Publications in refereed journals:
Strategic Play and Home Advantage: Coaches' Tactical Impact in Serie A (forthcoming). Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (with Castellani M., Diaz Rubio G.A., Giannerini G., and Goracci G.)
Price competition, willingness to pay, and demand externalities under vertical differentiation (2026). Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 53(2): 633-659. (with Benassi C. and Castellani M.) [first online: 2025]
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:
Information, Bargaining, and Relationships: Cultural Goods and Art in the Bazaar Economy in Western Markets (forthcoming, Fall 2026). In "Low-End Markets for Art and Cultural Goods", (ed. Radermecker A.-S.). Palgrave Macmillan
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