Research
Publications
Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans (joint with Paolo Falco and Babak Somekh), Journal of Population Economics, 37(39), 1-20, 2024. doi: 10.1007/s00148-024-01021-y
Media coverage: Basketball Illuminati 28/10/2022, Marginal Revolution 08/11/2022, True Hoop 09/11/2022.
The reassuring effect of firms' technological innovations on workers' job insecurity (joint with Andrea Fracasso, Arianna Marcolin and Sergio Scicchitano), International Journal of Manpower, 45(4), 754-778, 2024. doi: 10.1108/IJM-02-2023-0072
Media coverage: Menabò di Etica ed Economia (IT) 14/02/2022, Lavoce (IT) 15/02/2022, LSE Business Review 21/06/2024.
When the Stadium Goes Silent: How Crowds Affect the Performance of Discriminated Groups (joint with Paolo Falco and Gianpiero Mattera), Journal of Labor Economics, 41(2), 431-451, 2023. doi: 10.1086/719967
Media coverage: Il Napolista (IT) 30/06/2021, Weekendavisen (DK) 08/07/2021, Lavoce (IT) 09/07/2021, New York Times 16/07/2021, VoxEU 22/07/2021, Atlantico (FR) 26/07/2021, BBC Brasil (PT) 22/05/2023.
Labour Market Power and the Quest for an Optimal Minimum Wage: Evidence from Italy (joint with Jasmine Mondolo and Stefano Schiavo), Applied Economics, 55(15), 1713-1727, 2023. doi: 10.1080/00036846.2022.2099523
Media coverage: Lavoce (IT) 02/11/2021.
Your vote is (no) secret! How low voter density harms anonymity and biases elections in Italy (joint with Paolo Falco), European Journal of Political Economy, 75, 102191, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2022.102191
From the lockdown to the new normal: An analysis of the limitations to individual mobility in Italy following the Covid-19 crisis (joint with Andrea Fracasso and Sergio Scicchitano), Journal of Population Economics, 35, 1517-1550, 2022. doi: 10.1007/s00148-022-00891-4
Media coverage: Lavoce (IT) 30/10/2020.
COVID-19 and Technology (joint with Andrea Fracasso), in Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 1-34, 2022, Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_331-1
Access to Banking and the Role of Inequality and the Financial Crisis (joint with Babak Somekh), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 21 (4), 1373-1410, 2021. doi: 10.1515/bejeap-2020-0421
Robots and risk of Covid-19 contagion in the workplace: Evidence from Italy (joint with Andrea Fracasso and Silvio Traverso), Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 173, 121097, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121097
Trade policy and firm performance: introduction to the special section (joint with Andrea Fracasso and Stefano Schiavo), Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 38, 1-6, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s40888-021-00216-w
Imports and Labour Market Imperfections: Firm-Level Evidence from France (joint with Lionel Nesta and Stefano Schiavo), European Economic Review, 131, 103632, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103632
Exceptional performance of multinational suppliers: Theory and evidence (joint with Van Pham and Alan Woodland), Review of World Economics, 157, 221-269, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s10290-020-00399-7
Globalization, robotization and electoral outcomes: Evidence from spatial regressions for Italy (joint with Andrea Fracasso and Silvio Traverso), Journal of Regional Science, 61(1), 86-111, 2021. doi: 10.1111/jors.12503
Mitigation of risks of Covid-19 contagion and robotisation: Evidence from Italy (joint with Andrea Fracasso and Silvio Traverso), Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, 17, 174-188, 13 May 2020.
Markups, import competition and exporting (joint with Stefano Schiavo), The World Economy, 43, 1309-1326, 2020. doi: 10.1111/twec.12935
Globalization and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from Italy (joint with Andrea Fracasso and Silvio Traverso), Economics & Politics, 32, 68-103, 2020. doi: 10.1111/ecpo.12147
Markups and markdowns (joint with Lionel Nesta and Stefano Schiavo), Economics Letters, 173, 104-107, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.09.026
Do all imports matter for productivity? Intermediate inputs vs capital goods, Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 35(2), 285-311, 2018. doi: 10.1007/s40888-017-0071-5
Multi-product exporters, variable markups and exchange rate fluctuations (joint with Arpita Chatterjee and Alan Woodland), Canadian Journal of Economics, 50(4), 1130-1160, 2017. doi: 10.1111/caje.12289
Trade, skill-biased technical change and wages in Mexican manufacturing, Applied Economics, 46(3), 336-348, 2014. doi: 10.1080/00036846.2013.848033
Credit constraints, inequality and the growth gains from trade, Economics Letters, 121(1), 43-47, 2013. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.06.038
Does wealth inequality reduce the gains from trade?, Review of World Economics, 148(2), 333-356, 2012. doi: 10.1007/s10290-012-0119-0
Working Papers and Work in Progress
What workers and robots do: An activity-based analysis of the impact of robotization on changes in local employment (joint with Andrea Fracasso, Sergio Scicchitano, Silvio Traverso and Enrico Tundis), R&R Research Policy.
Media coverage: La Repubblica (IT) 06/05/2021, La Stampa (IT) 06/05/2021, Lavoce (IT) 07/06/2021.
Digital technologies and firms' employment and training (joint with Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï, Andrea Fracasso and Sergio Scicchitano), April 2024.
Productivity and Quality of Multi-Product Firms (joint with Arpita Chatterjee and Shengyu Li), June 2023.
Consumer Preferences for Migrant and Native Workers: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment (joint with Paolo Falco), November 2023.
Media coverage: Politiken (DK) 25/10/2020, 26/10/2020, 27/10/2020.
Anti-dumping and product quality (joint with Jiuli Huang, Chiara Tomasi and Min Zhu), October 2023.
Competition, Productivity and Product Mix: The Effect of China on Mexican Firms (joint with Arpita Chatterjee and Scott French).
Foreign Competition, Skill Premium, and Product Quality: Impact of Chinese Competition on Mexican Plants (joint with Thi Hang Banh).
Technological Innovations and Workers’ Job Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Firm Strategies (joint with Andrea Fracasso, Arianna Marcolin and Sergio Scicchitano).
4IR technology adoption and heterogeneous absorptive capacity: The role of leadership (joint with Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï, Andrea Fracasso and Sergio Scicchitano).
Labour market power and labour market reforms in Italy across worker types (joint with Andrea Locatelli and Stefano Schiavo).
Heterogeneous labour market power and migration: Evidence from French manufacturing firms (joint with Matthias Mertens, Lionel Nesta and Stefano Schiavo).
Migration and import competition from low-wage countries: Evidence from Italy (joint with Silvio Traverso).
Older Working Papers
Trade liberalisation, skill-biased technical change and wages in developing countries: a model with heterogeneous firms, CSAE Working Paper Series 2010-27