Research
Selected Articles (Peer Review)
2024
Political favouritism and inefficient management: policy-makers’ birth town bias in EU quality certifications. Journal of Policy Modeling (with Vaquero-Piñeiro C.)
Co-payment exemption and healthcare consumption: quasi-experimental evidence from Italy. Empirical Economics (with Cirulli V. and Ventura M.)
2023
Predicting dropout from higher education: Evidence from Italy. Economic Modelling (with Delogu M. Lagravinese R. and Paolini D.)
Fiscal decentralization and income (re)distribution in OECD countries’ regions. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (with Pietrovito F. Pozzolo A. Scialà A.)
Female presence in local government and cost efficiency: the case of Italian municipalities. Regional Studies. (with Bucci V. and Ferrara G.)
Cohesion Policy Funds and local government autonomy: Evidence from Italian municipalities. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. (with Atella V. Braione M. and Ferrara G.)
Income-related unmet needs in European countries. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. (with Carnazza G. and Liberati P.)
Local government spending efficiency and fiscal decentralization: evidence from Italian municipalities. Applied Economics (with Bucci V. and Ferrara G.)
2022
Machine learning prediction of academic collaboration networks Scientific Reports (with Zinilli A. and Cerulli G.)
Income-related inequality in smoking habits: A comparative assessment in the European Union. Health Policy. (with Carnazza, G. and Liberati, P.)
Predicting agri-food quality across space: a Machine Learning model for the acknowledgment of Geographical Indications Food Policy (with Vaquero-Piñeiro C.)
The Impact of Political and Non-Political Officials on the Financial Management of Local Governments Journal of Policy Modeling
Digital artifacts reveal development and diffusion of climate research. Scientific Reports (with Carneiro B. and Sapkota T.)
The probability of multidimensional poverty: A new approach and an empirical application to EU-SILC data. Review of Income and Wealth (with Liberati P. and Tosi F.)
What is the importance of climate research? An innovative web-based approach to assess the influence and reach of climate research programs. Environmental Science and Policy (with Carneiro B., Läderach P., Schapendonk F., and Pacillo G.)
Regional Well Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries. The Journal of Economic Inequality (with Liberati P.)
2021
Predicting vaccine hesitancy from area-level indicators: A machine learning approach. Health Economics (with Carrieri V. and Lagravinese R.)
Wealth-adjusted Human Development Index. Journal of Cleaner Production, 318, 10.
Harnessing the power of machine learning analytics to understand food systems dynamics across development projects. Technological Forecasting and Social Change (with Garbero A. and Carneiro B.)
Predicting bankruptcy of local government: A machine learning approach, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (with Antulov-Fantulin N. and Lagravinese R.)
2020
Smoking, vaping, and income distribution: inequalities in new and old products. Health Policy (with Carnazza G. Liberati P. and Molinaro S.)
Beyond the weights: A multicriteria approach to evaluate Inequality in Education, The Journal of Economic Inequality (with Coco G. and Lagravinese R.)
Sustainable Development in Europe: A Multicriteria Decision Analysis, Review of Income and Wealth (with Schlitz F.)
2019
Income-Related Inequality in Gambling: Evidence from Italy. Review of Economics of the Household. (with Lagravinese R. Benedetti E. and Molinaro S.)
Measuring health inequality in US: a composite index approach. Social Indicators Research. (with Lagravinese R. and Liberati P.)
The impact of economic, social and cultural conditions on educational attainments. Journal of Policy Modeling. (with Lagravinese R. and Liberati P.)
Beyond CO2: A multi-criteria analysis of air pollution in Europe. Journal of Cleaner Production (with Caravaggio N.,Caravella S. and Ishizaka A.)
Measuring well-being by a multidimensional spatial model in OECD Better Life Index framework. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. (with Greco S. Ishizaka A. and Torrisi G.)
2018
Exploring Health Outcomes by Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis: An Application to Italian Regions. European Journal of Operational Research. (with Lagravinese R. and Liberati P.)
What matters most to people around the world? Retrieving Better Life Index priorities on Twitter. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. (with Maynard D.).
