Current research

Peer reviewed publications

• Pandemic Distress and Anti-Immigration Sentiment, Economica 2024; with Gianmarco Daniele (U of Milan & Bocconi U), Francesco Passarelli (U of Turin & Bocconi U), Willem Sas (Stirling U & KU Leuven) and Lisa Windsteiger (Salzburg U);  SSRN WP 2020

• Inequality Shapes the propagation of unethical behaviours: Cheating Responses to Tax Evasion Along the Income Distribution, J of Economic Behavior and Organization 2024; with Lisa Windsteiger (Salzburg U); SSRN WP 2022

• Organised Crime, Violence and Support for the State, J of Public Economics 2023, with Gian Maria Campedelli (U of Trento), Gianmarco Daniele (U of Milan & Bocconi U), Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi U); SSRN WP 2023

• Institutional Quality Causes Social Trust: Experimental Evidence on Trusting Under the Shadow of Doubt, American J of Political Science 2023, with Sverker Jagers (U of Gothenburg), Marina Povitkina (U of Oslo and U of Gothenburg) and Bo Rothstein (U of Gothenburg); SSRN WP 2020

• Immigration  vs. Poverty: Causal Impact on Demand for Redistribution in a Survey Experiment, European J of Political Economy 2022,
  with Lisa Windsteiger (Salzburg U); SSRN WP 2019. Press: Süddeutsche Zeitung

• Do What (You Think) the Rich Will Do: Inequality and Belief Formation in Public Goods Provision, J of Economic Psychology 2021,
  SSRN WP 2017, in the press

• Last Word Not Yet Spoken: A Reinvestigation of Last Place Aversion with Aversion to Rank Reversals, Experimental Economics 2020,
  with Lisa Windsteiger (Salzburg U); SSRN WP 2019, Press: Der Standard

• We, the Rich: Inequality, Identity and Cooperation, J of Economic Behavior and Organization 2020,
  with Peter Martinsson (U of Gothenburg); SSRN WP 2019

Policy papers

• Organized Crime, Violence and Support for the State, VoxEU (CEPR Policy Portal) 2024

• Covid-19 and socio-political attitudes in Europe: In competence we trust, VoxEU (CEPR Policy Portal) 2020

Working papers

• Are Bad Institutions Always Bad for Society? Trust and Cooperation in Times of Crisis, CESifo WP 2025, with Piero Conzo (U of Turin), Gianmarco Daniele (U of Milan and Bocconi U) and Willem Sas (Stirling U & Hasselt U)

• Breaking Negative Narratives in Low-Trust Environments: Institutional quality and institutional trust; with Gianmarco Daniele (U of Milan and Bocconi U) and Federica Braccioli (U of Vienna)

• Efficiency, dishonesty and cooperation in corrupt settings: an experimental investigation; with Sverker Jagers (U of Gothenburg) and Marina Povitkina (U of Oslo and U of Gothenburg)

• Externalities and the Erosion of Trust, CESifo WP 2023; with Gianmarco Daniele (U of Milan & Bocconi U), Francesco Passarelli (U of Turin & Bocconi U), Willem Sas (Stirling U & Hasselt U) and Lisa Windsteiger (Salzburg U) (Old title: Polarization in Trust)

• The influence premium of monetary rank, SSRN WP 2021; with Biljana Meiske (CNR Roma)