Working Papers

• • Ancient Epics in the Television Age: Mass Media, Identity, and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India (with Ahmed R., Brimble P., Kovvuri A. and Yang D.) [2025]

• • The Democracy Dividend: How Early Exposure to Democracy Shapes Health Outcomes (with F. Maggio and D. Rohner) [2024] 

• • Education and Conflict: Evidence from a policy experiment in Indonesia (with D. Rohner) [2019] 

Publications

• • All is not lost: Organized Crime and Social Capital Formation (with P. Buonanno and  I. Ferrari) - Journal of Public Economics [2024]

• • Reconciliation Narratives: The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War (with E. Esposito, T. Rotesi and M. Thoenig) - American Economic Review [2023] 

• • Ballot or Bullet: The Impact of UK’s Representation of the People Act on Peace and Prosperity (with A. Marcucci and D. Rohner) - Economic Journal [2023]

  • Threat of Taxation, Stagnation and Social Unrest: Evidence from 19th Century Sicily (with G. Lax-Martinex and D. Rohner) - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization [2022]

  • Trouble Underground: Demand shocks and the labor supply behavior of New York City taxi drivers  -  Italian Economic Journal [2021]

  • Random interactions in the Chamber: Legislators’ behavior and political distance - Journal of Public Economics [2018]

• • Choosing the open sea: The cost to the UK of staying out of the euro - Journal of International Economics [2017] [replication package]

  • The costs of firm exit and labour market policies (with D. Andrews and  I. Ferrari) - The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy [2019]

  • The demand for safe assets in emerging economies and global Imbalances (with R. Ahrend and C. Schwellnus) - The World Economy [2018]

  • Credit, endogenous collateral and risky assets: A DSGE model  (with M. Falagiarda) - International Review of Economics & Finance [2017]

Policy Papers

• • Digitalisation of financial services, access to finance and aggregate economic performance (with Bontadini F., Filippucci F., Jona-Lasinio C., Nicoletti G.)  [OECD WP]

  • Spillovers from the global productivity frontier and public policy (with D. Andrews and S. Albrizio)  [OECD WP]

Chapter in Book

• • Memory and nation building: The dangers of common enemy narratives (with E. Esposito, T. Rotesi and M. Thoenig) in Nation Building Big Lessons from Successes and Failures - CEPR Press [2023] 

Popular Press 

• • (EN) Memory and reconciliation: The dangers of common enemy narratives (with  E. Esposito, T. Rotesi and M. Thoenig), VoxEU [2021]

  • (EN) Random seating in Parliaments (with L. Carson), newDemocracy [2019]

  • (EN) Books not bullets (with D. Rohner), VoxEU [2019]

  • (EN) Italy and the Euro: Myths and realities (with P. Manasse and T. Nannicini), VoxEU [2014]

  • (ES) Más dinero para derrotar la deflación, elEconomista [2010]

  • (IT) All'Italia conviene la moneta unica? (with P. Manasse and T. Nannicini), Linkiesta

E-Book 

• • (IT) Gli effetti dell'Euro sull'economia italiana (with P. Manasse and T. Nannicini), ed. Linkiesta