Publications
Major journal articles:
"Infectious diseases and social distancing under state-dependent probabilities" (with Davide La Torre, and Fabio Privileggi). Annals of Operations Research, forthcoming
"The tourism area life cycle hypothesis: a micro-foundation" (with Marco Tolotti). Tourism Economics, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 345–360, March 2024
"Epidemic outbreaks and the optimal lockdown area: a spatial normative approach" (with Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). Economic Theory, vol. 77, no. 1-2, pp. 349–411 , February 2024
"Stochastic disease spreading and containment policies under state-dependent probabilities" (with Davide La Torre, Franklin Mendivil, and Fabio Privileggi). Economic Theory, vol. 77, no. 1-2, pp. ,127-168, February 2024
"A neural-network-based economic growth model with endogenous migration and poverty traps" (with Alberto Bucci, Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). Metroeconomica, vol. 74, no. 4, pp. 833-857, November 2023
"Geographical heterogeneities and externalities in an epidemiological-macroeconomic framework" (with Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1154-1181, October 2022
"COVID-19 epidemic and mitigation policies: positive and normative analyses in a neoclassical growth model" (with Luca Gori, Piero Manfredi, and Mauro Sodini). Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 968-992, October 2022
"Reclamation of a resource extraction site: a differential game approach" (with Nahid Masoudi). Metroeconomica, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 770-802, July 2022
"Sustainability and spatial spillovers in a multicriteria macroeconomic model" (with Herb Kunze, and Davide La Torre). Annals of Operations Research, vol. 311, no. 2, pp. 1067-1084, April 2022
"Mobility choices and strategic interactions in a two-groups macroeconomic-epidemiological model" (with Davide La Torre, Danilo Liuzzi, and Rosario Maggistro). Dynamic Games and Applications, vol. 12., no. 1, pp. 110-132, March 2022
"Transboundary pollution externalities: think globally, act locally?" (with Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 96, no.1, article 102511, October 2021
"Social interactions, residential segregation and the dynamics of tipping" (with Trevor Kollmann, Sandy Suardi, and Marco Tolotti). Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 1355-1388, September 2021
"Population growth and climate change: a dynamic integrated climate-economy-demography model" (with Veronica Lupi). Ecological Economics, vol. 184, no.1, article 107011, June 2021
"Epidemics and macroeconomic outcomes: social distancing intensity and duration" (with Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 93, no.1, article 102473, March 2021
"Welfare and convergence speed in the Ramsey model under two classes of Gorman preferences" (with Alberto Bucci and Wilson da Cruz Viera). Italian Economic Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 37-58, March 2021
"On the economic growth and environmental trade-off: a multi-objective analysis" (with Fabio Privileggi). Annals of Operations Research, vol. 296, no. 1, pp. 263--289, January 2021
"Is outstanding performance in sport events a driver of tourism?" (with Hassan Gholipour, Amir Arjomandi, and Behzad Foroughi). Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, vol. 18, no.1, article 100507, December 2020
"Optimal control of prevention and treatment in a basic macroeconomic-epidemiological model" (with Davide La Torre, and Tufail Malik). Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 100-108, November 2020
"A note on optimal debt reduction policies" (with Davide La Torre). Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1850-1860, October 2020
"Motivation crowding-out and green-paradox-like outcomes" (with Marco Tolotti). Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 1559–1583, September 2020
"On the (nonmonotonic) relation between economic growth and finance" (with Alberto Bucci, and Catherine Prettner). Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 93-112, January 2020
"Financial development and economic growth: long-run equilibrium and transitional dynamics" (with Alberto Bucci). Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 331-359, July 2019
"Endogenous recombinant growth and intellectual property rights" (with Carla Marchese, Fabio Priv+ileggi, and Giovanni Ramello). Macroeconomic Dynamics, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 2035-2067, July 2019
"Financial contagion and economic development: an epidemiological approach" (with Alberto Bucci, Davide La Torre, Danilo Liuzzi). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 162. no. 1, pp. 211-228, June 2019
"Population and geography do matter for sustainable development" (with Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). Environment and Development Economics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 201-223, April 2019
"On the implications of tourism specialization and structural change in tourism destinations". Tourism Economics, vol. 24, n. 8, pp. 945–962, December 2018
"Economic growth and abatement activities in a stochastic environment: a multi-objective approach" (with Davide La Torre). Annals of Operations Research, vol. 267, no. 1-2, pp. 321-334, August 2018
"Racial segregation in the United States since the Great Depression: a dynamic segregation approach" (with Trevor Kollmann, and Sandy Suardi). Journal of Housing Economics, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 95-116, June 2018
"Endogenous growth and technological progress with innovation driven by social interactions" (with Marco Tolotti). Economic Theory, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 293-328, March 2018
"Pollution control under uncertainty and sustainability concern" (with Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 885-903, August 2017
"Is environmental protection beneficial for the environment?" (with Alberto Ansuategi). Review of Development Economics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 786–802, August 2017
"A simple endogenous growth model with endogenous fertility and environmental concern". Scottish Journal of Political Economy, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 263-282, July 2017
