Research

Publications

1. Colagrossi, M., Deiana, C., Dragone, D., Geraci, A., Giua, L., Iori, E. (2023). Intimate partner violence and help-seeking: The role of femicide news. Journal of Health Economics, 87, wp 1169 DSE-Unibo.

2. Dragone, D., Vanin, P. (2022). Substitution effects in intertemporal problems. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14(3), 791-809. wp 1147 DSE-Unibo.

3. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A. (2022). Emission taxation, green innovations and inverted-U aggregate R&D efforts in a linear state differential game. Research in Economics, 76, 62-68.

4. Caputo, M., Dragone, D. (2022). Rational agents might be overweight, underweight, or the physiologically optimal weight. Economics Letters, 210.

5. Nie, P., Wang, L., Dragone, D., Lu, H., Sousa-Poza, A., Ziebarth, N. (2022). The better you feel, the harder you fall: Health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. China Economic Review, 71.

6. Dragone, D., Raggi, D. (2021). Resolving the milk addiction paradox. Journal of Health Economics, 77, wp 1144 DSE-Unibo.

7. Arni, P., Dragone, D., Goette, L., Ziebarth, N. (2021). Biased health perceptions and risky health behaviors: Theory and evidence. Journal of Health Economics, 76,  wp 1146 DSE-Unibo.

8. Dragone, D. (2020). Social Distancing and Mental Health, in G. Bellettini and A. Goldstein (eds.), The Italian Economy After COVID-19, Bononia University Press, 91-102.

9. Dragone, D., Strulik, H. (2020). Negligible senescence: An economic life cycle model for the future. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 171, 264-285.

10. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L. (2020). Equilibrium existence in the Hotelling model with convex production costs and costly locations. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 84.

11. Dragone, D., Prarolo, G., Vanin, P., Zanella, G. (2019). Crime and the legalization of recreational marijuana. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 159, 488-50.

12. Dragone, D., Ziebarth, N. (2017). Economic development, novelty consumption, and body weight: Evidence from the East German transition to capitalism. Journal of Health Economics, 51, 41-65.

13. Dragone, D., Galeotti, F., Orsini, R. (2017). Non-Monetary Feedback Induces More Cooperation: Students and Workers in a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism. Revue Économique, 68(5), 793-808.

14. Dragone, D., Manaresi, F., Savorelli, L. (2016). Obesity and smoking: can we kill two birds with one tax? Health Economics, 25, 1464-1482. (Republished in the 2022 Health Economics virtual issue "The Demand for Health Turns Fifty").

15. Cawley, J., Dragone, D., von Hinke Kessler Scholder, S. (2016). The demand for cigarettes as derived from the demand for weight loss: A theoretical and empirical investigation. Health Economics, 25, 8-23. (Republished in the 2022 Health Economics virtual issue "The Demand for Health Turns Fifty").

16. Casari, M., Dragone, D. (2015). Choice reversal without temptation: A dynamic experiment on time preferences. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 50(2), 119-140. Listen to Sample Noise 

17. Dragone, D., Galeotti, F., Orsini, R. (2015). Students, temporary workers and co-op workers: An experimental investigation on social preferences. Games, 6, 79-123.

18. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Leitmann, G., Palestini, A. (2015). Hamiltonian potential functions for differential games. Automatica, 62, 134-138.

19. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A. (2015). The interplay between profit and environmental taxation: incentives to create RJVs for green innovations, in M.G. Fikru and M. Insall (eds.), Economics of Environmental Policy in Oligopolistic Markets, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York. 21-38.

20. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A. (2014). Regulating environmental externalities through public firms: a differential game. Strategic Behavior and the Environment, 4(1), 15-40.

21. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A., Tampieri, A. (2013). On the optimal number of firms in the commons: Cournot vs. Bertrand. Mathematical Economics Letters, 1(1), 25-34.

22. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A. (2013). The incentive to invest in environmental-friendly technologies: dynamics makes a difference, in J. Crespo Cuaresma, T. Palokangas, A. Tarasyev (eds.), Green Growth and Sustainable Development, Springer, 14, 165-188.

23. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A. (2012). Static and dynamic best-response potential functions for the non-linear Cournot game. Optimization, 61(11), 1283-1293.

24. Dragone, D., Savorelli, L. (2012). Thinness and obesity: a model of food consumption, health concerns and social pressure.  Journal of Health Economics, 31(1), 243-256.

25. Bigoni, M., Dragone, D. (2012). Effective and efficient experimental instructions. Economics Letters, 17(2), 460–463.

26. Casari, M., Dragone, D. (2011). On negative time preferences. Economics Letters, 111(1), 37-39.

27. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A. (2011). On the feedback solution of a differential oligopoly game with capacity adjustment. IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 44(1),  6795-6799.

28. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A. (2010). The Leitmann-Schmitendorf advertising game with n players and time discounting. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 217, 1010 - 1016.

29. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Leitman, G., Palestini, A. (2010). A stochastic optimal control model of pollution abatement. Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory, 10, 117-124.

30. Dragone, D. (2009). A rational eating model of binges, diets and obesity. Journal of Health Economics, 28(4), 799-804.

31. Dragone, D. (2009). I am getting tired: effort and fatigue in intertemporal decision-making. Journal of Economic Psychology, 30(4), 552-562.

32. Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A. (2009). Dynamic oligopoly with capital accumulation and environmental externality, in J. Crespo Cuaresma, T. Palokangas, A. Tarasyev (eds.), Dynamic Systems, Economic Growth and the Environment, Springer, 197-214.

33. Moretti, L., Dragone, D., di Pellegrino, G. (2009). Reward and social valuation deficits following ventromedial prefrontal damage. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(1), 128-140.

34. Dragone, D. (2007). Should one sell domestic firms to foreign ones? A tale of delegation, acquisition and collusion. Rivista di Politica Economica, 5-6, 85-113.

ONGOING PAPERS

Cawley, J. Dragone, D. (2023). Harm Reduction: When Does It Improve Health, and When Does it Backfire? NBER WP 30926. submitted

Dragone, D., Vanin, P. (2021). Determinants of income and price effects in the short and in the long run. submitted

Dragone, D., Migali, G., Zucchelli E. (2021). High school dropout and the intergenerational transmission of crime. IZA DP 14129. submitted

Bigoni, M., Dragone., D., Luchini, S., Prati, A. (2020). Estimating time preferences for leisure. CEPR DP 16367. submitted

OLDER PAPERS

Dragone, D., Raggi, D. (2018) . Testing rational addiction: When lifetime is uncertain, one lag is enough. wp 1119 DSE-Unibo

Dragone, D., Manaresi, F., Savorelli, L. (2013). Tobacco taxes and smoking bans impact differently on obesity and eating habits. wp 878 DSE-Unibo

Dragone, D., Manaresi, F., Savorelli, L. (2012). Multiple rational addictions and the effect of price on consumption. wp FarmaFactoring Foundation

Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Palestini, A. (2008). A class of best-response potential games. wp 635 DSE-Unibo

Dragone, D., Lambertini, L., Mantovani, A. (2007) Antitrust guidelines: A simple operational method for evaluating horizontal mergers. wp 591 DSE-Unibo

Dragone, D., Viviani, M. (2007). Identity and the dynamics of preferences. wp 595 DSE-Unibo

IN ITALIAN

Dragone, D. (2014). Microcredito: formule, applicazioni, prospettive, in L.Brunori (ed.), La Complessa Identità del Microcredito, Mulino, 23-40.

Dragone D. (2011). L'impazienza dell'homo oeconomicus: proposta per un'analisi interdisciplinare. Paradoxa, 5(1), 95-102, paper

Dragone, D., Viviani, M. (2008). Cultura organizzativa e sostenibilità della governance multistakeholder. Impresa Sociale, 4, 163-192, paper