2017
The Cost of Well-Being, Social Indicators Research, 133(3), 985-1010. (with Patrizii V. and Pettini A.)
The ‘postcode lottery’ of the Italian Public Health bill analyzed with the Hierarchy Stochastic Multiobjective Acceptability Analysis. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. (with De Matteis D. and Ishizaka A.)
2015
Public Sector Contribution to Competitiveness, Italian Economic Journal,1, 3, 401-443. (with Patrizii V.)
Other Articles (Peer Review)
2022
Searching for the peak: Google Trends and the first COVID-19 wave in Italy International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics (with Brunori P. and Serlenga L.)
2021
Spatial dynamics across food systems transformation in IFAD investments: a machine learning approach . Food Security (with Garbero A. and Carneiro B.)
Cannabis Policy Changes and Adolescent Cannabis Use: Evidence from Europe, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (with Benedetti E. Brunori P. and Molinaro S.)
Decision-Making for Environmental Sustainability. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. (with Ishizaka A. Fukuyama H. and Genovese A.)
2020
Socioeconomic Status, Parental Education, School Connectedness and Individual Socio-Cultural Resources in Vulnerability for Drug Use among Students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (4), 1306. (with Gerra G. Benedetti E. Potente R. Cutilli A. and Molinaro S.)
Best-Worst PROMETHEE method for evaluating school performance in the OECD's PISA project. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. (with Ishizaka A.)
2019
Barriers to Effective Management of Hepatitis C Virus in People Who Inject Drugs: Evidence from Outpatient Clinics. Drug and Alcohol Review (with Molinaro S. Alberti A. Andreoni M. D'Egidio P. Leonardi C. Nava F. Pasqualetti P. and Villa, S.)
2018
The dimensions of hotel customer ratings that boost RevPAR. International Journal of Hospitality Management. (with Ishizaka A. Nieto-Garcia M. and Viglia G.)
2017
Visual Management of Performance with PROMETHEE Productivity Analysis, Soft Computing 1-14. (with Ishizaka A. and Mareschal B.)
The Impact of Environmental Factors on the Measurement of Managerial Efficiency in the Italian Waste Management Sector: Framework and Empirical Evidence, International Journal of Public Administration, 40(10), 820-832. (with Alfiero S., Elba F. and Esposito A.)
2013
Municipal Police Costs and Efficiency, Economia dei Servizi, 3, 221 – 238, ISSN: 1970-4860. (with Patrizii V.)
2012
Efficienza dei servizi pubblici comunali, Rivista di Studi sullo Stato, University of Florence, ISSN:2038-4882
Books and Chapters
2022
Valutare le politiche di coesione e le politiche della ricerca e dell’innovazione (con De Maggio M.). In Coletti R. and Filippetti A. (a cura di). UE la sfida per la coesione. Il Sole 24 ORE ISBN 9.791.254.832.649
2021
Quanto conta la differenza di genere nell'amministrazione comunale? (con Bucci V. e Ferrara G.). In Degni M. (a cura di). Rapporto Cà Foscari sui comuni 2021. La risposta dei comuni alla crisi pandemica. Castelvecchi Editore ISBN 978-88-3290-599-1
Prevedere i dissesti dei comuni: un approccio Machine Learning. (con Lagravinese R.). In Degni M. (a cura di). Rapporto Cà Foscari sui comuni 2021. La risposta dei comuni alla crisi pandemica. Castelvecchi Editore ISBN 978-88-3290-599-1
2020
Sulle relazioni tra dimensione, ambiente e performance finanziaria dei comuni italiani. (with Paradiso M. and Lagravinese R.) In Degni M. (a cura di). Rapporto Cà Foscari sui comuni 2020 . Castelvecchi Editore ISBN 978-88-3290-072-9
La Sanità nel Mezzogiorno tra crisi economica e vincoli finanziari. (with Lagravinese R.) In Coco G. e De Vincienti C. Una Questione Nazionale: Il Mezzogiorno da "problema" a "opportunità" . il Mulino Editore. ISBN: 8815285768
2019
Miti e realtà della condizione finanziaria dei comuni italiani: un approccio multi-criteriale. (with Paradiso M. and Lagravinese R.) In M. Degni. Rapporto Ca’ Foscari sui comuni 2018 (I comuni italiani dopo la grande crisi finanziaria). Castelvecchi Editore. ISBN: 978-88-3282-719-4
2018
Consumi d'azzardo 2017 - Rapporto di Ricerca sulla diffusione del gioco d’azzardo fra gli italiani attraverso gli studi IPSAD® ed ESPAD®Italia, (with Cerrai S. and Molinaro S.) CNR Edizioni, ISBN 978 88 8080 301 0
Working Papers
2022
Fiscal decentralization and efficiency: empirical evidence from Italian municipalities. SOSE - Working Papers - N°2 - 01/2022 (with Bucci V. and Ferrara G.)
