Areas of interest
Applied microeconomics, Institutional economics and Economic history, Public economics
Working papers
- Procurement managers and effective tendering: The case of Italian public works contracts (with Audinga Baltrunaite, Enza Maltese, and Gabriele Rovigatti), CEPR Discussion Paper n. 19977, 2025
[Previous version (Bank of Italy Occasional Papers n. 803, 2023) available here]
Publications
- The joint determination of the payment method and the bid premium in M&As: What is the role of firm opacity? (with Pierpaolo Battigalli, Carlo Chiarella and Stefano Gatti), European Financial Management, 30(7), 2024
[Previous version (IGIER Working Paper n. 596, 2017) available here]
- The making of public works in Italy: institutional features and regional characteristics (with Audinga Baltrunaite and Gabriele Rovigatti), Italian Economic Journal, 2023
[Working paper version (Bank of Italy Occasional Papers n. 659, 2021) available here]
- State formation, social unrest and cultural distance: brigandage in post-unification Italy (with Giampaolo Lecce and Laura Ogliari), Journal of Economic Growth, 27, 2022
[Working paper version (CEPR Discussion Paper n. 17809) available here]
- Discretion and supplier selection in public procurement (with Audinga Baltrunaite, Cristina Giorgiantonio, and Sauro Mocetti), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 37(1), 2021
[Working paper version (Bank of Italy Working Paper n. 1178, 2018) available here]
[VoxEU article available here]
[lavoce.info article (in Italian) available here]
- Corruption, workforce selection and mismatch in the public sector (with Sauro Mocetti), European Journal of Political Economy, 60, 2019
[Working paper version (Bank of Italy Occasional Papers n. 402, 2017) available here ]