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CURRENT RESEARCH: WORKING PAPERS & RESEARCH PROJECTS

• • "Labor Market Regulation  and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand", (with A. Bottasso, M. Bratti , G. Cardullo and G. Sulis). .Click here  Revise & resubmit

  • "High-Speed Railways and  Firms Total Factor Productvity: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment", (with A. Bottasso, A. Ferrara and S. Robbiano), IZA Discussion Paper 16572. Click here. Under revision.

  • "Structural Reforms During the Greek Economic Adjustment Programme: the Amalgamation of Municipalities", (with M.Ferraresi, N. Benos N., Karagiannis S. & Papazoglu M.). Click here Under revision.

  • "The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Time Use", (with A. Bottasso, G.Cerruti and E. Stancanelli). Click here . Submitted.

  • "Sailing Through History: the Legacy of Medieval Sea-Trade on Migrant Perception and Extreme Right Voting", (with A. Bottasso, G.Cerruti and M.Santagata), IZA DP 16996, 2024.. Click here

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Papers on Labour Economics

• • "On the Emergence of Cooperative Industrial and Labor Relations", (with G. Cardullo, A.Ricci, S. Scicchitano and G. Sulis) , forthcomig in British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, Click here  

  • "Employment Protection and Firm Provided Training in Dual Labour Markets" (with M.Bratti and G. Sulis), Labour Economics, 2021. Click here &  here   On Line Appendix  The WP version was mentioned in the 2019 OECD Skills Outlook. 

  • "A Model of Unions, Two-Tier Bargaining and Capital Investment" (with G. Cardullo  and G. Sulis), Labour Economics, 67, 2020. Click here

• • "Firm Dynamics and Employment Protection: Evidence from Sectoral Data" (with A. Bottasso and G. Sulis), Labour Economics, 48, 2017. Click here and  here Cited in the World Development Report (2019) "The changing nature of work" and in the  2020 OECD Skills Outlook  

  • “Human Capital, Employment Protection and Growth in Europe” (with G. Sulis), Journal of Comparative Economics, 44, 2, 2016. Click here and  here

  • "Sunk Capital, Unions and the Hold-Up Problem: Theory and Evidence from Cross-Country Sectoral Data", (with G. Cardullo and G. Sulis), European Economic Review, 76, May, 2015. Click here  & here Cited in the OECD Employment Outlook 2018 

  • “Type of Employers and Fertility of Working Women: Does Working in the Public Sector or in a Large Private Firm Matter?" (with E. Sette), in Cambridge Journal of Economics, 37, 6, 2013. Click here 

Papers on Industrial Organization & Economic Regulation

• • "Dynastic Management and Historical Origins: the Italian Experience", with  (with G. Cardullo, M.Damiani, A.Ricci, S. Scicchitano and G. Sulis) . Forthcoming in Corporate Governance- An International Journal.

  • "Government Late Payments and Firms Survival. Evidence from the EU",  (with Elia L., Ferrara A. and Ferraresi M.) , Journal of Law and Economics, 64, 3, 2021. Click here .

  • "Scale and (Quasi) Scope Economies in Airport Technology. An Application to UK Airports", (with A. Bottasso and D. Vannoni), Transportation Research Part A,  125, 2019. Click here for the WP version and Click here .

  • "Did the EU Airport Charges Directive Lead to Lower Aeronautical Charges? Empirical Evidence from a Diff-in-Diff Research Design" (with A. Ferrara and M. Ferraresi), Economics of Transportation, 2019.Click here &  here. Policy mention 

  • "Competition, Vertical Relationship and Countervailing Power in the UK Airport Industry"  (with A. Bottasso, C. Piga and M. Bruno), Journal of Regulatory Economics, 52, 1, 2017.  Click here and   here

  •  "Low Cost Carriers and Airport Performance: Empirical Evidence From a Panel of UK Airports" (with A. Bottasso and C. Piga), in Industrial and Corporate Change, 22, 3, 2013. Click here   Click here for the WP version 

  • "The Cost Structure of the UK Airport Industry" (with A. Bottasso), Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 3, 2012.   Click here  & here for the WP version  

