Publications in refereed journals:
Price competition, willingness to pay, and demand externalities under vertical differentiation (2025). Journal of Industrial and Business Economics. (with Benassi C. and Castellani M.)
Art on Trial: Mapping Public Reactions to Scandalous Cultural Goods in Public Institutions (2025). Applied Economics Letters. (with Lyrvall J.)
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Efficiency and quality: An empirical analysis of Italian fine dining restaurants (2025). Journal of Foodservice Business Research. (with Castellani M.)
Before the hammer falls: an empirical analysis of the market reaction to art thefts (2025). European Journal of Law and Economics, 59: 77–100. (with Castellani M. and Oosterman N.)
Evaluating chef’s creativity and restaurant quality: an empirical analysis of the role of gastronomic guides in the Italian fine-dining market (2025). Kyklos, 78(3): 852–873. (with Castellani M. and Pattitoni P.)
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Cumulative information on quality and willingness to pay: A study on wine evaluation (2025). Journal of Foodservice Business Research, 28(2): 295–333. (with Castellani M. and Ventrucci M.) [first online: 2023]
Platform investment and seller competition in two-sided markets (2025). Journal of Economics, 144(1): 1–29. (with Castellani M. and Zirulia L.) [first online: 2024]
Testing for threshold effects in presence of heteroskedasticity and measurement error with an application to Italian strikes (2025). Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 87(3): 659–689. (with Castellani M., Giannerini S., and Goracci G.) [first online: 2024]
On the role of tactile value in cultural consumption: An empirical research in the live music industry (2025). Cultural Trends, 34(4): 549–573. (with Radermecker A.-S.) [first online: 2024]
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High tide, low price? Flooding alerts and hotel prices in Venice (2024). Tourism Economics, 30(4): 876–899. (with Leoni V. and Figini P.) [first online: 2023]
Restaurant sector efficiency frontiers: a meta-analysis (2024). Journal of Foodservice Business Research, 27(2): 138–156. (with Castellani M. and Vici L.) [first online: 2022]
You can't export that! Export ban for modern and contemporary Italian Art (2023). European Journal of Law and Economics, 56(3): 533–557. (with Castellani M. and Pattitoni P.) [first online: 2022]
Media coverage: Il Sole 24 Ore (also in printed version, 28/01/23)
Artist names as human brands: Brand determinants, creation and co-creation mechanisms (2023). Empirical Studies of the Arts, 41(1): 80–107. (with Castellani M. and Pattitoni P.) [first online: 2022]
Overconfidence in the art market: a bargaining pricing model with asymmetric disinformation (2022). Economia Politica, 39(3): 961–988. (with Castellani M. and Zirulia L.)
Price and information disclosure in the private art market: a signalling game (2022). Research in Economics, 76(1): 14–20. (with Castellani M.)
Platform competition and willingness to pay in a vertical differentiated two-sided market (2021). Economics Bulletin, 41(2): 772–780. (with Benassi C. and Castellani M.)
Households production in State and stateless societies: Three tales and one letter (2020). International Review of Economics, 67(1): 31–45. (with Candela G. and Castellani M.)
Governance efficiency with and without government (2020). Social Choice and Welfare, 54(1): 183–200. (with Candela G. and Castellani M.) [first online: 2019]
Cultural and economic value: a critical review (2019). Journal of Cultural Economics, 43(2): 173–188. (with Castellani M.) [first online: 2018]
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Private pricing in the art market (2018). Economics Bulletin, 38(4): 2371–2378. (with Castellani M.)
Le aste online: le vendite in Italia di arte visiva su eBay (2012). Sistemaeconomico, 2010(1): 5–20.
Book chapters, Thesis, and reports:
L’economia delle arti digitali (2025). In "Economia delle Arti", (ed. Candela G. and Scorcu A.E.). Bologna: Zanichelli (with Castellani M.)
One flew over the cuckoo’s clock: Selling exclusivity through conspicuous goods on Evolution (2021). In "Crime and Art: Sociological and Criminological Perspectives of Crimes in the Art World" (ed. N. Oosterman and D. Yates). Cham: Springer (with Oosterman N.)
Art market stakeholders' actions and strategies for the co-creation of artists' brands (2021). In "Researching Arts Markets: Past, Present and Tools for the Future" (ed. E. Lazzaro, N. Moureau, and A. Turpin). London: Routledge (with Castellani M.)
How does data-driven economy work (2019). In "Making the Digital Revolution Work: Data, Privacy, Business" (ed. S. Dominioni and F. Rugge). Milano: ISPI - Italian Institute for International Political Studies
Scambi e prezzi della grafica d’arte: un’indagine esplorativa (2017). In “Collezionare Grafica d’Arte” (ed. M. Fiori and M. Dall’Acqua). Bologna: Alincisori (with Candela G. and Castellani M.)
Essays in Economics of the Arts (2017). Ph.D. thesis at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca