Working Papers

• • All is not lost: Organized Crime and Social Capital Formation (with P. Buonanno and  I. Ferrari) [2024]

• • Education and Conflict: Evidence from a policy experiment in Indonesia (with D. Rohner) [2019] 

Publications

• • Reconciliation Narratives: The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War (with E. Esposito, T. Rotesi and M. Thoenig) American Economic Review [2023] 

• • Ballot or Bullet: The Impact of UK’s Representation of the People Act on Peace and Prosperity (with A. Marcucci and D. Rohner) - Economic Journal [2023] [wp]

  • Threat of Taxation, Stagnation and Social Unrest: Evidence from 19th Century Sicily (with Gema Lax-Martinex and D. Rohner)  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization [2022]  [wp]

  • Trouble Underground: Demand shocks and the labor supply behavior of New York City taxi drivers  -  Italian Economic Journal [2021]

  • Random interactions in the Chamber: Legislators’ behavior and political distance - Journal of Public Economics [2018] [wp]

• • Choosing the open sea: The cost to the UK of staying out of the euro - Journal of International Economics [2017] [replication package]

  • The costs of firm exit and labour market policies (with D. Andrews and  I. Ferrari) - The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy [2019]

  • The demand for safe assets in emerging economies and global Imbalances (with R. Ahrend and C. Schwellnus) - The World Economy [2018]

  • Credit, endogenous collateral and risky assets: A DSGE model  (with M. Falagiarda) - International Review of Economics & Finance [2017]

Policy Papers

• • Spillovers from the global productivity frontier and public policy (with D. Andrews and S. Albrizio)  [OECD wp]

Chapter in Book

• • Memory and nation building: The dangers of common enemy narratives (with E. Esposito, T. Rotesi and M. Thoenig) in Nation Building Big Lessons from Successes and Failures edited by D. Rohner and E. Zhuravskaya CEPR Press [2023] 

Popular Press 

• • (EN) Memory and reconciliation: The dangers of common enemy narratives (with  E. Esposito, T. Rotesi and M. Thoenig), VoxEU  [link]

  • (EN) Random seating in Parliaments (with L. Carson), newDemocracy [link] 

  • (EN) Books not bullets (with D. Rohner), VoxEU  [link]

  • (EN) Italy and the Euro: Myths and realities (with P. Manasse and T. Nannicini), VoxEU  [link]

  • (ES) Más dinero para derrotar la deflación, elEconomista [link]

  • (IT) All'Italia conviene la moneta unica? (with P. Manasse and T. Nannicini), Linkiesta [link]

E-Book 

• • (IT) Gli effetti dell'Euro sull'economia italiana (with P. Manasse and T. Nannicini), ed. Linkiesta [link]