Publications
Selected journal articles
Substitution Effects in Intertemporal Problems (with D. Dragone), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14(3), 2022, 791-809 [Working Paper]
Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana (with D. Dragone, G. Prarolo and G. Zanella), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 159, 2019, 488-501 [pdf]
Social Closure, Surnames and Crime (with P. Buonanno), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137, 2017, 160-175 [pdf]
Terrorism Risk and Democratic Preferences in Pakistan (with F. U. Rehman), Journal of Development Economics, 124, 2017, 95-106 [pdf]
Organized Crime and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from Sicily at the Turn of the XXI century (with P. Buonanno and G. Prarolo), European Journal of Political Economy, 41, 2016, 61-74 [pdf]
Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse in the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia (with P. Buonanno, R. Durante and G. Prarolo), Economic Journal, 125(586), 2015, F175-F202 [pdf, Online Appendix]
Market Distortions and Government Transparency (with F. Albornoz and J. Esteban), Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(1), 2014, 200-222 [pdf, Online Appendix]
"Thou Shalt Not Covet": Prohibitions, Temptation and Moral Values (with M. Cervellati), Journal of Public Economics, 103, 2013, 15-28 [pdf, Supplementary Material]
Crime and Social Sanction (with P. Buonanno and G. Pasini), Papers in Regional Science, 91(1), 2012, 193-218 [pdf]
Trade Protection and Industrial Structure (with F. Albornoz), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 10(1) (Topics), 2010, Article 57 [pdf]
Does Social Capital Reduce Crime? (with P. Buonanno and D. Montolio), Journal of Law and Economics, 52(1), 2009, 145-170 [pdf]
Social Capital Accumulation and the Evolution of Social Participation (with A. Antoci e P. L. Sacco), Journal of Socio-Economics, 36(1), 2007, 128-143 [pdf]
Other publications
Books
Refereed journals
Economic Behavior under the Influence of Alcohol: An Experiment on Time Preferences, Risk-Taking, and Altruism (with L. Corazzini and A. Filippin), PLoS ONE, 10(4), 2015: e0121530, 1-25 [pdf]
Bowling Alone, Drinking Together (with P. Buonanno), Empirical Economics, 44(3), 2013, 1635-1672 [pdf]
Goyal, S.: Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks, Journal of Economics, 95(1), 2008, 83-86 [pdf]
Expert and Peer Pressure in Food and Wine Tasting: Evidence from a Pilot Experiment (with P. Buonanno, G. Caggiano, M. Galizzi and L. Leonida), Enometrica 1(1), 2008, 51-68
Participation, Growth and Social Poverty: Social Capital in a Homogeneous Society (with A. Antoci and P. L. Sacco), Open Economics Journal, 1, 2008, 1-13 [pdf]
Network interaction with material and relational goods: an exploratory simulation (with P. L. Sacco), Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 71(2), 2000, 229-259 [pdf]
Book chapters (international publishers)
The Changing Nature of Economics of Crime (with P. Buonanno and J.F. Vargas), in Buonanno, P., Vanin, P. and Vargas, J. (eds.), A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 1-11 [pdf]
Organized Crime, State, and the Legitimate Monopoly of Violence (with T.E. Murphy ), in Buonanno, P., Vanin, P. and Vargas, J. (eds.), A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 374-393 [e-book chapter]
Social and Civil Capital, in L. Bruni and S. Zamagni (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of Reciprocity and Social Enterprise, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2013, 306-317
The Economics of Human Relationships (with P. L. Sacco and S. Zamagni), in S-C. Kolm and J. Mercier Ythier (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity, Volume 1, Amsterdam, Elsevier North Holland, 2006, 695-730
On the Possible Conflict Between Economic Growth and Social Development (with A. Antoci and P. L. Sacco), in B. Gui and R. Sugden (eds.), Economics and Social Interaction: Accounting for Interpersonal Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 150-173
Other
La necesidad del capital social para el desarrollo económico, Ensayos de Política Económica, 5, 2011, 119-126
Capitale sociale, in L. Bruni and S. Zamagni (eds.), Dizionario di economia civile, Città Nuova, Roma, 2009, 146-151
Industrial Organization, Trade and Social Capital, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Ph.D. thesis, 2007 [pdf]
Partecipazione sociale, scelte auto-protettive e crescita economica, Il Risparmio, 53(2), 2005, 29-49
Il rischio dell’impoverimento sociale nelle economie avanzate (with A. Antoci and P. L. Sacco), in P. L. Sacco, S. Zamagni (eds.), Complessità relazionale e comportamento economico. Materiali per un nuovo paradigma di razionalità, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2002, 395-429
Dilemma del prigioniero triangolare: un modello di simulazione dell'influenza reciproca fra la struttura sociale e l'interazione individuale (with P. L. Sacco), Sociologia e Politiche Sociali, 3(1), 2000, 113-144 [pdf]