Selected publications and All publications 


The U.S. economic dynamics and inflation persistence: A regime-switching perspective (with E. Beqiraj and G. Ciccarone), Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming

Structural reforms in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan: A macroeconomic assessment of their potential effects (with P. D'Imperio, Sara D'Andrea, Silvia D'Andrea,  M. Meacci), Journal of Policy Modelling, forthcoming

Optimal monetary policy and the time-dependent price and wage Phillips curves: An international comparison (with C. Serpieri), Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming

A stranger in a strange land: Promises and identity (with G. Charness, S. Papa), Games and Economic Behavior, 144: 13-28, 2024

Promises or agreements? Moral commitments in bilateral communication (with M. Dufwenberg, S. Papa, F. Passarelli), Economics Letters, vol. 222(C), 2023

The fiscal response to the Italian COVID-19 crisis: A counterfactual analysis (with P, D'Imperio, F. Felici), Journal of Macroeconomics, 73, 103447, 2022

“Whatever it takes”: A plea for active monetary policies in the EMU (with P. Canofari, M. Messori), Economics Letters, 208, 2021

The rationale of in-group favoritism: An experimental test of three explanations (with G. Ciccarone, S. Papa), Games and Economic Behavior, 124: 554-568, 2020

Price and wage inflation persistence across countries and monetary regimes (with E. Beqiraj, M. Di Pietro), Journal of International Money and Finance,109, 2020

The sound of silence: A license to be selfish (with M. Dufwenberg, S. Papa), Economics Letters, 182: 68-70, 2019

Promises, expectations & causation (with M. Dufwenberg, S. Papa, F. Passarelli), Games and Economic Behavior, 113: 137-146, 2019

Beliefs formation and the puzzle of forward guidance power (with E. Beqiraj, M. Di Pietro), Journal of Macroeconomics, 60: 20-32, 2019

Rational vs. long-run forecasters: Optimal monetary policy and the role of inequality (with E. Beqiraj, C. Serpieri), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 23: 9-24, 2019

Optimal inflation targeting rule under positive hazard functions for price changes (with M. Di Pietro), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 22: 135-152, 2018

Intrinsic persistence of wage inflation in New Keynesian models of the business cycles (with M. Di Pietro), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 49: 1161-1195, 2017

Optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with heterogeneous expectations (with B. Giannini and M. Di Pietro), Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, 73: 373-387, 2016

Trust and reciprocity: Extensions and robustness of triadic design (with S. Papa), Experimental Economics, 19: 100-115, 2016 

The comeback of inflation as an optimal public finance tool (with N. Acocella, P. Tirelli), International Journal of Central Banking, 11: 43-70, 2015 

US trend inflation reinterpreted: The role of fiscal policies and time-varying nominal rigidities (with N. Acocella, P. Tirelli), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 19: 1294-1308, 2015 

Announcement wars as an equilibrium selection device (with N. Acocella, A. Hughes Hallett, P. Piacquadio), Oxford Economic Papers, 66: 325-347, 2014 

Tinbergen controllability and n-player LQ-games (with N. Acocella, A. Hughes-Hallett), Journal of Macroeconomics, 32: 55-67, 2011 

Fiscal and monetary interaction under monetary policy uncertainty (with F. Giuli), European Journal of Political Economy, 27: 369-375, 2011 

Conflict of interests, (implicit) coalitions and Nash policy games (with N. Acocella, P. Piacquadio), Economics Letters, 105: 303-305, 2009 

The macroeconomics of social pacts (with N. Acocella, P. Tirelli), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 72: 202-213, 2009 

Labor market regimes and the effects of monetary policy (with N. Acocella, D.A. Hibbs), Journal of Macroeconomics, 30: 134-156, 2008 

Dynamic controllability with overlapping targets (with N. Acocella, A. Hughes-Hallett), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 11: 202-213, 2007 

The debates on Rignano’s inheritance tax proposal (with G. Erreygers), History of Political Economy, 18: 605-638, 2007 

Efficacy of monetary policy and limited asset market participation (with L. Rossi), International Journal of Economic Theory, 3: 213-218, 2007 

Monetary conservatism and fiscal coordination in a monetary union (with N. Acocella, P. Tirelli), Economics Letters, 94: 56-63, 2007 

The issue of instability in a simple policy game between the central bank and a representative union (with W. Pauwels), Public Choice, 126: 275-298, 2006 

Tinbergen and Theil meet Nash: Controllability in policy games (with N. Acocella), Economics Letters, 90: 213-218, 2006 

Unions’ inflation aversion and international competitiveness, Journal of Policy Modeling, 27: 137-142, 2005 

Non-neutrality of monetary policy in policy games (with N. Acocella), European Journal of Political Economy, 20: 695-707, 2004