Publications

Bad Signals? Foreign Aid and Tax Morale across Sub-Saharan Africa 

World Development, Vol. 194: 107055 (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107055 (with Bove V. and Di Salvatore J.)

Containment or Bad Detection? Poor State Capacity Implications on Reported Covid-19 Cases

Journal of Institutional Economics. Vol. 21: e3 (2025). DOI: 10.1017/S1744137424000195 (with Magnani M.)

Safe at Last? LATE Effects of a Mass Immunization Campaign on Households’ Economic Insecurity

Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 70, 2: 466-497 (2024). DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12643 (with Pickard H.)

Arbitrageurs in the Bitcoin Ecosystem: Evidence from User-Level Trading Patterns in the Mt. Gox Exchange Platform

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 213: 251-270 (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.07.025 (with Bohme R., Dimitri N., Facchini A., and Saggese P.)

Tax Morale, Fiscal Capacity, and War

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 12388: 1-30 (2022). DOI: 10.1111/apce.12388 (with Teobaldelli D. and Ticchi D.)

Punishing or Rallying ‘Round the Flag? Heterogeneous Effects of Terrorism in South Tyrol

Kyklos, Vol. 75, 4: 536–563 (2022). DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12311

Backlash Against Affirmative Action: Evidence from the South Tyrolean Package 

European Economic Review, Vol. 137: 103802, (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103802 [accepted version] (with Di Lillo A.)

Sophisticated Electoral Accountability

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Vol. 92(2): 233-260, (2021). DOI: 10.1111/apce.12290 [accepted version]

Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks: Evidence from the 2015 Baga Massacre 

Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, Vol. 26(2), (2020). DOI: 10.1515/peps-2020-0009 [accepted version]

Collective Memories, Propaganda and Authoritarian Political Support

Economic Systems, Vol. 44(3): 100771, (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2020.100771 [accepted version] (with Rochlitz M.)

School Infrastructure Spending and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from the 2012 Earthquake in Northern Italy 

Economics of Education Review, Vol. 75: 101951, (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.101951 [accepted version] (with Bove V., D'Inverno G., and Modica M)

The Political Economy of Collective Memories: Evidence from Russian Politics

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 168: 229-250 (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.10.009 [accepted version] (with Rochlitz M.)

Selection after Terror: Evidence from 30 Years of Terrorism in South Tyrol

Economics Letters, Vol. 179: 62-65 (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.03.023 [accepted version]

Tax Morale, Aversion to Ethnic Diversity, and Decentralization 

European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 55: 204-223 (2018). DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2017.12.004 [accepted version][link to the online Appendix] (with Dell'Anno R. and Teobaldelli D.)

The Italian Primary School-Size Distribution and the City-Size: A Complex Nexus

Scientific Reports 4, 5301 (2015). DOI: 10.1038/srep05301 (with Di Clemente R., Buldyrev S.)

Impatto Territoriale delle Riforme dell’Istruzione sul Fabbisogno di Insegnanti

Italian Journal of Regional Science - Scienze Regionali, Vol. 12 (1): 87-114 (2013). DOI: 10.3280/SCRE2013-001005 (with Pennisi A.)

L’Evoluzione della Domanda Scolastica a Livello Provinciale

Scienza dell’Amministrazione Scolastica, 3: 5-13 (2011) (with Pennisi A.)