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Publications

Latest Working Papers

‘Difference-In-Difference Design With Repeated Cross-Sections Under Compositional Changes: a Monte-Carlo Evaluation of Alternative Approaches’. 2023 (with Tommaso Manfè).

‘Further Evidence on the Economic Implications of Employment Protection Legislation: a Matching-DID Approach’, 2023.

‘The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States’. 2023, GLO Discussion Paper Series 1315, Global Labor Organization (with Elona Harka and Lorenzo Rocco). Previous version: IZA Discussion Paper 14719, 2021 .

‘Do Immigrants Make Us Safer? A Model on Crime, Immigration and the Labor Market’,  2020, Marco Fanno Working Papers - 248 (with Thomas Bassetti, Luca Corazzini and Darwin Cortes).

‘Minimum Wages and Informal Employment in Developing Countries’, 2020 (with Giulia Lotti and Julian Messina).

‘A Taste of the Land: Experimental Evidence on Terroir and the Perceived Quality of Wine’, 2018 (with Patrizia Malaspina).

‘The Economics of Civil Justice: New Cross-Country Data and Empirics’, OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 1060, 2013 (with Giuliana Palumbo, Giulia Giupponi, and Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti). 

Publications

‘The Protestant Ethic and Entrepreneurship: Inside the Black Box’, Small Business Economics, 62, 1285-1313, 2024. (with Lorenzo Rocco). 

‘Business is Tense: New Evidence on How Language Affects Economic Activity’, Journal of Economic Growth, Volume 29, pages 121–149, 2024. (with Francesco Campo and Lorenzo Rocco). 

‘Radioactive Decay, Health and Social Capital: Lessons From The Chernobyl Experiment’,  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 198, June 2022, pp. 315-340. (with Francesca Marino).

‘More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy’, Journal of Demographic Economics, Volume 88 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 447 - 472. (with Sascha Becker and Erich Battistin).

‘The Expected Price of Keeping up with the Joneses’, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 200, August 2022, pp. 1203-1220. (with Olivier Armantier, Antonio Filippin and Michael Neubauer).     

‘"Thou Shalt Not Smoke": Religion and Smoking in a Natural Experiment of History’, Social Science & Medicine - Population Health, Volume 8, August 2019, 100412. (with Veronica Toffolutti).

‘Monetary Effects of Inequality: Lessons from the Euro Experiment’, The Journal of Economic Inequality, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2019, pp. 99–124. (with Antonio Filippin).

‘Long Term Consequences of the Chernobyl Radioactive Fallout: an Exploration of the Aggregate Data’, The Milbank Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 4, December 2018, pp. 814-857 (a multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy, with an Impact Factor of 7.425). (with Francesca Marino).

‘The Protestant Ethic and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Religious Minorities in Former Holy Roman Empire Regions’, European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 51, pp.27-43, January 2018. (with Lorenzo Rocco).

‘The Labor Market in Italy, 2000-2016’, IZA Work of Labor, 2017: 407. (with Francesca Marino).

‘Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Self-Reported Attitude Toward Immigrants’, European Economic Review, Volume 90, pp. 201–224, November 2016. (with Beatrice D'Hombres). 

‘A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethic and Entrepreneurship’, Journal of Economic Growth, Volume 21, Issue 2, pp 189-224, 2016. (with Lorenzo Rocco). Press release here. 

‘Immigration and Crime: Evidence From Victimization Data’, Journal of Population Economics, Volume 28, Issue 3, pp 697-736, July 2015. Springer EconomicsStars 2017 Article. Featured in Le Monde.

‘Judicial performance and its determinants: a cross-country perspective’, OECD Economic Policy Paper Series No. 05, OECD Publishing, June 2013, (with Giuliana Palumbo, Giulia Giupponi, and Juan S. Mora-Sanguinetti). Key policy messages here. The publication was presented at the Italian Senate at the presence of the Minister of Justice and the President of the Senate. Introductory speech by the President of the Senate here. Featured in Il Sole 24 Ore, RaiNews24, La Stampa and others.

‘In a Time of Crisis: Some Notes On the Italian Labour Market and Beyond’, CESifo DICE Report 2/2012 (Summer), 2012. Featured in The New York Times.

‘Models of Unionism and Unemployment’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp. 141 – 152, June 2011, (with Daniele Checchi).

‘Labour Market Structures and the Sacrifice Ratio’, Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 32, Issue 3, pp. 816-826, September 2010, (with Christopher Bowdler).

‘Job Protection Legislation and Productivity Growth in OECD Countries’, Economic Policy, Volume 24, Issue 58, pp. 349-402, April 2009, (with Andrea Bassanini and Danielle Venn).

‘Employment in Europe and the Flexicurity Option’, CESifo DICE Report, 4/2008 (Winter), 2008.

‘Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study’, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 109, Issue 3, pp. 619-642,  September 2007, (with Christopher Bowdler).

‘Labor Market Institutions and Wage Differentials’, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Volume 60, Number 3, pp. 340-356, April 2007, (with Winfried Koeniger and Marco Leonardi).

‘Short Term Contracts Regulations and Dynamic Labour Demand: Theory and Evidence’, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 54, Number 1, pp. 72-104, February 2007, (with Stefano Staffolani). 

‘Trade Union Density and Inflation Performance: Evidence from OECD Panel Data’, Economica, Volume 74, Issue 293, p. 135-159, 2007, (with Christopher Bowdler).

‘Trade Openness and Inflation Episodes in the OECD’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 38, Number 2, pp. 553-563, March 2006, (with Christopher Bowdler).

‘Institutions and Wage Determination: a Multi-Country Approach’, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 67, Issue 4, pp. 435-466, August 2005.

‘Unemployment in the OECD since the 1960s. What do we know?’, The Economic Journal, Volume 115, pp.1-27, January 2005, (with Steve Nickell and Wolfang Ochel).

‘Labour Market Institutions and the Cyclical Dynamics of Employment’, Labour Economics, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 31-53, February 2003.

‘The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment and Wages in the OECD’, in Aghion, Frydman, Stiglitz and Woodford (eds.) Knowledge, Information and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics: in Honor of Edmund S. Phelps, Princeton University Press, pp. 394-431, 2003 (with Steve Nickell, Wolfang Ochel, and Glenda Quintini).

‘Why Jobless Rates Differ?’, CentrePiece, Vol. 6, Issue 3, Autumn 2001. Reprinted in CESifo Forum, Vol. 3, Number 1, Spring 2002 (with Steve Nickell, Wolfang Ochel, and Glenda Quintini).