RESEARCH PAPERS
I measure the general equilibrium effects of workers’ mobility across regions characterized by different productivity levels through the lens of a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers and firms estimated using administrative data.
Refining Public Policies with Machine Learning: The Case of Tax Auditing The Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming link (open access)
with Marco Battaglini, Luigi Guiso, Douglas L. Miller and Eleonora Patacchini
Available as NBER WP 30777 and CEPR DP17796.
We measure substantial gains in tax evasion recovery by improving the selection of audits with Machine Learning. We address the problem of selective labels without the need for randomized audits.
with Marco Battaglini, Luigi Guiso and Eleonora Patacchini - Supplementary Online Appendix
Previous version available as NBER WP 25745 and CEPR DP13656. Profiled in VoxEU, Il Foglio
We document the existence of a market for intermediated tax evasion in which taxpayers who intend to evade taxation sort towards tolerant tax advisors, and tax advisors act as information hubs, gathering privileged information on the auditing policy.
Awarded the XIV Fabio Gobbo Doctoral Prize of the Italian Society for Industrial Economics and Policy
I introduce a framework to measure the contribution of different determinants of productivity differentials between regions using matched employer-employee data.
Opting Out of Centralized Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Italy
with Christian Dustmann, Chiara Giannetto, Lorenzo Incoronato, Vincenzo Pezone, Raffaele Saggio and Benjamin Schoefer
Draft available upon request
We show that decentralizing collective bargaining agreements results in a concurrent decrease in the workers' wages and an increase in their probability of remaining employed.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Working Hours and the Child Penalty in an Equilibrium Household Search Model
with Alessandro Di Nola, Leo Kaas and Haomin Wang
Skill Upgrading during the Pandemic Recession: Evidence from Italy
with Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Lisa Kahn
Local Governors as Tax Enforcers
with Giulia Olivero