research

publications

• “Risky Allocations from a Risk Neutral Informed Principal” (2005), Review of Economic Design, 9:191-202.

•  “Hierarchical contracting in grant decisions: ex-ante and ex-post evaluation in the context of the EU structural funds.” (2007) (con Massimo Florio) UNIMI - Research Papers in Economics, Business, and Statistics. Economics. Working Paper 22. (anche DEMS Working Paper 171)

•  “Informed Principal with Correlation” , (2008) Games and Economic Behavior  64(2): 433-456

•  “Monitoring Subcontracting in a Suppliers’ Hierarchy” (2011) Oxford Economic Papers, 63 (3): 523-548.

•  “Equilibrium Principal-Agent Contracts” (2013) (con F. Etro) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy , 22 (3): 488-512

•  "Contract competition between hierarchies, managerial compensation and imperfectly correlated shocks” (2016) (con F.Etro) Journal of Economics 118(3):193-218

• “Do the Right Thing – Incentives for policy selection in presidential and parliamentary systems” (2017) (con  G. Iannantuoni and E.Manzoni), Economica 84: 430-453

• "It’s a Matter of Confidence- Institutions, government stability and economic outcomes.”  (2021) (con L. Bettarelli, G. Iannantuoni and E. Manzoni) Economia Politica 38:709-738

• "Gender bias and women political performance" (2023) (con E. Manzoni) European Journal of Political Economy, 102314

• "Europe" (2023) (con E.Manzoni) in Women and Politics: Global Lives in Focus (Women and Society around the World), ABC-Clio 

working papers

•  Issue salience and women’s electoral performance: Theory and evidence from Google trends (2023)