Research
Selected Publications
November 2022. "Bidding on Price and Quality: an Experiment on the Complexity of Scoring Auctions" (with Riccardo Camboni, Stefano Galavotti, and Paola Valbonesi). Marco Fanno Working Paper, 243-2019. Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
February 2021. "Cervical Cancer Screening Invitations in Low and Middle Income Countries: Evidence from Armenia" (with Armenak Antinyan and Marco Bertoni). Social Science and Medicine, 273, 113739.
August 2015. "Donor Coordination in Project Funding: Evidence from a Threshold Public Goods Experiment" (with Christopher Cotton and Paola Valbonesi). Journal of Public Economics, 128, 16-29.
July 2014. "Elections and Deceptions: an Experimental Study on the Behavioral Effects of Democracy" (with Sebastian Kube, Michel André Maréchal, and Antonio Nicoló). American Journal of Political Science, 58(3), 579-592.
September 2010. "A Prize to Give for: An Experiment on Public Good Funding Mechanisms" (with Marco Faravelli and Luca Stanca). Economic Journal, 120(547), 944-967.
Complete List of Publications in Referred Journals
July 2024. "Coordinated selection of collective action: Wealthy interest bias and inequality" (with Christopher Cotton, Enrico Longo, and Tommaso Reggiani). Journal of Public Economics, 238, 105172.
February 2024. “Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses” (with Armenak Antinyan, Miloš Fišar, and Tommaso Reggiani). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 218, 599-612.
October 2023. "Watch Your Words: an Experimental Study on Communication and the Opportunity Cost of Delegation" (with Armenak Antinyan, Elena D'Agostino, and Filippo Pavesi). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 214, 216-232.
May 2023. “Coordinating Donations via an Intermediary: The Destructive Effect of A Sunk Overhead Cost” (with Diya E. Abraham, Miloš Fišar, and Tommaso Reggiani). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 211, 287-304.
February 2023. "Bidding on Price and Quality: an Experiment on the Complexity of Scoring Auctions" (with Riccardo Camboni, Stefano Galavotti, and Paola Valbonesi). Marco Fanno Working Paper, 243-2019. Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
December 2021. "Impact of Early Childcare on Immigrant Children's Educational Performance" (with Elena Meschi and Caterina Pavese). Economics of Education Review, 85, 102181.
November 2021. "The Influence of Personality Traits on University Performance: Evidence from Italian Freshmen Students" (with Silvia D'Arrigo, Emanuele Millemaci, and Pietro Navarra). Plos One, 16(11): e0258586.
October 2021. "Does Whistleblowing on Tax Evaders Reduce Ingroup Cooperation?" (with Philipp Chapkovski and Valeria Maggian). Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 732248.
June 2021. "Trust in the Health System and COVID-19 Treatment" (with Armenak Antinyan, Thomas Bassetti, and Filippo Pavesi). Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 643758.
June 2021. "Political Narratives and the US Partisan Gender Gap" (with Armenak Antinyan, Thomas Bassetti, and Filippo Pavesi). Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 675684.
February 2021. "Cervical Cancer Screening Invitations in Low and Middle Income Countries: Evidence from Armenia" (with Armenak Antinyan and Marco Bertoni). Social Science and Medicine, 273, 113739.
November 2020. "Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods: Experimental Evidence" (with Christopher Cotton and Tommaso Reggiani). Experimental Economics, 23, 1030-1068.
September 2020. "Communication in a threshold public goods game with ambiguity: Anomalies and regularities" (with Matteo Marini and Aurora García-Gallego). Applied Economics, 52(53), 5821-5842.
July 2020. "The Good Outcome of Bad News: A Field Experiment on Formatting Breast Cancer Screening Invitation Letters" (with Marco Bertoni and Silvana Robone). American Journal of Health Economics, 6(3), 372-409.
March 2020. "Does Trust in the Government Matter for Whistleblowing on Tax Evaders? Survey and Experimental Evidence" (with Armenak Antinyan and Filippo Pavesi). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 171, 77-95.
September 2019. "An Experimental Study on Sequential Auctions with Privately Known Capacities" (with Stefano Galavotti and Paola Valbonesi). Games and Economic Behavior, 117, 289-315.
July 2019. "Measuring the Behavioural Component of the S&P 500 and Its Relationship to Financial Stress and Aggregated Earnings Surprises" (with Massimiliano Caporin and Michele Costola). British Journal of Management, 30(3), 712-729.
September 2018. "Does Paternal Unemployment Affect Young Adult Offspring's Personality?" (with Viola Angelini and Marco Bertoni). Journal of Human Capital, 12(3), 542-567.
