Political Rhetoric and Racial Discrimination in Arrests for Drugs

Forthcoming at The Economic Journal

Joint with Francesco Barilari 

[Article ]

[Media Coverage] [Promarket]

Spatial Inequality in Unsolved Crimes

Journal of Regional Science (2025), 65(1), 123-145

Joint with Nils Braakmann and Bahadir Dursun 

[Article ]

Externalizing rescue operations at sea: The migration deal between Italy and Libya

Journal of Economic Geography (2025),  25(1), 41–58

Joint with Emanuele Albarosa 

[Article ]

Offshore finance and corruption in oil licensing

Energy Economics (2024), 137, 107787 

Joint with Giovanna Marcolongo 

[Article] 

Drugs on the Web, Crime in the Streets

The Impact of Shutdowns of Dark Net marketplaces on Street Crime

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2022),  202, 274-306.

Winner of the Conniffe prize for the best paper by a young economist, Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2021

[Media Coverage] [LSE Business Review]

The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana a Positive Local Amenity?

Economic Inquiry (2020), 58(2), 667-679 

Joint with Steven Stillman

[Media Coverage] [CATO Research Briefs][Weedmaps][IDW (in German)]

                                    [Salto.bz (in German) ]

Media and Crime: Evidence from the Publicising of Gang Territories

Joint with Nils Braakmann

[Working Paper] 

[Status] Submitted to a journal

Identity Rhetoric and Tax Evasion

Joint with Francesco Barilari, Francesca Maria Calamunci , Federico Fabio Frattini
[Working Paper] 

[Status] Submitted to a journal

Sanction Evasion Through Tax Havens

Joint with Kerim Can Kavakli and Giovanna Marcolongo 

[Working Paper] 

The death of the “High Street”? Main street closures, social disorder and urban change

Joint with Nils Braakmann

[Status] R&R at Journal of Urban Economics

Youth Courts and Recidivism

Joint with Nils Braakmann and Bahadir Dursun

[Status] Submitted to a journal

Guns, Germs, and Murders

Joint with Silvia Pedersoli and Paolo Pinotti 

[Status] Presented at the The Economics of Firearm Markets, Crime, and Gun Violence, NBER Spring 2024 meeting