Recent Working Papers and Work in Progress

Working Papers

• Remedy to the Demand for Bad Policy, (with Ghidoni, R., Roberti, P.A) IZA Discussion Paper, 18695, (2026)

• Human Enhancement Technologies: A Survey Experiment on Private Demand and Governance Preferences, (with Mario Macis, Immacolata Marino, and Fabrizio Panebianco), NBER Working Paper 35495 (2026), https://doi.org/10.3386/w35495

• The supply of human enhancement technologies, (with Bizzarri, Matteo and Panebianco, Fabrizio) SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6651298 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6651298 (2026)

• Has mafia infiltrated Italian firms during the Covid-19 crisis?, (with R. De Luca, R. Greco and T. Oliviero) CSEF working paper n.750 (2025)

• From Chance to Choice. The Demand for Human Enhancement Treatments, (with F. Panebianco) (2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4970323 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4970323 NEW VERSION COMING SOON

• An unintended consequence of gender balance laws: mafia fuels political violence, (with A. Beraldi, E. Papagni and M. Stimolo) CSEF working paper n.693 (2023) 

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

• Sex in the City: Capitalizing Regulated Prostitution into Housing Prices, (with 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)

Work in Progress

• Organized Crime and the Supply and Demand of Good Politicians (with F. Drago and A. Miano)

• The political economy of human enhancement, (with F. Panebianco and P. Roberti)