  • “The Appropriateness of the Poolability Assumption for Multiproduct Technologies: Evidence from the English Water and Sewerage Utilities” (with A. Bottasso, M. Piacenza and D. Vannoni), International Journal of Production Economics, 130, 1, 2011. click here & here for the WP version  

  •  “The Productive Effect of Transport Infrastructures: Does Road Transport Liberalization Matter?”  (with A. Bottasso),  Journal of Regulatory Economics, 38, 1, 2010.Click here & here for the WP version

  •    “Price Cap Regulation and the Ratchet Effect: A Generalized Index Approach” (with A. Bottasso), Journal of Productivity Analysis, 32, 3, 2009.Click here 

  •  “Scale Economies, Technology and Technical Change in the Water Industry: Evidence from the English Water Only Sector” (with A. Bottasso), in Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2, 2009.Click here

  •  “Efficiency Incentives for a Regulated Monopoly: Some Lessons from the English and Welsh Water Industry”, (with A. Bottasso), in Rivista di Politica Economica, VII-VIII, 2007.  A previous version of this paper circulated as “Cost Inefficiency in the English and Welsh Water Industry: An Heteroskedastic Stochastic Cost Frontier Approach” (with A Bottasso), University of Essex Discussion Papers, 573, 2003. click here

• • “Reliability of Point Efficiency Estimates in Regulatory Applications.  Evidence from the English and Welsh Water Industry”, in International Journal of Regulation and Governance, 1, 2006.

  • “Ownership Relative Efficiency in the Water Industry: a Survey of the International Empirical Evidence”, Economia Internazionale-International Economics, 58, 3, 2005. Reprinted as "L'efficacité relative du type de propriété dans le secteur de l'eau", Problém économiques, 2006.Click here

Papers on Transportation and Regional Economics

• • "Institutions Matter. The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Political Trust of Young Europeans", (with A.Bottasso and G. Cerruti.) Journal of Regional Science, 4, 62., 2022. Click here

  • "Roads to Innovation. Evidence from Italy" (with A. Bottasso, S. Robbiano & M. Santagata), Journal of Regional Science, 4, 62, 2022. Click here

  • "Roads to Development. The Brazilian Way", with A. Bottasso, C. Ferrari, P. Costacurta and A. Tei, forthcoming in Research in Transportation Economics, 2021. Click here

  • "Port Infrastructures and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Brazil" (with A. Bottasso, C. Ferrari, P. Costacurta and A. Tei), Transportation Research Part A, 107, 2018. Click here

  • "Ports and Local Development: a Spatial Analysis on a Panel of European Regions" (with A. Bottasso, C. Ferrari e A. Tei), Transportation Research Part A, 65, 2014. Click here & here 

  • “The Impact of Port Throughput on Local Employment: Evidence from a Panel of European Regions", (with A. Bottasso, C. Ferrari, O. Merck and A. Tei), Transport Policy, 27, 2013.  Click here

  • “Productivity Growth and Efficiency in a Sample of Italian Terminal Containers: An Application of Different Stochastic Frontier Models (with A. Bottasso and C. Ferrari), International Journal of Transport Economics, 38, 2, 2011.Click here.   

    Papers on various Applied Economics issues

• • "Borders and Protectionism: US Trade Policy and Its Impact on Law, Economy and International Trade" (with S. Armella), Global Trade and Customs Journal, 15, 2, 2020.Click here 

  • “To Bid or Not to Bid: That Is The Question: Public Procurement, Project Complexity and Corruption” (with S. Baldi, A. Bottasso and C. Piccardo), European Journal of Political Economy, 43, 2016.  Click here and  here

  • "R&D, Innovation and Knowledge Spillovers: a Reappraisal of Bottazzi and Peri (2007) in the presence of Cross Sectional Dependence" (with A. Bottasso and C. Castagnetti), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 30, 2015. Click here and here

• • "The Introduction of the Euro and Economic Growth: Some Panel Data Evidence", Journal of Applied Economics,XVII, 2, 2014.  Click here &  here. 

