SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Fat Versus Sugar: The Case for a Saturated Fat Tax in Italy.
Health Economics, 2025 [ with V. Di Cosmo ]
The Gray Zone: How Not Imposing a Strict Lockdown at the Beginning of a Pandemic Can Cost Many Lives.
Labour Economics, 2024 [ with F. Crudu, R. Di Stefano and G. Mellace ]
Tax Liability Side Equivalence and Time Delayed Externalities
European Journal of Political Economy, 2022 [ with L. Huang and E. Xiao ]
Rational Addiction and Time Consistency: an Empirical Test
Journal of Health Economics, 2021 [ with L. Piccoli ]
Family Ties and Children Obesity in Italy
Economics and Human Biology, 2021 [with F. Crudu and L. Neri ]
How Hard Is It to Maximize Profit? Evidence from a 19th Century Italian State Monopoly
Oxford Economic Papers , 2021 [with C. Ciccarelli and G. De Fraja ]
A Model of Spontaneous Remission from Addiction
International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics, 2019 [with C. Mocenni and G. Montefrancesco]
The signaling effect of gasoline taxes and its distributional implication
The Journal of Economic Inequality 2019 [with S. F. Verde]
What Can We Learn about Smoking from 150 Years of Italian Data?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2018 [with C. Ciccarelli and P. Pierani]
Time Delay, Complexity and Support for Taxation
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016 [ with E. Xiao]
COMPLETED WORKING PAPERS
Who Stands Up to Persuade? [with L. Huang and E. Xiao] (Revisions requested Economic Inquiry)
Let Them Eat Cake? The Net Consumer Welfare Impact of a Fat Tax [with V. Di Cosmo] (Revisions requested Health Economics)
Eggs when Young, Chicken when Old. Time Consistency and Addiction at Different Stages of the Life Cycle [with L. Piccoli] (Submitted)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Who Needs Sin Taxes ? Self-control and Soft Commitment Devices [with C. Usai and E. Xiao]
Do I Want to Ride My Bicycle? Welfare Effects, Habit Formation and Projection Bias in Cycling (I-RIDE) [with V. Ciriotto, C. Rapallini, S. Verde and C. Usai]
Nudging to Reduce Food Related GHG Emissions: a Field Experiment [with S. Verde]
Make America Cap-and-trade Again (MACA) [with T. Cherry and S. Verde]