Francesco Squintani’s specific areas of research are the formal models of elections, communication games, dynamic games with asymmetric information, theoretical behavioral economics, formal models of international relations, and contract theory. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (Organizational Economics Programme and Political Economy Research Group). He is the Director of the Quantitative and Analytical Political Economy Research Centre (QAPEC) at the Economics Department, University of Warwick, one of the founding research groups of the European Political Economy Consortium (EPEC), together with Bocconi University - PERICLES, London School of Economics - PSPE, University of Mannheim - SFB 884, Pompeu Fabra - IPEG, University of Toulouse - IAST, and a founding member of the Political Econonomy UK Research Group (PolEconUK). He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Applied Research on International Markets, Money Banking and Regulation at Bocconi University.