Publications

Double in Trouble: Boys and Learning in School in Texas, North Carolina, and Italy (with  A. Ciccone and W. Garcia Fontes), CEPR Discussion Paper 20432 (2025),  CEPR Press, Paris & London

 Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion (with F. Palomba, P. Pinotti, E. Rettore), Econometrica (2025), 93(3), 747-778

Labor Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe  (with 11 coauthors), Journal of Human Resources (2024), Published online before print, July 2024. Supplementary web appendix. Previous working paper version 

Granting more bang for the buck: The heterogeneous effects of firm subsidies (with  F. Palomba, P. Pinotti, E. Rettore), Labor Economics (2023), 83, 1–10

International Financial Flows and Misallocation: Evidence from Micro Data (with F. Hassan)  CEPR Discussion Papers 17186 (2022), CEPR Press, Paris & London

Law Enforcement, Social Control and Organized Crime: Evidence from Local Government Dismissals in Italy (with M. Tonello) Italian Economic Journal (2020), vol. 6(2), pages 221-254, July. 

Before it Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms (with A. Bassanini), Industrial and Labor Relations Review (2018), 72(1), 127–157. Supplementary web appendix. Previous working paper version 

Does credit crunch investments down? New evidence on the real effects of the bank-lending channel, (with F. Manaresi and E. Sette), Review of Financial Studies (2016) 29 (10): 2737-2773

Trust, Firm Organization and the Structure of Production (with P. Pinotti), Journal of International Economics, vol 100, May 2016, pagg. 1-13

Employment Protection Legislation, Capital Investment and Access to Credit: Evidence from Italy, (with M. Leonardi, J. Messina and G. Pica), Economic Journal, 126: 1798–1822

Public Policy and Resource Allocation: Evidence from Firms in OECD Countries, (with D. Andrews), Economic Policy, vol. 29, 2014, pp. 253-296. Supplementary web appendix

Politicians at work. The private returns and social costs of political connections, (with P. Pinotti), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol 11, Issue 2, 2013 pp. 1-32. Supplementary web appendix

People I Know: Job Search and Social Networks (with A. Rosolia), Journal of Labor Economics vol. 30(2), 2012, pp.291 – 332. 

Service regulation and growth: evidence from OECD countries (with G.Barone), The Economic Journal, Vol. 121, Issue 555, 2011, pp. 931–957. Supplementary web appendix

The effects of employment protection legislation and financial market imperfections on investment: evidence from a firm-level panel of EU countries (with M. Leonardi, J. Messina, and G. Pica) Economic Policy, vol. 25, 2010, pp. 117-163. 

Identifying the Sources of Local Productivity Growth,(with F.Schivardi), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 2, Issue 4 – June 2004, Pages 720-742. 

The private and social return to schooling in Italy (with A. Ciccone & P.Cipollone), Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, vol.63, n.3/4, 2004, pp. 413-444. 

Returns to Specific Skills in Industrial Districts, Labour Economics, Vol. 10, Issue 2 – April 2003, Pages 149-164. 

Skills and Clusters (with A.Ciccone), in Broker, J; Dohse,D and R. Soltwedel R. (eds.) Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition, Advances in Spatial Science, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2003 

 Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion , (with F. Palomba, P. Pinotti, E. Rettore), Econometrica (2025), 93(3), 747-778

Labor Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe  (with 11 coauthors), Journal of Human Resources (2024), Published online before print, July 2024. Supplementary web appendix. Previous working paper version