Publications

Journal Articles (Published and Under Review):

Bartolucci, F., Li Donni, P., and Pandolfi, S. (2026). Bivariate zero-inflated stochastic block models for the analysis of longitudinal hospital network data, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, qnag026, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnag026 

Tancini D., Rastelli R., Bartolucci F. (2026). A spatio-temporal hidden Markov model with an application to Italian unemployment data, Networks and Spatial Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-026-09748-9

Barone, R., Bartolucci, F. Farcomeni, A., and Pandolfi, S. (2026). Multilayer dynamic stochastic block models for analyzing international arms trade patterns, submitted to the Annals of Applied Statistics (second review)

Lanari D., Mangiavacchi, L., Piccoli, L., and Pieroni, L. (2026). Parenting, Social Norms and Adolescent Risky Behaviors, IZA Discussion Paper No. 18063, https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep71841 and submitted to the Review of Economics and Households (second review)

Lanari D., Mangiavacchi, L., Piccoli, L., and Pieroni, L. (2026). Rethinking Parental Authority: Cohort-Based Changes in Italian Family Practices, Research Square Working Paper, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8969016/v1 and submitted to the Journal of Child and Family Studies

Balestri, S., Crippa, A., and Pieroni, L. (2026). Drought Exposure and Food-Security Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Hidden Markov Approach, submitted to the Food Policy

Lanari, D., Crippa A. and Pieroni, L. (2025). Welfare Spending and Health Perception: Evidence from Europe and Italy submitted to the Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica

Ricci Focaia, D., Mariani, L., Polinori, P., Bigerna, S., Longo A. (2026). Beyond the environmental benefits of biofuels: A discrete choice experiment on HVO adoption in Italy. (Submitted)

Bigerna, S., Choudhary, P., Kumar Jain, N., Mariani, L., Micheli, S., Polinori, P. (2024), Power outages and sustainable development in India. (Submitted)

Working Papers, Book Chapters and Contributions to Conference Volumes:

Bartolucci, F., Crippa, A., and Pieroni, L. (2026). Beyond Income: Assessing the Efficacy of Social Protection Spending on Food Insecurity in Europe – Working paper MPRA 129637

Tancini D., Rastelli R., Bartolucci F. (2024). Bayesian inference for discrete spatio-temporal hidden Markov models, In: Pollice, A., Mariani, P. (eds) Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography IV. SIS 2024. Italian Statistical Society Series on Advances in Statistics. Springer, Cham, pp. 581-587. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64447-4_99

Tancini D., Rastelli R., Bartolucci F. (2025). Marginal Likelihood for Intractable Hidden Markov Models, In: di Bella, E., Gioia, V., Lagazio, C., Zaccarin, S. (eds) Statistics for Innovation IV. SIS 2025. Italian Statistical Society Series on Advances in Statistics. Springer, Cham, pp. 398-403. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96033-8_65

Bartolucci, F., Forcina, A. (2025), Empirical likelihood inference on the size of a closed population by modeling latent and observed heterogeneity, Proceedings of the 39th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling

Trequattrini, M., Pandolfi, S., and Bartolucci, F. (2026), Weighted estimation of stochastic volatility models via hidden Markov approximation. Working paper (in mimeo) 

Codini M., Bellini Baldelli S., Martelli D., Albi E., Rondini T., Villarini M., Association between lifestyle and body mass index among students at the University of Perugia: a single-centre cross-sectional study. Working paper (in mimeo)