Publications
"Bidding on Price and Quality: An Experiment on the Complexity of Scoring Rule Auctions" (with P. Valbonesi, L. Corazzini and S. Galavotti - 2025), The Review of Economics and Statistics doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01288 (WORKING PAPER)
"Purchasing Medical Devices: The Role of Buyer Competence and Discretion" (with P. Valbonesi and A. Bucciol - 2020) Journal of Health Economics doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102370 (WORKING PAPER)
"Setting Reserve Prices in Repeated Procurement Auctions" (with S. Atmaca, E. Podkolzina, K. Schoors, P. Valbonesi - 2025), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2024-0421 (WORKING PAPER)
"Recent regulatory reforms in Italian public procurement: an empirical analysis on their impact" (with A. Bafundi and P. Valbonesi, 2025), Economia Italiana, doi.org/10.57621/EI2024-03-S-03
"Buyer’s discretion in Russian public procurement during the Covid-19 emergency" (with E. Podkolzina and P. Valbonesi, 2021) - CEPR Ebook Discretion, Efficiency and Abuse in Public Procurement in Ordinary and Extra-Ordinary Times, Editors: Oriana Bandiera, Erica Bosio and Giancarlo Spagnolo DOWNLOAD
"Mapping fuel poverty risk at municipal level: a small scale analysis on Italian Energy Performance Certificates, Census and Survey data" (with A. Corsini, R. Miniaci and P. Valbonesi - 2021) Energy Policy doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112324 (WORKING PAPER )
"Temporary Partnership and Subcontracting: Pre- vs post-award outsourcing in public procurement" (with L. Rondi and P. Valbonesi - 2021) - European Journal of Political Economy doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101950
"Incumbent and entrants' bidding in scoring rule auctions: an analysis on Italian canteens' services" (with P. Valbonesi - 2020) B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2019-0146 (WORKING PAPER)
"Procuring price and quality using scoring auctions: where do we stand?" (2017) Econ Polit Ind doi.org/10.1007/s40812-017-0088-3
"The resource curse, rule of law and accountability in African countries: a dynamic panel analys" (with R. Ricciuti, 2014), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 34 No. 3 pp. 1905-1916.
Working Papers and submitted research
"CO2 Emissions Reduction from Residential Buildings: Cost Estimate and Policy Design" (with A. Corsini, R. Miniaci and P. Valbonesi) WORKING PAPER SUBMITTED
"Public Procurement and the Risk of Severe Weather Events" (with A. Bafundi, E. Grillo and P. Valbonesi) WORKING PAPER SUBMITTED
"Optimal scoring rule auction with two qualities" (2018) - MIMEO and Supplementary material
Ongoing research
"Decentralized procurement for drugs and centralized price cap: a structural approach." (with D. Martimort, P. Gagnepain and P. Valbonesi)
"Bid-preferences as Incentive for Innovation: Experimental Evidence" (with L. Corazzini, S. Galavotti and P. Valbonesi)
"Government purchase and firms’ innovation: an empirical analysis on Russian public procurement for drugs" (with G. Shagbazian, G. Spagnolo, P. Valbonesi).
"Incentives for renewable energy and the equilibrium price of electricity auctions." (with M. Bertolini and F. Manenti)
"Backlog orders and weather suspensions: New evidence from procurement contracts" (with A. Bafundi, C. Ciappei and C. Imperatore).