2025 Health shocks and food insecurity. The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in African Countries, co-authored with Donatella Lanari & Luca Pieroni. Applied Economics Letters.
2025 The price of war: A cross-country analysis on the conflict-growth nexus, co-authored with Andrea Crippa, Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. World Development.
2025 Food and peace? Exploring the link between conflict and food insecurity in Africa, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. Defence and Peace Economics.
2024 Conflict as a cause of migration, co-authored with Andrea Crippa, Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. Oxford Economic Papers.
2024 Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy, co-authored with Stefania Fontana. Public Choice, 1–37.
2023 Temporary employment and fertility in Italy: The effect of two labor market reforms in the early 2000s, co-authored with Luca Pieroni, Donatella Lanari & Margherita Scarlato. Economic Modelling,124.
2022 Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes: New Insights from a Lack of Language Proficiency in Italy, co-authored with Luca Pieroni, Donatella Lanari & Margherita Scarlato. Italian Economic Journal.
2022 The unintended effects of increasing temporary employment on health. The Italian case, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Donatella Lanari. The Italian Journal of the Economic, Demographic and Statistical Studies, 76(3).
2021 Job mobility and heterogeneous returns to apprenticeship training in Italy, co-authored with Michele Raitano, & Margherita Scarlato. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 60, 391-423.
2020 Military Spending, Corruption, Persistence and Long Run Growth, co-authored with Marco Lorusso, Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. Defence and Peace Economics (30-year Anniversary Special Issue), 31(4), 423-433.
2020 Social transfers and income inequality in OECD countries, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Margherita Scarlato. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 52, 313-327.
2019 The Political Dimension of Cash Transfers in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Perspective, co-authored with Margherita Scarlato. Politics & Policy, 47(6), 1125-1155.
2019 Military Expenditure, Endogeneity and Economic Growth, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. Defence and Peace Economics, 30(5), 509-524.
2019 Cash transfers, labour supply and gender inequality: Evidence from South Africa, co-authored with Margherita Scarlato. Feminist Economics, 25(4), 159-184.
2019 Modelling Corruption Perceptions: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asian Countries, co-authored with Luca Pieroni. Social Indicators Research, 142(1), 311-341.
2019 Knowledge externalities, innovation and growth in European countries: the role of institutions, co-authored with Margherita Scarlato. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 28(1), 82-99.
2018 Evaluating the effects of labour market reforms on job flows: The Italian case, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Margherita Scarlato. Economic Modelling, 68, 178-189.
2018 Does military spending stimulate growth? An empirical investigation in Italy, co-authored with Pierluigi Daddi & Luca Pieroni. Defence and Peace Economics, 29(4), 440-458.
2018 Do Cash Transfers Promote Food Security? The Case of the South African Child Support Grant, co-authored with MArgherita Scarlato & Silvia Napolitano. Journal of African Economies, 27(4), 430-456.
2017 Does military spending matter for long-run growth? co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. Defence and Peace Economics, 28(4), 429-436.
2016 Government Spending, Corruption and Economic Growth, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. World Development, 84(C), 190-205.
2016 Corruption and growth in Africa, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. European Journal of Political Economy, 43, 71--88.
2016 The political economy of Cash Transfers: a comparative analysis of Latin American and sub-Saharan African experiences, co-authored with Margherita Scarlato, Discussion Paper 6/2016. German Development Institute, Bonn.
2016 Addressing food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of cash transfers, co-authored with Francesco Burchi & Margherita Scarlato, Discussion Paper 17/2016. German Development Institute, Bonn.
2015 Innovation, Socio-institutional Conditions and Economic Growth in the Italian Regions, co-authored with Margherita Scarlato. Regional Studies, 49 (9) 1514-1534.
2015 Evaluating CCTs from a Gender Perspective: The Impact of Chile Solidario on Women's Employment Prospect, co-authored with Margherita Scarlato & Francesca Chiapparucci. Journal of International Development, 28, 177--197.
2014 Corruption and the effects of economic freedom, co-authored with Luca Pieroni. European Journal of Political Economy 29 (2013) 54-72.
2013 Assessing the Effects of Military Expenditure on Growth, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Peace and Conflict, edited by Stegios Skaperdas & Michelle Garfinkel, Oxford University Press.
2012 Corruption, Military Spending and Growth, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. Defence and Peace Economics, 23(6), 591-604.
2011 Optimal Military spending in the US: Time Series Analysis, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Paul John Dunne. Economic Modelling, 28(3), 1068-1077.
2009 Military Spending, Corruption and Growth, co-authored with Luca Pieroni. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 14(3).
2008 Can We Declare Military Keynesianism Dead?, co-authored with Luca Pieroni & Marco Lorusso. Journal of Policy Modeling, 30(5), 675-691.