Publications in internationally refereed journals
Spinesi, L. 2025 Carbon Tax with Individuals’ Heterogeneous Environmental Concerns. The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 25(3), 681-730.
Spinesi, L. 2025 (with Addis M., and Conigliani, C.) Assessing the impact of essential service locations on social hardship: Evidence from Rome. Cities, 167, 106349.
Spinesi, L. 2024 (with Rota M.) Economic growth before the Industrial Revolution: Rural production and guilds in the European Little Divergence. Economic Modelling, 130, 106590.
Spinesi, L. 2022. The environmental tax: effects on inequality and growth. Environmental and Resource Economics, 82:529–572.
Spinesi, L. 2021. (with Tirelli, M.) R&D financing and growth. Economics of Innovation and New Technology; 1-24.
Spinesi, L. 2017. (with Schettino, F., Rota, M). 'Key inventors, teams and firm performance: The Italian case.' jointly. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 42: 13-25.
Spinesi, L. 2016. (with Castellano, R., Cerqueti, R.) 'Sustainable management of fossil fuels: A dynamic stochastic optimization approach with jump-diffusion.' European Journal of Operational Research 255: 288–297.
Spinesi, L. 2013. 'Academic and Industrial R&D: are they always complementary? A theoretical Approach.' Oxford Economic Papers, 65(1): 147-172.
Spinesi, L. 2012. 'Global Warming and Endogenous Technological Change: Revisiting the Green Paradox.' Environmental and Resource Economics, 51: 545–559.
Spinesi, L. 2012. 'Heterogeneous Academic-Industry Knowledge Linkage, Heterogeneous IPR, and Growth.' Journal of Public Economic Theory, 14 (1): 67–98.
Spinesi, L. 2011. 'Probabilistic Heterogeneous Patent Protection and Innovation Incentives.' The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 11: Iss. 1, Article 45.
Spinesi, L. 2009. 'Rent-Seeking Bureaucracies, Inequality, and Growth.' Journal of Development Economics, 90: 244-257.
Spinesi, L. 2009 'Intellectual Property Meets Economic Geography: Globalization, Inequality and Innovation Strategies.' Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 56: 508-542.
Spinesi, L. 2006. (with Cozzi G.) 'Intellectual Appropriability, Product Differentiation, and Growth.' Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 10: 39-55.
Spinesi, L.. 2006. (with Cozzi G.) 'How much is Horizontal Innovation Consistent with Vertical Innovation?' Research in Economics, vol. 60 (1): 47-53.
Spinesi, L. 2004. (with Cozzi G.) 'Information Transmission and Bounds to Growth.' The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Article 6.
Other Publications in refereed journals
Santoleri, F., Saggese, M., Addis, M., Capozucca, R., Conigliani, C., Lorica, A., & Spinesi, L. (2024). Unlocking the potential of digital transformation in theater: Scena’s Journey. Economia della Cultura, 34(2-3), 337-345.
Spinesi, L. 2006 . (with Parello C.) 'A Schumpeterian Model of Wage Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement.' Rivista di Politica Economica, Special Issue.
Spinesi, L. 2006. (with Cozzi G.) 'R&D and Espionage: Effects on Income Level, Growth, and Inequality.' Cuadernos Economicos, 72: 213-227.
Chapters in Book
Spinesi, L., Conigliani, C. (2025). La disuguaglianza di genere in Europa: un'analisi empirica. Dimensioni e questioni della diseguaglianza di genere. Studi multidisciplinari, 97.
The relevance of scale economies in economic and social relationships for economic geography. On the volume Encounters and Engagements between Economic and Cultural Geography, edited by Barney Warf. Springer. 2012.
Knowledge creation and international knowledge transfers, on the volume The Global Governance of Knowledge, edited by Helge Hveem and Lelio Iapadre. Routledge. London. UK. ISBN: 0415605741. 2011.
Foreign Direct Investment, with Luca de Benedictis, on the volume The Global Governance of Knowledge, edited by Helge Hveem and Lelio Iapadre. 2011. Routledge. London. UK. ISBN: 0415605741. 2011.
A Schumpeterian Model of Wage Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement, with Carmelo Parello, on the volume Intellectual Property, Competition and Gorwth, edited by Roberto Cellini and Guido Cozzi. Palgrave MacMillan. 2007.
Partial Imitation, Inequality, and Growth, with Carmelo Parello, on the volume Innovation, Unemployment and Policy in the Theories of Growth and Distribution, edited by Neri Salvadori and Renato Balducci, Edward Elgar, Chentenham, UK. 2005.