Published papers

• Shining with the stars: competition, screening, and concern for coworkers' quality (2024), with Helmuth Cremer (Toulouse School of Economics), Games and Economic Behavior, 44, 250-283.
  Media coverage: TSE-SCOR
  
  

• Gender wage and longevity gaps and the design of retirement systems (2023), with Helmuth Cremer  (Toulouse School of Economics) and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur  (Toulouse School of Economics), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 209, 263-287.
  Media coverage: TSE-Mag; Topics in Public Economics
  
  

• The Gender Gaps in Time-Use within Italian Households during 2002-2014 (2022), with Cesare Di Timoteo (Glovo) and Chiara Monfardini (University of Bologna), Italian Economic Journal. Previous version: May 2021
  Media coverage: Lavoce.info

• Caregivers in the family: daughters, sons, and social norms (2020), with Helmuth Cremer (Toulouse School of Economics) and Kerstin Roeder (University of Augsburg), European Economic Review 130, 103589. 

• Envy in Mission-Oriented Organizations  (2020), with Ester Manna (Universidad de Barcelona), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 179, 395-424.

• Having it all, for all: child-care subsidies and income distribution reconciled (2020), with Helmuth Cremer (Toulouse School of Economics) and Kerstin Roeder (University of Augsburg), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 176, 188-211.

• Research funding and price negotiation for new drugs (2020), with Izabela Jelovac (University of Lyon, CNRS, GATE), Health Economics 29(S1), 83-96. 

• On the Credibility of Ethical Banking (2019), with Piero Tedeschi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 166, 381-402. 

• The gender gap in informal child care: theory and some evidence from Italy (2019), with Helmuth Cremer (Toulouse School of Economics) and Chiara Monfardini (University of Bologna), Economia Italiana 2019/3, 37-71. Special issue on Gender Economics (Guest Editor: Paola Profeta).

WP version: CEPR Discussion Paper DP13782  https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13782

• Till taxes do us part: tax penalties or bonuses and the marriage decision (2019), with Helmuth Cremer (Toulouse School of Economics) and Kerstin Roeder (University of Augsburg), European Economic Review 118, 37-50. 

• Competition for Talent when Firms' Mission Matters (2019), with Nadia Burani (University of Bologna), GAMES and Economic Behavior 116, 128-151. On line appendix.

• Women's Career Choices, Social Norms and Child Care Policies (2018), with Helmuth Cremer (Toulouse School of Economics) and Kerstin Roeder (University of Augsburg), Journal of Public Economics 168, 162-173. Video!

• Product Differentiation with Multiple Qualities (2018), with Albert Ma (Boston University),  International Journal of Industrial Organization 61, 380-412. 

Selected by the Editorial Committee of the Antitrust Writing Awards for the best articles on competition published in peer-reviewed journals in 2018.

• Productivity Crowding-Out in Labor Markets with Motivated Workers (2018), with Nadia Burani (University of Bologna) and Davide Raggi (University of Bologna), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 151, 199-218. 

• Pool Size and the Sustainability of Optimal Risk-Sharing Agreements (2017), with Renaud Bourlès (Ecole Centrale Marseille, Egim, Idep), Dominique Henriet (Ecole Centrale Marseille, Egim, Idep), Giuseppe Pignataro (University of Bologna), Theory and Decision 82(2): 273–303.

• Competition and Screening with Motivated Health Professionals (2016), with Nadia Burani (University of Bologna), Journal of Health Economics 50: 358-371. On line appendix

• Screening Workers for Ability and Motivation (2016), joint with Nadia Burani (University of Bologna), Oxford Economic Papers 68(2): 627-650. 

Ranking second among the first five highly cited articles from Oxford Economic Papers  2018 

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• Credit Markets with Ethical Banks and Motivated Borrowers (2015), joint with Piero Tedeschi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Review of Finance 19(3): 1223-1279.

• Human Health Care and Selection Effects. Understanding Labour Supply in the Market for Nursing (2012), joint with Gilberto Turati (University of Torino), Health Economics 21(4): 477- 483.

• Genetic Information: Comparing Alternative Regulatory Approaches when Prevention Matters (2011), joint with Dominique Henriet (Ecole Centrale Marseille, Egim, Idep), Journal of Public Economic Theory 13(1): 23-46.

• Emotional Decision-Makers and Anomalous Attitudes towards Information (2010), joint with Rosella Levaggi (University of Brescia), Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 40: 255-280.

• With A Little Help From My Enemy: Comparative Advertising as a Signal of Quality (2009), joint with Paolo Garella (University of Milan) and Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim); Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 18(4): 1071-1094.

• Emotions in Physician Agency (2008), joint with Rosella Levaggi (University of Brescia), Health Policy 88: 1-14.

• The Signaling Effect of Tax Policy (2006), joint with Bertrand Villeneuve (Université Paris-Dauphine), Journal of Public Economic Theory 8(4): 611-630.

• Comparative Advertising and Competition Policy (2006), joint with Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim), in Recent Developments in Antitrust: Theory and Evidence, edited by Jay Pil Choi, MIT Press, chapter 8: 215-263.

• Price vs Quantity in Health Insurance Reimbursement (2006), International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 6(3): 191-213.

• Supplementary Insurance with Ex-post Moral Hazard: Efficiency and Redistribution (2006), Les Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, N°83-84: 295-325.

• Reimbursing Preventive Care (2004), the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory 29(2): 165-186.

• The Public-Private Mix in Health Insurance (2003), in Antitrust, Regulation and Competition,M.Baldassarri and L.Lambertini eds., Palgrave Macmillan Publishers Ltd for the series: Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory & Policy, 217-248.