Research

Peer Reviewed Publications

• • • • • Strangers' Property, (Principal Investigator, with Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Matteo Rizzolli) forthcoming in the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization

  Featured at Private Law Theory;  Legal Theory Blog

• • • • • How Institutions Shape Morality (with Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci), 2023, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. 

Feateured at Law as Science blog

• • • • • Institutional Quality Shapes Cooperation with Out-group Strangers, 2022, Evolution and Human Behavior

        • Land Titling and Litigation (with Benito Arruñada and Michael Faure), 2022, The Journal of Law and Economics

        • The Virtuous Cycle of Property (Principal Investigator, with Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci), 2021, Review of Economics and Statistics

• Property Rights and Pro-social Behavior: Evidence from a Land Tenure Reform Implemented as a Randomized Control-Trial, 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 

• Multilevel Hidden Markov Models for Behavioral Data: a Hawk-and-Dove Experiment (with Antonello Maruotti and Matteo Rizzolli), 2021, Multivariate Behavioral Research 

  1. 1. 1. • The Ineffectiveness of ‘Observe and Report’ Patrols on Crime (with Jon Klick), 2021, International Review of Law and Economics

• Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law. Possession, Property and  Coordination in an Hawk–Dove experiment (with Matteo Rizzolli and Antonello Maruotti), 2021, Journal of Institutional Economics

• Ride Your Luck! A Field Experiment on Lottery-Based Incentives for Compliance (Principal Investigator, with Paolo Nicola Barbieri and Maria Bigoni), 2019 Management Science, 

• Shaping Tastes and Values through the Law: Law and Economics Meets Cultural Economics, 2019, Global Jurist 

• Towards a "Constitution" for Behavioral Policy-Making (with Michael Faure), 2018,  International Review of Economics 

• Compliance Externalities And The Role Model Effect on Law Abidance: Field and Survey-experimental Evidence  (with Sven Hoeppner), 2018, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

• Distributive Justice and the Comparison of Legal Rules: Quantify the "Price of Equity" (with Diogo Gerard), 2018, Review of Law & Economics

  1. 1. 1. • Social Influence on Third-Party Punishment: an Experiment (Principal Investigator, with Emanuela Carbonara), 2017 Journal of Economic Psychology

• Tax Lotteries: the Crowding-out of Tax Morale and Long-run Welfare Effects (with Daniela Wilks), 2016, Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues

• Shaping Tax Norms through Lotteries, 2015, International Review of Law and Economics.    Media Coverage: La Repubblica, Der Spiegel , The Slovak Spectator,  Slovakia Online      

• "Do You Want a Receipt?" Combating VAT and RST Evasion with Lottery Tickets (with Sigrid Hemels), 2013, Intertax

Working Papers & Registered Reports

• • • • • Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases (co-investigator Yang, X. [PI], Schulz, J. F. [PI], Schmidt, K. [PI], Dunham, Y. [PI], Kenny, A. R., Pfuhl [PI], G., Dalgar, I. [PI], Schulz, J. F. [PI], … Dunham, Y.[PI]), Registered Report accepted by Nature Human Behavior

        • Land, Law, and Fairness: How Property Rights Reform Influences Inequality Perceptions (Principal investigator, with Maria Bigoni), pre-analysis plan registered at AEA Randomized Control-Trial AEARCTR-0005311 - Revision requested by the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

        • Land Rights Institutions and the Scope of Cooperation (with Daniele Nosenzo and Jonathan Schulz) - Submitted

        • Social Tightness and Investment Decisions (with Benito Arruñada, Daniele Nosenzo, and Giorgio Zanarone), pre-analysis plan registered at AsPredicted https://aspredicted.org/kt823.pdf

Selected Works in Progress

• • • • • The Long-term Legacy of Gender-Equal Norms (with Marco Casari and Daniele Nosenzo)

        • Right to Roam, Right to Exclude and Property Value: Evidence from the UK CROW Act (with Andrea Geraci and Jon Klick)

        • Possession, Coordination, and Inequality: an Experiment (with Antonello Maruotti e Matteo Rizzolli)

        • Property and Social Networks (with Daniele Nosenzo and Jonathan Schulz)

        • Institutions, Aspirations, and Hope (with Hanna Frommel, Robert Lensink, and Daniele Nosenzo)