Research
Research interests
Macroeconomics (Job Polarization, Economic growth, Structural Change), Spatial Economics (Spatial allocation of heterogenous workers and activities), Political Economics (Political Selection)
Recent Working Papers
Saving Behavior and the Intergenerational Allocation of Leisure Time (joint with Xavier Raurich), CRENoS Working Paper 23/15.
A note on Employment and Wage Polarization in the U.S. (joint with with Alessio Moro and Michelle Rendall), CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15797 (pdf)
Work in progress
To shirk or not to shirk? The economic determinants of Party Discipline (joint with Andrea Caria and Luca Deidda)
Spatial Sorting and Occupational Mobility (joint with Elisa Dienesch and Alessio Moro)
Working from home: the role of monitoring and performance-based pay (joint with Luca Deidda and Simone Nobili)
Articles in Refereed International Journals
2023 - Choosing not to Lead: Political Selection and Monetary Incentives in Local Parliamentary Systems, European Journal of Political Economy, (in press) (pdf) (published version) with Andrea Caria and Marco Nieddu
2023 - Spatial Polarization, Economic Journal, 133, 30-69 (link) (pdf) with Elisa Dienesch, Alessio Moro and Michelle Rendall. Winner of the Royal Economic Society prize for the best paper published in The Economic Journal in 2023. Motivation here. Media Coverage: faculti.net; Dialogues Economique
2021 - The Role of Gender in Employment Polarization (Open access here!), International Economic Review, 62, 1655-1691 with Alessio Moro and Michelle Rendall. Media Coverage: voxeu
2020 - Insularity and the Development of a Local Network: a Simulation Model applied to the Italian Railway System (Published version) pdf - Economia Politica, 37, 683–702 (with Luisanna Cocco, Katiuscia Mannaro, Michele Marchesi e Francesco Pigliaru)
2018 - Catch me if you learn: Development-specific Education and Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 22, 1652-1694 (with Fabio Manca) (Published version) (updated wp)
Media Coverage: OECD - Skill and Work
2017 - Reward from Public Office and Selections of Politicians by Parties, European Journal of Political Economy, 47, 1-18 (published version) (Updated wp) (with Luca Deidda)
2014 - Is Agglomeration really good for growth? Global efficiency, interregional equity and uneven growth Journal of Urban Economics, 84(3), 9-22 (published version) (updated wp) (with Francesco Mureddu)
2013 - Structural Change and Growth in a NEG model, Review of Development Economics, 17(2), 182-200 (published version) (updated wp+appendix) (with Francesco Mureddu)
2012 - Agglomeration and Growth with Endogenous Expenditure Shares, Journal of Regional Science, 52(2), 324-360 (published version) (updated wp) (with Francesco Mureddu)
2009 - Marshall's Ceteris Paribus in a Dynamic Framework, Metroeconomica, 60(1), 24-53 (published version)
2007 - Tourism Specialization and Environmental Sustainability in a Dynamic Economy, Tourism Economics, 13(4), 553-582. (published version)
Editor
2010 - The Economics of Sustainable Tourism, Taylor and Francis, London UK (with Anil Markandya and Michael McAleer) (page)
Chapters in books
2010 - Pollution Adverse Tourists and Growth, in Cerina F, Markandya A., McAleer M. (eds.), "The Economics of Sustainable Tourism", Routledge, London UK, pp. 79-91 (with Sauveur Giannoni)
2008 - Tourism, Growth and Pollution Abatement, in R. Brau, A. Lanza, S. Usai (eds), "Tourism and sustainable economic development: macroeconomic models and empirical methods", pp. 3-27, Edward Elgar, Chelthenham UK.
2007 - Agglomeration and Growth: a critical Assessment, in "New Directions in Economic Geography" (edited by Bernard Fingleton), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK. (with Francesco Pigliaru)
2006 - Ceteris Paribus, in ”The Elgar Companion to Alfred Marshall" Tiziano Raffaelli, Marco Dardi and Giacomo Becattini (eds), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK.
Unpublished Working Papers
2015 - Is Insularity a locational disadvantage? Insights from the New Economic Geography, CRENoS Working Paper 15-21 (pdf)
2015 - Trade Integration, Welfare and Horizontal Multinationals: a three-country model, Discussion papers 15109, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) (pdf) (with Tadashi Morita and Kazuhiro Yamamoto)
2013 - Integration and Welfare with Horizontal Multinationals, CRENoS Working Paper n. 13/07 (with Tadashi Morita and Kazuhiro Yamamoto)
2012 - Endogenous Growth and Sustainable Tourism, CRENoS Working Paper n. 12/34
2002 - Do we need more time for leisure? CRENoS Working Paper, n. 02/03 (with Luca Deidda)