My Research
Published Papers
Welfare Losses of Road Congestion (with Martin Adler, Antonio Russo and Jos van Ommeren) - 2021, Regional Science and Urban Economics
This paper received the prize for the Best Paper Overall at the ITEA Conference 2017
The Congestion Relief Benefit of Public Transit. Evidence from Rome (with Martin Adler, Antonio Russo and Jos van Ommeren) - 2021, Journal of Economic Geography
press: CESifo Newsletter
"Taxation and the location of targets," (joint with Wiji Arulampalam and Michael Devereux), 2019, Journal of Public Economics
"Was Brexit caused by the Unhappy and the Old?" (joint with Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Michela Redoano), 2019 , Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
press: FT, VOX, Independent
"Happy Voters," (joint with Eugenio Proto and Michela Redoano), 2017, Journal of Public Economics
"Wellbeing over 50" (with Paul Anand et al.), 2015, The Journal of Economics of Ageing
Working Papers
in Public Economics
"The Transmission of Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy?" (2020) (joint with Ben Lockwood, Michela Redoano, Daniel Sgroi, Francesco Porcelli, Emanuele Bracco). Ethical Approval granted. AEA RCT Registry Entry. TWERP working paper 1283 (R&R at Review of Economics & Statistics).
"The Effects of Social Capital on Government Performance and Turnover: Theory and Evidence from Italian Municipalities" ( 2020) (joint with Emanuele Bracco, Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli, Michela Redoano and Daniel Sgroi), TWERP working paper 1284 - (Under Revision).
"Global Spillovers of Taxation in the Online Advertising Market. Theory and Evidence from Facebook" (with A. Cuevas, R. Cuevas, A. Lassmann and A. Russo) CESIFO Working Paper No. 8149, May 2020 - (Under Revision).
winner of NYU NET Institute 2017 Summer Grant
"(Un)Intended Effects of Preferential Tax Regimes - The case of European Patent Boxes" (with Marko Koethenbuerger and Michael Stimmelmayr) CESIFO Working Paper No. 7061, June 2018 - (R&R at Journal of Public Economics).
Steuerliche Effekte Europäischer Patentboxen, KOF Analysen 1/2018, 77-86.
"The role of Toeholds and Capital Gain Taxes for Corporate Acquisition Strategies," (with Antonio Russo and Michael Stimmelmayr), CESIFO Working Paper No. 6151, October 2016
"Corporate Taxes and the Growth of the Firm," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1042, 2014, University of Warwick, Department of Economics. (new version coming soon)
in Political Economy
"Facebook and Electoral Accountability: the case of Italian Municipalities during the first wave of Covid Pandemic" (with Eleonora Alabrese, Francesco Porcelli, Michela Redoano and Antonio Russo) draft coming soon
"Politics in the Facebook Era. Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections" (with Angel Cuevas, Ruben Cuevas, Michela Redoano and Antonio Russo) - 2020 CESifo Working Paper No. 8235 - (Under Revision).
press: WIRED, VOX, ScienceDaily, TheRegister, ElPais, EurekAlert, Huffington Post
"Good Ad, Bad Ad. The Effect of Positive and Negative Political Content of Online Advertising" (2019) (with Michela Redoano and Antonio Russo). Ethical Approval granted. AEA RCT Registry entry. draft coming soon.
Other Topics
"Individual Welfare and Subjective Well-Being : Commentary Inspired by Sacks, Stevenson and Wolfers" (with Peter Hammond and Eugenio Proto) in ABCDE 2011: Development Challenges in a Postcrisis World, (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2013) pp. 339--353.
"Do Happier Britons Have More Income? First-Order Stochastic Dominance Relations (joint with Peter Hammond and Eugenio Proto), September 2014.
Ongoing Projects
"A formula Apportionment for Digital Platforms" (with Marko Koethenbuerger and Antonio Russo)
"Good Ad, Bad Ad. Effect of Positive and Negative Political Content of Online Advertising". (with Michela Redoano and Antonio Russo)
"Effect of Exchange Rate Movements on Profit Shifting. The Case of the Swiss Franc". (with Doina Radulescu), ELP