usage of existing products, and estimate product longevity. This work received an Honorable Mention at the 2025 MSI Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition. My broader research agenda also explores asymmetries in information processing (e.g., sensitivities to deviations of time and money in wage-rate contracts, and information preferences under uncertainty).

Before my PhD, I worked as a lab manager at BELSS, the Bocconi Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences, and as an intern at Amazon in Milan, Italy. I hold an MS in Marketing Management and a BS in Economics and Finance from Bocconi University.