Research

In progress

Applied political economy

• • The Value of Institutional Capture: Evidence from the Florentine Republic (1393-1480) (with F. Drago, M. Fochesato, and R. Galbiati), Submitted. Previous version: CEPR Discussion Paper No. 17456 (2023)

International trade, institutions, and culture

• Entrepreneurship and Migration: Evidence from the Huguenots’ Exodus (with M. Rota and J. Weisdorf), Coming soon.

Publications

Applied political economy

• Multigenerational Transmission of Wealth: Florence 1403-1480 (with F. Drago, M. Fochesato, and R. Galbiati), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 16, n. 2 (2024): 99-129

• Law, Human Capital, and the Emergence of Free City-States in Medieval Italy (with F. Drago and R. Galbiati), European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 56 (2023): 199-223 

• Earthquakes, Religion, and Transitions to Self-government in Italian Cities (with F. Drago and R. Galbiati), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 131, n. 4 (2016): 1875-1926

• Voting Behavior and the Terrestial Digital Divide, Economics Letters, vol. 167 (2018): 14-17

Labor economics

• • Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining (with P. Naticchioni and C. Vittori), Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 23, n. 1 (2023): 25–50

  • Unemployment by Gender and Gender Catching-Up: Empirical Evidence from the Italian Regions (with R. Tilli), Papers in Regional Science, vol. 92, n. 3 (2013): 481-494

International trade, institutions, and culture

• Persistence and Change in Culture and Institutions under Autarchy, International Trade, and Factor Mobility (with S. Bowles), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 9, n. 4 (2017): 245-76

• Information for Sale in the European Union, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 120 (2015): 130-144

• The Persistence of Inferior Cultural-Institutional Conventions (with S. Bowles), American Economic Review, P&P, vol. 103, n. 3 (2013): 93-98 

• Cross-Cultural Trade and Institutional Stability, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Topics), vol. 9, n. 1 (2009): article 34

• International Specialization and Labor Unions: Evidence from OECD Countries, Review of International Economics, vol. 17, n. 1 (2009): 34–50

• Special Interest Groups and Trade Policy in the EU (with P. Guerrieri), Open Economies Review, vol. 19, n. 4 (2008): 457-478

• Institutions and International Trade: a Reconsideration of Comparative Advantage, Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 20, n. 1 (2006), 3-26

Experimental economics

• Intuition and Deliberation in the Stag Hunt Game (with E. Bilancini, L. Boncinelli, and S. D'Alessandro), Scientific Reports, vol. 9, n. 14833 (2019). Longer WP version

Institutional economics

• • Politics-Business Co-evolution Paths: Workers' Organization and Capitalist Concentration (with U. Pagano), International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 33 (2013): 23-36

  • Co-Evolution of Politics and Corporate Governance (with U. Pagano), International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 29 (2009): 106-114

International finance

• • A Two-Country NATREX Model for the Euro/Dollar (with D. Federici), Journal of International Money and Finance, vol. 29, n. 2 (2010): 315-335 

  • Public Investment and Economic Performance in Highly Indebted Poor Countries: an Empirical Assessment (with P. Vertova), International Review of Applied Economics, vol. 20, n. 2 (2006): 151-170

  • The Current Account - Interest Rate Relationship as a Non-linear Phenomenon (with G. Gandolfo), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, vol. 14, n. 2 (2005), 145-166 

  • The Euro/Dollar Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate: a Continuous Time Approach (with D. Federici and G. Gandolfo), Economia politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, vol. XXV, n. 2 (2008): 243-264

Miscellanea

• • Impact of ICT Diffusion and Adoption on Sectoral Industrial Performance: Evidence from a Panel of European Countries (with P. Guerrieri), Economia politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, vol. 32, n. 1 (2015): 67-84

  • Technology and the Environment in the History of Economic Thought (with S. D'Alessandro, M. Di Maio, F. Drago, and P. Vertova), International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, vol. 8, n. 4 (2008): 311-334 

Books

• Fondamenti di Economia Internazionale - Seconda edizione (with G. Gandolfo), textbook of international economics for undergraduate studies. UTET – De Agostini, Turin (2021)

• Fondamenti di Economia Internazionale (with G. Gandolfo), textbook of international economics for undergraduate studies. UTET – De Agostini, Turin (2009)

Book chapters

• • Survey of the literature on successful strategies and practices for export promotion by developing countries (with M. Di Maio), in Economic challenges and policy issues in early twenty-first-century Sierra Leone, ed. by O.E.G. Johnson, International Growth Centre: 226-277 (2012)

  • Gruppi di interesse e politica commerciale dell’Unione europea (with P. Guerrieri), in Il Doha Round e il Wto: Una valutazione quantitativa degli scenari di liberalizzazione commerciale, ed. by P. Guerrieri and L. Salvatici, Il Mulino: 251-269 (2008)

Encyclopedic entries

• • Lessico dell'Economia, Treccani - Enciclopedia Italiana. Entries: Behavioral economics, Neuroeconomics, Social preferences (2012) 

Policy reports

• • Sierra Leone's National Export Strategy: Implementation Issues and Reccomendations (with M. Di Maio), International Growth Centre  11/1018 - Jan (2012)