Publications

“Campaign Contributions and Legislative Behaviour: Evidence from U.S. Congress”. Journal of Public Economics, 243 (2025): 105319. 

Working Papers

“Income Inequality and Campaign Contributions: Evidence from the 1986 Reagan Tax Cut”, with Valentino Larcinese. Submitted. International Inequality Institute, Working Paper 87. Last version available here

"Why Artificial Intelligence is not a Salient Issue: Politicizing AI Reduces Mobilization Potential", with Giacomo Battiston, Federico Boffa, Eugenio Levi and Steven Stillman. Submitted. Last version available here

“Brains or Muscles? A Political Economy of Capital Tax Evasion”, with Arduino Tomasi. Submitted. Last version available here

Work in Progress

"Individual Campaign Contributions: The Informational Channel".

"Corporate Political Influence and Workforce Mobilization: The Role of Monopsony Power", with Tommaso Crescioli.

"The Inequality of Campaign Contributions, 1979-2020: An Historical Perspective", with Valentino Larcinese and Marco Ranaldi.

"The Ideological Polarization of Individual Donors".

“Who Donates to Political Parties?: An Analysis on Company and Individual Donations in the UK 2001-2021”, with Jonathan Hopkin and Max Kiefel. (Preliminary results presented in a LSE public event here)

"The Political Economy of Crime and Immigration News: Evidence from Italian Television”.