2021
Did the COVID-19 Shock Impair the Stock Performance of Companies with Older CEOs?. SERIES Working Papers (with Ferri G. and Lagravinese R.)
Predicting vaccine hesitancy from area-level indicators: A machine learning approach. medRxiv (with Carrieri V. and Lagravinese R.)
CCAFS’ influence and reach in promoting CSA. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (with Carneiro B. Ruscica G. Ma Y. Pacillo G. Laderach P. and Kristjanson P.)
2020
A web analytics approach to map the influence and reach of CCAFS. CCAFS Working Paper no. 326. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) (with Carneiro B. Ruscica G. Ma Y. Pacillo G. Laderach P.)
Searching for the peak Google Trends and the monitoring of the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy Working Paper N. 05/2020 DISEI, Università degli Studi di Firenze (with Brunori P.)
The probability of multidimensional poverty in the European Union. Quaderni di Dipartimento. Serie Ricerche ISSN 1973-9346. Bologna, IT: Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche “Paolo Fortunati” - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, p. 40. (with Liberati P. and Tosi F.)
2018
Measuring well-being by a multidimensional spatial model in OECD Better Life Index framework. MPRA Paper No. 83526. (with Greco S. Ishizaka A. and Torrisi G.)
Is the Grass Always Greener on the Other Side of the fence? Composite Index of Well-Being Taking into Account the Local Relative Appreciations in Better Life Index. MPRA Paper No. 82718. (with Greco S. Ishizaka A. and Torrisi G.)
2017
How does Economic, Social and Cultural Status affect the efficiency of educational attainments? A comparative analysis on PISA results. No. 217. Departmental Working Papers of Economics, Roma Tre University. (with Lagravinese R. and Liberati P.)
Exploring Health Outcomes by Stochastic Multi-Objective Acceptability Analysis: An application to Italian Regions. GEN Working Paper B 2017 – 3. (with Lagravinese R. and Liberati P.)
2016
Italian Saving Banks efficiency, is unity strength? Bank groups versus stand-alone Conference Proceedings, 34th International Conference Mathematical Methods in Economics, MME 2016. (with Alfiero S. Elba F. and Esposito A.)
2015
The Cost of Well-Being, CESifo Working Paper No. 5463. (with Pettini A. and Patrizii V.)
2014
Efficienza e Qualità della Vita, Working Papers – Economics, WP12/2014, Department of Sciences for Economics and Management, University of Florence. (with Patrizii V. and Pettini A.)
Eco-efficienza con Data Envelopment Analysis, Working Papers – Economics, WP06/2014, Department of Sciences for Economics and Management, University of Florence.
Editorial Activity
Editor: Economics & Statistics Discussion Papers
Guest editor: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Special issue Decision Making for Environmental Sustainability
Refereeing Activity
Social Indicators Research, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, European Journal of Operational Research, ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries, Journal of Business Research, Tourism Review, Communications in Statistics, Preventive Medicine, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Operational Research, International Journal of Hospitality Management; Sustainability; International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics; Land Use Policy; Structural Change and Economic Dynamics; Economics and Human Biology; Italian Economic Journal; Health Policy; Health Economics; Economia Politica; Urban Studies; Scientometrics; Energy Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.