Research
Articles
2024 Predicting Drop-Out from Higher Education: Evidence from Italy, Economic Modelling, 130, 106583 (with Delogu, Lagravinese & Resce).
2023 From Choice to Performance in Secondary Schools: Evidence from a Disadvantaged Setting in Italy. Italian Economic Journal, 9, 529–555 (with Bussu, Pulina & Zanzurino).
2020 Business models for streaming platforms: content acquisition, advertising and users, Information Economics and Policy, vol. 52, September 2020, 100877 (with E. Carroni).
2019 Strategic Attractiveness and Release Decision for Cultural Goods, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 198-224 (with P. Belleflamme).
2018 American Beauty: trade flows and export costs of US movies, Journal of Cultural Economics, Vol. 42, Issue 4, pp. 701–716 (with GP. Meloni & J. Tena).
2018 On the distinctiveness of the electricity load profile, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 74, pp 317-325 (with M. Bicego, A. Farinelli, E. Grosso & S. Ramchurn).
2018 Do managerial skills matter? An analysis of the impact of managerial features on performance for the Italian football, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Volume 69, Issue 2, 1 February 2018, Pages 270-282 (with C. Detotto & J.D. Tena).
2016 Tax treaties and the allocation of taxing rights with developing countries, European Journal of Law and Economics, 42, pp. 383-404 (with P. Pistone, G. Pulina & M. Zagler).
2016 Local University Supply and Distance: a Welfare Analysis with Centralized and Decentralized Tuition Fees, Italian Economic Journal, Vol.2, Issue 2, pp. 239-252 (with E. Carroni & B. Cesi).
2015 The Great Beauty: Public Subsidies in the Italian Movie Industry, Italian Economic Journal, Volume 1, Issue 3, pp 445-455, (with G. Meloni and M. Pulina).
2015 Management Efficiency in Football: An Empirical Analysis of two Extreme Cases, Managerial and Decision Economics, vol.35, Issue 5, pages 286-298 (with Jara & Tena).
2014 Income tax, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital in a two-sector economy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 16, Issue 1, pages 24–47 (with C. Mendolicchio & T. Pietra).
2014 Institutional Complexity and Managerial Efficiency: A Simple Model, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, n.3, pages 321-330, (with J.D. Tena).
2014 Peer group and distance: when widening university participation is better, Manchester School, Vol 82 No. S2, pages 110–132 (with B. Cesi).
2012 Investments in Education in a Two-Sector, Random Matching Economy, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 48, Issue 6, pages 367–385 (with C. Mendolicchio & T. Pietra).
2012 Asymmetric Information and Overeducation, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 12: Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 47 (with C. Mendolicchio & T. Pietra).
2012 Short or long-term contract? Firm's optimal choice, Empirica, Vol. 39, Issue 1, pp. 1-18 (with J.D. Tena).
2011 Universal service financing in competitive postal markets: One size does not fit all, Review of Network Economics, Vol. 10: Iss. 3 (with A. Gautier).
2009 Delegation, externalities and organizational design, with Axel Gautier, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 29, no.4, pp. 2693-2702 (with A. Gautier).
2007 Delegation and Information Revelation, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 163, No. 4., pp. 574-597 (with A. Gautier).
2006 Contrat à durée déterminée et marché de l'emploi, Annales de l'Institut d'études européennes, vol. 8, pp. 273-286.
2005 Domanda del lavoro ed età della pensione: un'analisi con il Modello di Lazear, Economia, Società e Istituzioni, n. 3, pp. 351-366.
2001 Ricerca Bilaterale e Lavoro Temporaneo, Economia & Lavoro, n. 3, pp.121-134.
Book Chapters & Book
2023 Stato ed Evoluzione del Consumo di Suolo in Sardegna, in 29° Rapporto sull'Economia della Sardegna, Caruso, Dettori & Paci (eds.), CAGLIARI, Arkadia Editore (with Delogu, Magnani & Mancini).
2022 Drop-Out Decisions in a Cohort of Italian Universities. In: Checchi, D., Jappelli, T., Uricchio, A. (eds) Teaching, Research and Academic Careers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07438-7_4 (with Atzeni, Deidda & Delogu).
2021 Approfondimento. Né-né: un’altra faccia del divario, in 28° Rapporto sull'Economia della Sardegna, Atzeni & Dettori (eds.), CAGLIARI, Arkadia Editore (with L. Deidda).
2020 Accesso al corso di laurea in Medicina: numero programmato e sua implementazione. pp.9-20. In Riflessioni trasversali sopra il capitale umano - ISBN:978-88-3283-241-9 (with Atzeni A., Deidda L. & Delogu M).
2019 Le carriere degli universitari in Sardegna: abbandono degli studi tra il primo e il secondo anno, In: Bianca Biagi (ed.): Economia della Sardegna: 26° Rapporto 2019. CAGLIARI, Arkadia Editore, ISBN 9788868512231.
2018 State Subsidies to Film and Their Effects at the Box Office: Theorizing and Measuring Why Some Genres Do Better than Others. In: Murschetz P., Teichmann R., Karmasin M. (eds) Handbook of State Aid for Film. Media Business and Innovation. Springer (with Meloni & Pulina).
2016 Special Issue: Development in Sports Economics, in Rassegna di Diritto ed Economia dello Sport, Editor in charge (with Forrest and Tena), n. 2-3/15.
2005 Information acquisition in repeated relationships, with Axel Gautier, in Progress in Macroeconomics Research, Frank Columbus ed., Nova Science Publishers, Inc, pp. 177-192.
2002 Demande de travail et âge de la retraite, in Capital Humain et marchés du travail : perspectives régionales et européennes, CIFOP (ed.), pp. 205-215.
2001 Essays on Delegation and Temporary Employment, Ph.D. Dissertation, CIACO, nouvelle série-N.385, UCL.
Work in Progress
2024 Country vs Music: Strategic Incentives of Competing Voters (with Battiston, Magnani, & Rossi).
2023 Ten years of studies on tourism expenditure: a systematic review of microeconometric and parametric approaches (with Meleddu & Posadas).
2022 Effects of migration with endogenous labor supply and heterogeneous skills (with Atzeni, Deidda & Delogu).
2022 Swimming with or against the stream? Understanding competition in the streaming industry (with Belleflamme & Madio).
2019 Education race, supply of skills, and the wage skill premium (with Deidda).