  • “And Yet They Co-Move! Public Capital and Productivity in OECD." (with C. Castagnetti and A. Bottasso), in Journal of Policy Modeling, 35, 5, 2013.   Click here  & here for the WP

  •  “The Italian Productivity Decline: Evidence from Regional Data”, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 68, 3, 2009

Other refereed publications 

• • "Transport Infrastructure and Trade: A Survey of the Empirical Literature", Economia Internazionale-International Economics, 75, 4, 2022 

  • "Economie di Integrazione Verticale ed Economia di Scopo nel Settore Idrico e Fognario: Alcune Considerazioni alla Luce dell'Evidenza Empirica Internazionale" (with A. Bottasso), Economia Pubblica, 3, 2021. Click here 

  • "Effetti della caduta del Ponte Morandi sull'economia (with Beltrametti L., Bottasso A., Ferrari C. and Piana M.), Rivista di Economia e Politica dei Trasporti, 2, 2018. Click here

  • “Modalità di affidamento dei lavori pubblici. Un'analisi empirica su dati italiani (with S. Baldi, A. Bottasso and C. Piccardo), L'Industria, 4, 2014.Click here

  •  “Alcune riflessioni sulla pratica regolatoria, con riferimento ad alcuni settori trasportistici"   (with A. Bottasso, C. Ferrari e A. Tei), Rivista di Economia e Politica dei Trasporti, 3, 2013.Click here

  •  “Una Nota sul Servizio Idrico Italiano Dopo i Referendum del Giugno 2011" (with A. Bottasso), in Economia e Diritto del Terziario, 2, 2012. Click here

  •  “Concorrenza e Regolazione nel Settore Aeroportuale in Europa" (with A. Bottasso),  in Mercato Concorrenza e Regole, 1, 2012. Click here   

• •  “La Governance del Settore Idrico Italiano e le Recenti Riforme dei Servizi Pubblici Locali: Molto Rumore Per Nulla?", (with A. Bottasso), in Economia dei Servizi, 2, 2011. Click here

  •  “La Yardstick Competition nel Settore Idrico: una Applicazione Econometrica ed Alcune Riflessioni sul Caso Inglese” (with T. Caliman). L’ Industria, 2, 2009.Click here

  • “Economie di Scala e Densità nel Settore Idrico: Ulteriore Evidenza Empirica dall’Inghilterra” (with A. Bottasso), Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, 2, 2008.Click here

  • “La Performance dell’Industria Idrica Inglese. Un’ analisi critica a 15 anni dalla Privatizzazione”, with Amato A. and Bottasso A., in Economia e Politica Industriale, 2, 2006.

BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS 

• • "Contrattazione integrativa e performance aziendale:un confronto tra la Sardegna e altre realtà durante la crisi" (with G. Cardullo and G. Sulis). Published in Autori vari, Economia della Sardegna. 27 Rapporto, 2020.Click here

  • "Economic Role of Transport infrastructure. Theory and Models" (with A. Bottasso, C. Ferrari and A. Tei). Elsevier, 2019. Click here

  • "The Cost Structure of the Airport Industry: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence" (with A. Bottasso). Published in John D. Bitzan , James H. Peoples (ed.) The Economics of Airport Operations (Advances in Airline Economics, Volume 6) Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.181 - 212, 2017.Click here

• • "Inefficienza Allocativa, Sindacato e Contrattazione Decentrata: il Caso Italiano" ( with A. Bottasso and G. Sulis).Published in Salari, Produttività e Disuguaglianze. Verso un Nuovo Modello Contrattuale?, (a cura di Dell'Aringa, Lucifora, Treu)  Arel-Il Mulino, 2017.Click here

  •  The Economics of the Water Industry: Technology, Ownership and Efficiency (with A. Amato), Milan, Franco Angeli, 2005     

REPORTS 

• • "Regional state aid: a toolbox on counterfactual impact evaluation"  (with Giua L., Ferrara A. and Ferraresi M.), JRC Technical Report 125911 (2021). EU restricted document prepared for DG Comp. 

  • "Evolution and Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency on Italian Non-financial Corporations" (with various authors), Cerved, 2020.

  • "“Impact of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Growth” (with N. Afraz, Aquilina M. and Lilico A.), 2006. Annex 6 to Final Report of COMPETE: Analysis of the Contribution of Transport Policies to the Competitiveness of the EU Economy and Comparison with the United States, KIarlsruhe, ISI.