Selected Publications
NEW 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), Research Policy, 54(1), 105135, 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105135
Media coverage: La Repubblica (IT) 06/05/2021, La Stampa (IT) 06/05/2021, Lavoce (IT) 07/06/2021.
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.
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, Faculti 07/02/2024.
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.
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
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
Other Publications
Labour market frictions across worker types (joint with Andrea Locatelli and Stefano Schiavo), Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, forthcoming, 2025. doi: 10.1007/s40888-025-00376-z
Technological Innovations and Workers’ Job Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Human Resource Strategies (joint with Andrea Fracasso, Arianna Marcolin and Sergio Scicchitano), Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 52, 153-176, 2025. doi: 10.1007/s40812-024-00329-w
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.
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.
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
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
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
NEW Under Pressure: Trade Competition from Low-Wage Countries and Demand from Immigrant Labor in Italy (joint with Silvio Traverso), revise & resubmit, Journal of Population Economics.
NEW Productivity and Quality of Multi-Product Firms (joint with Arpita Chatterjee and Shengyu Li), August 2025.
Technological Opportunities, Firm Leadership, and Absorptive Capacity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (joint with Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï, Andrea Fracasso and Sergio Scicchitano), revise & resubmit, Eurasian Business Review.
Anti-dumping and product quality (joint with Jiuli Huang, Chiara Tomasi and Min Zhu).
Digital technologies and firms' employment and training (joint with Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï, Andrea Fracasso and Sergio Scicchitano), April 2024.
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.
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).
The Impact of New Digital Technologies: Evidence at the Occupational Level (joint with Enrico Cristofoletti and Andrea Fracasso).
Who Benefits from Immigration? Firm Responses to Immigration under Imperfect Input Markets (joint with Matthias Mertens, Lionel Nesta and Stefano Schiavo).
Labour market power and labour market reforms: Evidence from Italy (joint with Andrea Locatelli and Stefano Schiavo).
Ultra-fast Broadband Access, Farms' Productivity and Markups (joint with Carlo Cambini, Edwin Fourrier-Nicolaï and Lorien Sabatino).