March 2018. "Asymmetric Affective Forecasting Errors and Their Correlation with Subjective Well-Being" (with Marco Bertoni). Plos One, 13(3), e0192941.
February 2018. "Relative Standing and Temporary Migration: Empirical Evidence from the South Caucasus" (with Armenak Antinyan). Review of Development Economics, 22(1), 361-383.
February 2017. "Allotment in First-Price Auctions: an Experimental Investigation" (with Stefano Galavotti, Rupert Sausgruber, and Paola Valbonesi). Experimental Economics, 20(1), 70-99.
February 2017. "Voting as a Lottery" (with Giuseppe Attanasi and Francesco Passarelli). Journal of Public Economics, 146, 129-137.
January 2017. "Unpacking the Determinants of Life Satisfaction: a Survey Experiment" (with Viola Angelini and Marco Bertoni). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - A, 180(1), 225-246.
August 2015. "Donor Coordination in Project Funding: Evidence from a Threshold Public Goods Experiment" (with Christopher Cotton and Paola Valbonesi). Journal of Public Economics, 128, 16-29.
June 2015. "Public Good Provision, Punishment and the Endowment Origin: Experimental Evidence" (with Armenak Antinyan and Daniel Neururer). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 56, 72-77.
April 2015. "Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time Preferences, Risk-Taking, and Altruism" (with Antonio Filippin and Paolo Vanin). Plos One, 10(4), e0121530.
March 2015. "Life Satisfaction of Immigrants: Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?" (with Viola Angelini and Laura Casi). Journal of Population Economics, 28(3), 817-844.
October 2014. "Do Danes and Italians Rate Life Satisfaction in the Same Way? Using Vignettes to Correct for Individual-Specific Scale Biases" (with Viola Angelini, Danilo Cavapozzi, and Omar Paccagnella). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 76(5), 643-666.
August 2014. "Risk Aversion, Over-Confidence and Private Information as Determinants of Majority Thresholds" (with Giuseppe Attanasi, Nikolaos Georgantzis, and Francesco Passarelli). Pacific Economic Review, 19(3), 355-386.
July 2014. "Elections and Deceptions: an Experimental Study on the Behavioral Effects of Democracy" (with Sebastian Kube, Michel André Maréchal, and Antonio Nicoló). American Journal of Political Science, 58(3), 579-592.
February 2014. "Reference Dependent Preferences, Hedonic Adaptation and Tax Evasion: Does the Tax Burden Matter?" (with Michele Bernasconi and Raffaello Seri). Journal of Economic Psychology, 40, 103-118.
May 2012. "Influential Listeners: An Experiment on Persuasion Bias in Social Networks" (with Filippo Pavesi, Beatrice Petrovich, and Luca Stanca). European Economic Review, 56(6), 1276-1288.
March 2012. "Reign in Hell or Serve in Heaven? A Cross-country Journey into the Relative vs Absolute Perceptions of Wellbeing" (with Lucio Esposito and Francesca Majorano). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81(3), 715-730.
January 2012. "Age, Health and Life Satisfaction Among Older Europeans" (with Viola Angelini, Danilo Cavapozzi, and Omar Paccagnella). Social Indicators Research, 105(2), 293-308.
March 2011. "Exploring the Absolutist Vs Relativist Perception of Poverty Using a Cross-Country Questionnaire Survey" (with Lucio Esposito and Francesca Majorano). Journal of Economic Psychology, 32(2), 273-283.
September 2010. "A Prize to Give for: An Experiment on Public Good Funding Mechanisms" (with Marco Faravelli and Luca Stanca). Economic Journal, 120(547), 944-967.
September 2009. "Testing Theories of Reciprocity: Does Motivation Matter?" (with Luca Stanca and Luigino Bruni). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 71(2), 233-245.
July 2009. "Two are Better than One! Individuals’ Contributions to Unpacked Public Goods" (with Michele Bernasconi, Sebastian Kube, and Michel André Maréchal). Economics Letters, 104(1), 31-33.
April 2008. "Unequal Contributions from Symmetric Agents in a Local Interaction Model" (with Ugo Gianazza). Journal of Public Economic Theory, 10(3), 351–370.
August 2007. "Herding, Social Preferences and (Non-)Conformity" (with Ben Greiner). Economics Letters, 97(1), 74-80.
