Zachary Porreca
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bocconi University
Zachary Porreca is a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on applied microeconomics at the intersection of crime, corruption, and legal institutions, with particular attention to illicit markets, violence, and urban environments, as well as the emergence of informal institutions outside formal governance structures.
Porreca serves as a researcher in Bocconi University’s CLEAN research unit and is a Criminal Justice Innovation Fellow with the Social Science Research Council. He is also affiliated with several research networks focused on labor economics, regulation, and public policy.
Before beginning his doctoral studies, he conducted research in natural-resource economics, including work on fishery production.
His distinctions include the Adam Smith Award in Economics and a Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship, along with multiple competitive research fellowships and grants from the Institute for Humane Studies and the Mercatus Center.
He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from West Virginia University and a bachelor’s from Bloomsburg University.
