Research

Economics of Crime

• Mafia Wears Out Women in Power: Evidence from Italian Municipalities, (with A. Baraldi and M. Stimolo) Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization 193 (2022) 213-236

• Self-Selecting Candidates or Compelling Voters: How Organized Crime Affects Political Selection, (with A. Baraldi and M. Stimolo) European Journal of Political Economy 71 (2022) 102133

• Optimal leniency and the organization design of group delinquency, (with S. Piccolo and P. Roberti),  Journal of Public Economics 191 (2020) 104262

• Criminal mobility, fugitives and extradition rules, (with R. Crinò and S. Piccolo)  Journal of Public Economic Theory 23 (2021) 69-104 

• Marginal deterrence at work, (with R. Crino’ and S. Piccolo) Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization 166 (2019) 586-612

• Organized crime and the bright side of subversion of law, (with A. Gamba and S. Piccolo) Journal of Public Economics 159 (2018) 79-88

• Organized crime, insider information and optimal leniency, (with S. Piccolo) Economic Journal 127 (2017) 2504–2524

• The economics of counterinsurgency: an asymmetric information approach, (with Gülen Karakoç-Palminteri and S. Piccolo) Revue Economique 69 (2018) 949-972.

• Accomplice-witnesses and organized crime: theory and evidence from Italy, (with A. Acconcia, S. Piccolo and P. Rey), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 116 (2014) 1116-59

• Legal standars, enforcement and corruption, (with M. Pagano) Journal of the European Economic Association 8(5) (2010) 1104-32

• Criminal networks, market externalities and optimal leniency, (with S. Piccolo and P. Roberti) CSEF working paper n.519 (2018) 

• Mafia infiltration and machine learning, (with M. Aria, L. Baraldi, I. Marino e M. Stimolo)

• An Unintended consequence of gender balance laws: mafias rise political violence, (with A. Baraldi, E. Papagni e M. Stimolo)

• Has mafia infiltrated Italian firms during the Covid-19 crisis?, (with R. De Luca, R. Greco e T. Oliviero)

Economics of Prostitution

• Commercial sex and health (with F. Russo) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics Marciano and Ramello ed. Springer (2017)

• Optimal prostitution policy, (with F. Russo) in Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution S. Cunningham and M. Shah eds., Oxford University Press (2016) 332-347

• Laws and stigma: the case of prostitution, (with F. Russo) European Journal of Law and Economics 40 (2015) 209-223

• Regulating prostitution: an health risk approach, (with F. Russo) Journal of Public Economics 121 (2015) 14-31

• Sex in the City: Capitalizing Regulated Prostitution into Housing Prices, (con M. Puca, F. De Rossa Gisimundo and R. Parchet) SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3857831 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3857831 (2022)

Behavioral Economics

• Education, taxation and the perceived effects of sin good consumption, (with A. Menichini and M. Romano) International Tax and public Finance (2021) 1-19

• Taxing and regulating vices, (with A. Menichini and M. Romano) Scandinavian Journal of Economics 122 (2020) 622-647

• Contracts with wishful thinkers, (with A. Menichini and M. Romano) Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 24 (2015) 863-886

• Parents, television and cultural change, (with Esther Hauk) Economic Journal 124 (2014) 1040-1065

• Reciprocity in the principal multiple agent model, (with G. De Marco) B.E. journal of Theoretical Economics 14 (2014) 1-39

• Discounting and expropriation risk, (with M. Padula) Research in Economics 67 (2013) 145-156

• Partnership, reciprocity and team design, (with G. De Marco) Research in Economics 67 (2013) 39-58

• A simple impossibility result in behavioral contract theory, (with A. Menichini and M. Romano) Economic Letters 113 (2011) 307-309

• Fairness, consumer consciousness and the welfare of less developed countries, Global Economy Journal 8(1) (2008) Article 7

Environmental Economics

• Regional heterogeneity in Italy: transport devolution and corruption (with F. Carlucci, A. Cirà, G. Ioppolo and T. Yigitcanlar) Land Use Policy 66 (2017) 28-33

• Uncertainty and the cost of reversal, The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review,30 (2005) 119-128

• Hormone beef, chlorinated chicken and international trade, (with G. Calzolari) European Economic Review,49 (2005) 145-172

• Looking for a guide to protect the environment: the development of the Precautionary Principle, Journal of Economic Surveys 17 (5) (2003) 629-643

• Organismi geneticamente modificati ed incertezza scientifica: una prospettiva internazionale, (with G. Calzolari),Mercati Concorrenza e Regole n.2 agosto, (2001) 319-335

• Self–Protection, information and the Precautionary Principle, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory 25 (2000) 179-187

Antitrust and Corporate Governance

• Whistleblowers and financial frauds, (with P. Buccirossi and G. Spagnolo), European Journal of Law and Economics 51(3) (2021) 411-431

• Public policies in investment intensive industries, (with M. Polo) in Analysis of Competition Policy and Sectoral Regulation now publishers Inc, Boston - Delft, (2014)

• Antitrust in innovative industries: the optimal legal standards, (with M. Polo) International Review of Law and Economics 40 (2014) 36-50

• Corporate fraud, governance and auditing, (with M. Pagano) Inaugural Issue of the Review of Corporate Financial Studies 1 (2012) 109-133

• Incentives to innovate and social harm: laissez-faire, authorization or penalties?, (with M. Pagano and M. Polo) Journal of Public Economics 95(7-8) (2011) 864-876

• Optimal regulation of auditing, (with M. Pagano) CESifo Economic Studies 53(3) (2007) 363-388

Other in Law/Public Economics

• Costly pretrial agreements, (with L. Anderlini and L. Felli) Journal of Legal Studies 48 (2019) 159-188

• Cashless payments and tax evasion, (with F. Russo) European Journal of political Economy 55 (2018) 36-43

• Tax evasion and the tax on cash, (with F. Russo) Fiscal Studies 39 (2018) 343-364

• Legal institutions, innovation and growth, (with L. Anderlini, L. Felli and A. Riboni) International Economic Review 54 (2013) 937-956

• The cost of rights: an economic analysis, (with M. Pagano), Diritto e Questioni Pubbliche, n.4 dicembre (2004) http://www.dirittoequestionipubbliche.org/

• Fines for unequal societies, (with G. Dari Mattiacci and F. Russo) Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 34, 2022, Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 08, 2022, SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4230799 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4230799 

Other Publications

• Preference-based hiring decisions and incentives, (with F. Gioia), Journal of the Economic Science Association (2023) 1-14

• Consumption and Income Expectations during Covid-19, (with T. Jappelli and T. Oliviero), Review of Economics of the Household (2023) 1-22

• What drives segregation? Evidence from social interactions among students, (with E. Calvano and A. Scognamiglio), Economics of Education Review 90 (2022) 102290

• Fear of COVID-19 Contagion and Consumption: Evidence from a Survey of Italian Households, (with T. Jappelli, T. Oliviero and A. Zazzaro) Health Economics  31(3) (2022) 213-236

• Income Losses, Cash Transfers and Trust in Financial and Political Institutions: Survey Evidence from the Covid-19 Crisis, (with T. Oliviero and A. Zazzaro) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 22 (2022) 647-654

• Advertising and cost reduction, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 9(1) (2009) (Topics), Article 10

• Payoff dependence of comparative statics results on information structure, Economics Letters 63 (1999) 351-354

• Gender-science implicit association and employment decisions, (con F. Gioia), CSEF working paper 681 (2023)