Working Papers
April 2023. "Breaking the Bag Habit: Testing Interventions to Reduce Plastic Bag Demand in a Developing Country" (with Armenak Antinyan). Cardiff Economics Working Papers, E2023/07. This paper supersedes the previous version "Money Does It Better! Economic Incentives, Nudging Interventions and Reusable Shopping Bags: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment," Cardiff Economics Working Papers, E2021/29. R&R
October 2022. “Focal Points in Multiple Threshold Public Goods Games: A Single-Project Meta-Analysis” (with Matteo Marini). MUNI ECO Working Paper, 2022-10. R&R
December 2021. “Digital Access to Healthcare Services and Healthcare Utilization: A Quasi-Experiment” (with Armenak Antinyan, Stefania Bellio, Marco Bertoni, and Elena Narne). IZA DP, 14916. R&R
January 2021. "Narratives on COVID-19 and Policy Opinions: a Survey Experiment" (with Armenak Antinyan, Thomas Bassetti, and Filippo Pavesi). University Ca' Foscari Working Paper, 4/WP/2021. R&R
February 2020 [DORMIENT]. "Do Immigrants Make Us Safer? Crime, Immigration, and the Labor Market" (with Thomas Bassetti, Darwin Cortes, and Luca Nunziata). Marco Fanno working paper, 249/2020.
Other Publications
November 2022. "Whistleblowing and Tax Evasion: Experimental Evidence" (with Michele Bernasconi and Tiziana Medda). Economic and Political Studies, 1-18.
February 2021. (In Italian) "Il Whistleblowing Come Strumento nella Lotta Contro l'Evasione Fiscale: Indicazioni dall'Economia Comportamentale". In "Whistleblowing e Prevenzione dell'Illegalità" edited by Della Bella, A. P. and S. Zorzetto. Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, Italy.
February 2021. "Trust and Trustworthiness in Corrupted Economic Environments" (with Leonardo Becchetti and Vittorio Pelligra). Games, 12(1), 16.
December 2020. (In Italian) "L’Apprendimento Collaborativo nelle Scuole: un Approccio Sperimentale Interdisciplinare tra Pedagogia ed Economia" (with Giorgio Monti, Valentina Grion and Marina De Rossi). MeTis, 10(2), 292-311.
March 2020. "A Survey Experiment on Information, Taxpayer Preferences and Perceived Adequacy of the Tax Burden" (with Lorenzo Abbiati and Armenak Antinyan). Heliyon, 6(3), e03576.
December 2016. "Are You Satisfied Now?" (with Viola Angelini and Marco Bertoni). Significance, 13, 8-9.
September 2015. "Civil Economy and Solidarity in Latin America" (with Irene Bertana). International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2(3), 269-284.
April 2015. "Preference for Efficiency or Confusion? A Note on a Boundedly Rational Equilibrium Approach to Individual Contributions in a Public Good Game" (with Marcelo Tyszler). Journal of Applied Mathematics, article ID 961930.
February 2014. "Measuring the Impact of Behavioural Choices on the Market Prices" (with Massimiliano Caporin and Michele Costola). In "Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance" edited by Perna, C. and M. Sibillo. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.
June 2013. (In Italian) "Evasione Fiscale: Lezioni dall'Economia Comportamentale." In "Evoluzione e Riforma dell'Intervento Pubblico - Scritti in Onore di Gilberto Muraro." Giappichelli Editore, Torino.
March 2013. "‘Expressive’ Obligations in Public Good Games: Crowding-in and Crowding-out Effects" (with Michele Bernasconi and Anna Marenzi). Research in Economics, 67(1), 13-24.
November 2012. "Anonymous Contributions as Reciprocating Behavior. A Model with Individual Thresholds." In “Economics at Work,” edited by Bassetti, T. and F. Pavesi, Monte Università Parma Editore.
October 2012. (In Italian) "Economia Sperimentale.” In “Economia e Finanza," Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana "Treccani."
March 2011. "Common Fate, Game Harmony and Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence" (with Robert Sugden). International Review of Economics, 58(1), 43-52.
November 2010. "Social Capital and Growth in Brazilian Municipalities" (with Matteo Grazzi and Marcella Nicolini). In "Economic Growth, Innovation and Competitiveness in a Knowledge-Based World Economy" edited by Nijkamp, P. and I. Siedschlag, “Advances in Spatial Science” series, Springer.
March 2006. (In Italian) "Reciprocità Sociale, Fiducia Diffusa e Crescita Economica." In "Teoria economica e relazioni interpersonali. Verso il paradigma relazionale in economia", edited by Zamagni, S. and P. L. Sacco, Il Mulino, Bologna.
August 2003. (In Italian) "Alle Basi del Comportamento Economico: Puro Egoismo o Altruismo?" (with Francesco Passarelli). In "Lecco Economia," n. 3.
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