Research
Working papers & work-in-progress – a selection
The impact of extreme climate events on income distribution in Italy: a municipality-level analysis (with Demetrio Guzzardi, Matteo Coronese, Francesco Lamperti and Andrea Roventini).
Revisiting the emission-inequality nexus across stages of development (with Tommaso Perniola and Francesco Lamperti).
Decoding drug search under public funding: rates, direction, and social impacts in an agent-based model (with Giovanni Dosi and Andrea Roventini)
Meritocracy's hidden costs: an agent-based model of education, inequality and growth (with Hannah Engljaehringer, Mauro Napoletano and Andrea Roventini)
Dalle Luche, M., Guzzardi, D., Palagi, E., Roventini, A., and Santoro, A. (2024). Tackling the regressivity of the Italian tax system: An optimal taxation framework with heterogeneous returns to capital. Working paper series 2024/26, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Ranaldi, M., and Palagi, E. (2022). Heterogeneity in macroeconomics: the compositional inequality perspective. Working paper series 2022/30, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy.
Publications – in journals
Guzzardi, D., Palagi, E., Roventini, A. and Santoro, A. (2023). Reconstructing income inequality in Italy: new evidence and tax system implications from Distributional National Accounts. Journal of the European Economic Association, jvad073.
Palagi, E., Napoletano, M., Roventini, A. and Gaffard, J.L. (2023). An agent-based model of trickle-up growth and income inequality. Economic Modelling, 129, 106535.
Dosi, G., Palagi, E., Roventini, A. and Russo, E. (2023). Do patents really foster innovation in the pharmaceutical sector? Results from an evolutionary, agent-based model. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 212, pages 564-589, doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2023.05.039.
Iacono, R. and Palagi, E. (2023). A micro perspective on r> g. Economica, vol. 90(358), pages 531-556.
Palagi, E., Coronese, M., Lamperti, F. and Roventini, A. (2022). Climate change and the nonlinear impact of precipitation anomalies on income inequality. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119(43), e2203595119.
Iacono, R., and Palagi, E. (2022). Still the lands of equality? Heterogeneity of income composition in the Nordics, 1975-2016. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis \& Policy, ISSN: 1935-1682, doi: 10.1515/bejeap-2021-0165.
Palagi, E., Napoletano, M., Roventini, A., and Gaffard, J. L. (2017). Inequality, Redistributive Policies and Multiplier Dynamics in an Agent-Based Model with Credit Rationing. Italian Economic Journal, vol. 3(3), pages 367-387.
Publications – in books
Guzzardi, D., Palagi, E., Faccio, T. and Roventini, A. (2023). In search of lost time: An ensemble of policies to restore fiscal progressivity and address the climate challenge. Financing investment in times of high public debt, 2023 European Public Investment Outlook, eds. Cerniglia, F., Saraceno, F. and Watt, A.