RESEARCH
RESEARCH
Articles in refereed journals
Who Prefers Guessing to Admitting They Don’t Know? Measurement Error in Financial Literacy Surveys, Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization (2025) 233, 107003 (with G. Bertola).
Financial literacy and risk protection during the Covid-19 pandemic, Italian Economic Journal (2025) 11: 645-666 (with G. Bertola).
Political participation and financial education: Understanding personal and collective tradeoffs for a better citizenship, Economics Letters 244 111943 (2024).
Financial education: from better personal finance to improved citizenship, Journal of Financial Literacy and Wellbeing 1 (2023) , 12-27 (with E. Fornero).
Digital and financial literacy as determinants of digital payments and personal finance , Economics Letters 213 (2022) .
Voter Turnout and City Performance: Evidence from Italian Municipalities, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organizations 37:1 (2021), 168-197 (with F. Revelli) .
Voting in the aftermath of a pension reform: the role of financial literacy, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 18:1 (2019), 1-30 (with E. Fornero). Supporting material: online appendix.
Inequality and the finance you know: does economic literacy matter?, Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 35:1 (2018), 183-205.
Costly voting, turnout, and candidate valence, Economics Letters 158 (2017), 10-13 (with F. Revelli).
Labor market institutions and household consumption insurance within OECD countries, The World Economy 39:6 (2016), 755-771.
Reforms, Finance, and Current Accounts, Review of International Economics 23:3 (2015), 469-488 (with G. Bertola).
Sharing risk within and across countries: the role of labor market institutions, Economic Systems 37:3 (2013), 449-461.
Finance, Governments, and Trade, Review of World Economics 149:2 (2013), 273-294 (with G. Bertola).
Economic literacy, inequality, and financial development, Economics Letters 118 (2013), 74-76.
Current account imbalances, trade and finance, Applied Economics Letters 19:2 (2012), 399-402.
Openness, Financial Markets, and Policies: Cross-Country and Dynamic Patterns, Annals of Economics and Statistics 95/96 (2009), 167-182 (with G. Bertola).
Working papers, projects and work in progress
"Civic Engagement and Government Spending: Lessons from Global Warming," October 2023 SSRN (with Agnese Sacchi), R&R.
"The fiscal social contract and understanding of the public budget in Italy", PI
"Financial literacy and crypto currencies in Italy"
Appeared in a working paper series, no further work planned or published with a different title
"Financial Literacy and Resilience When Respondents Prefer Guessing to Admitting Ingnorance" published in JEBO as "Who Prefers Guessing to Admitting They Don’t Know? Measurement Error in Financial Literacy Surveys"
"Whence policy? Government Policies, Finance, and Economic Integration", CEPR Discussion Paper 7820 (with G.Bertola).
"Employment Protection Across Diverse Countries: Insights from EPLex", commisioned by the ILO (with G. Bertola).