Research
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Battiston, P., Gamba, S., Santoro A. (2024) “Machine Learning and the Optimization of Prediction-Based Policies”, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 199. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162523007655
Gamba, S., Jakobbson, N., Svensson, M. (2022) “The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Prescription Drug Demand: Evidence from a Double-Difference Regression Kink Design”, The European Journal of Health Economics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10198-022-01446-w
Gamba, S., Magazzini, L., Pertile, P. (2021) “R&D and market size: who benefits from orphan drug regulation?”, Journal of Health Economics, 80, 102522. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629621001077
Battiston, P., Gamba, S., Rizzolli, M., Rotondi, V. (2021) “Lies have long legs. Cheating, public scrutiny and loyalty in teams”, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 94, 101732. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214804321000720
Florio, M., Gamba, S. (2021) “Biomed Europa: after the coronavirus, a public infrastructure to overcome the pharmaceutical oligopoly”, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 92(3): 387-409. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apce.12341
Battiston, P., Gamba, S. (2021) “COVID-19: R0 is lower where outbreak is larger”, Health Policy, 125(2): 141-147. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851020302724
Gamba, S., Pertile, P., Vogler, S. (2020) “The impact of managed entry agreements on pharmaceutical prices”, Health Economics, 29(S1): 47-62. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hec.4112?af=R
Battiston, P., Gamba, S. (2020) “When the two ends meet: an experiment on cooperation and social capital”, Economia Politica, 37: 911-940. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40888-020-00184-7
Battiston, P., Duncan, D., Gamba, S., Santoro, A. (2020) “Audit publicity and tax compliance: a natural experiment”, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 122(1): 81-108. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjoe.12330
Gamba S. (2017) “The effect of Intellectual Property Rights on domestic innovation in the pharmaceutical sector”, World Development, 99: 15-27. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X17302188
Battiston, P., Gamba, S. (2016) “The impact of social pressure on tax compliance: A field experiment”, International Review of Law and Economics, 46: 78-85. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0144818816300035
Altomonte, C., Gamba, S., Mancusi, M.L., Vezzulli, A. (2016) "R&D investments, Financing Constraints, Exporting and Productivity", Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 25(3): 283-303. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10438599.2015.1076203?journalCode=gein20
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Battiston, P., Gamba, S., Rotondi, V. (2019) “What does a young cheater look like? An innovative approach” in A. Bucciol and N. Montinari, “Dishonesty in Behavioral Economics”, Elsevier, Academic Press.
Canzian, G., Gamba, S., Rettore, E., Schizzerotto, A., Schüller, S. (2015) “Un’analisi degli effetti di alcune politiche industriali attuate dalla Provincia autonoma di Trento” in A. Schizzerotto et al., Rapporto sulla Situazione Economica e Sociale del Trentino.
D’Almeida, C., Camara, M., Essi M.J., Gamba, S., Coriat, B. (2010) "L’expérience camerounaise d’accès aux thérapies de seconde ligne" [The Cameroon experience in the access of second line treatments] in F. Eboko, C. Abé and C. Laurent, “Accès décentralisé au traitement du VIH/SIDA: Evaluation de l’expérience camerounaise”, Éditions EDK - ANRS Collection Sciences Socials, Paris.
REPORTS
Gamba, S., Magazzini, L., Pertile, P. (2023) “Improving public access to medicines and promoting pharmaceutical innovation. European pharmaceutical research and development. Could a public infrastructure overcome market failures?”, European Parliament Study: Panel for Future of Science and Technology, STOA.
Florio, M., Gamba, S., Pancotti, C. (2023) “Mapping of long-term public and private investments in the development of Covid-19 vaccines.”, European Parliament Study: Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies: Directorate-General for Internal Policies.
Canzian, G., Gamba, S., Rettore, E., Schizzerotto, A., Schüller, S. (2015) “Un’analisi degli effetti di alcune politiche industriali attuate dalla Provincia autonoma di Trento” in A. Schizzerotto et al., Rapporto sulla Situazione Economica e Sociale del Trentino.
WORKING PAPERS
“Spillovers of Pharmaceutical Price Regulations: evidence from the AMNOG Reform in Germany” (with P. Pertile and G. Righetti), Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 22/20, University of York, 2022.
“Free-Riding in Pharmaceutical Price Regulation: Theory and Evidence” (with P. Pertile and M. Forster), University of York Discussion Papers in Economics 18/04, 2018. Under review.
“What exactly is public in a public good game? A lab-in-the-field experiment” (with P. Battiston, M. Rizzolli and V. Rotondi), Dondena Working Papers 125, 2018. Under review.