"On the carrying capacity and the optimal number of visitors in tourism destinations". Tourism Economics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 632–646, May 2017
"Sustainability and intertemporal equity: a multicriteria approach" (with Cinzia Colapinto, and Danilo Liuzzi). Annals of Operations Research, vol. 251, no.1-2, pp. 271-284, April 2017
"Multi-criteria decision analysis with goal programming in engineering, management and social sciences" (with Cinzia Colapinto, and Raja Jayaraman). Annals of Operations Research, vol. 251, no. 1-2, pp. 7-40, April 2017
"The environmental Kuznets curve and the structural change hypothesis" (with Alberto Ansuategi, and Maria Carmen Gallastegui). Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 265-288, February 2016
"Uncertainty, crowding aversion and tourism aversion in tourism destinations". Tourism Economics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 111-123, February 2016
"Pollution diffusion and abatement activities across space and over time" (with Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 48-63, November 2015
"Economic growth and environment: tourism as a trigger for green growth'', Tourism Economics, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 183-204, February 2015
"Reassessing Edgeworth's conjecture when population dynamics is stochastic", Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 130-140, December 2014
"A note on demographic shocks in a multi-sector growth model" (with Davide La Torre). Economics Bulletin, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 2293-2299, August 2012
"Population dynamics and utilitarian criteria in the Lucas-Uzawa model" (with Davide La Torre). Economic Modelling, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1197-1204, July 2012
"On the relationship between population change and sustainable development". Research in Economics, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 353-364, December 2011
"Endogenous technological progress in a multi-sector growth model" (with Davide La Torre). Economic Modelling, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1017-1028, September 2010
Other journal articles:
"Generalized fractal transforms with condensation: a macroeconomic-epidemiological application" (with Davide La Torre, Franklin Mendivil, and Fabio Privileggi). Pure and Applied Functional Analysis, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 2101-2128, December 2022
"Transboundary pollution control and competitiveness concerns in a two-country differential game" (with Nahid Masoudi). Environmental Modeling & Assessment, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 105-118, February 2022
"Public debt dynamics under ambiguity by means of iterated functions systems on density functions" (with Davide La Torre, Franklin Mendivil, and Fabio Privileggi). Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B, vol. 26, no.11, pp. 5873-5903, November 2021
"Three dimensional fractal attractors in a green transition economic growth model" (with Fabio Privileggi). Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, vol. 93, no. 1, article 105509, February 2021
"A stochastic economic growth model with health capital and state-dependent probabilities" (with Davide La Torre, Franklin Mendivil, and Fabio Privileggi). Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 129, no. 1, pp. 81-93, December 2019
"The optimal population size under pollution and migration externalities: a spatial control approach" (with Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, vol. 14, no. 1, article 104, April 2019
"Dynamics and welfare in recombinant growth models with intellectual property rights: a computational method" (with Fabio Privileggi), Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 98-118, April 2019
"Fractal attractors in economic growth models with random pollution externalities" (with Davide La Torre, and Fabio Privileggi). Chaos, vol. 28, no. 5, article 055916, May 2018
"Fractal attractors and singular invariant measures in two-sector growth models with random factor shares" (with Davide La Torre, Franklin Mendivil, and Fabio Privileggi). Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 185-201, May 2018
"Self-similar measures in multi-sector endogenous growth models" (with Davide La Torre, Franklin Mendivil, and Fabio Privileggi) . Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 40-56, October 2015
"Environmental shocks and sustainability in a basic economy-environment model" (with Fabio Privileggi). International Journal of Applied Nonlinear Science, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 67-75, March 2013
"Stochastic shocks in a two-sector Solow model". International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation, vol. 3, no.4, pp. 313-318, September 2012
"Fractals and self-similarity in economics: the case of a two-sector growth model" (with Davide La Torre, and Fabio Privileggi). Image Analysis & Stereology, vol.30, no. 3, pp. 143-151, November 2011
Invited journal articles:
"Optimal control: theory and application to science, engineering, and social sciences" (with Davide La Torre, Herb Kunze, Manuel Ruiz-Galan, and Tufail Malik), Abstract and Applied Analysis, article 890527, April 2015 (Editorial)
"Economic growth: technical progress, population dynamics and sustainability". Rivista Italiana degli Economisti - Journal of the Italian Economic Association, vol.17, no.1, pp.151-158, April 2012 (PhD thesis: S.I.E. Prize 2011)
Contributions in edited volumes:
"Tourism in an open system: what do theories of international trade and competition teach us?'" (with Robertico Croes). In (Croes, R., Yang, Y., Eds.) "A modern guide to tourism economics", chapter 3, pp. 37--58 (Elgar Publishing: USA), September 2022
"On dynamic multiple criteria decision making models: a goal programming approach" (with Belaid Aouni, Cinzia Colapinto, Davide La Torre, and Danilo Liuzzi). In (Al-Shammari, M., Masri, H., Eds) "Multiple criteria decision making in finance, insurance and investment", chapter 3, pp. 41-48 (Springer International Publishing: Switzerland). February 2015
Unpublished works (working papers only):
"Endogenous growth, population growth and the repugnant conclusion", Departmental Working Papers 2014-14, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Universita' degli Studi di Milano