Research

Publications:

• Ballicu, G., Aznar, A. R., Robinson, C., & Tong, M. (2022). International Trade, FDI and Productivity. Covid-19 and Productivity, 47. 

• Ballicu, G., Aznar, A. R., Robinson, C., & Tong, M. (2022). Digital Divide and Technology Adoption in Covid Times. Covid-19 and Productivity, 71.

Working paper:

• Ballicu, G., Atzori, F., & Pelligra. (2025) When Giving Justifies Gambling: Theory and Experimental Evidence on Prosocial Risk-taking. Available at SSRN.

• Atzori, F., Ballicu, G., & Pelligra, V. (2025). Under Big Gods' Eyes. The Impact of Religious Beliefs on Altruistic Punishment During COVID-19 Pandemic (No. 202504). Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.

Work-in-progress:

• Willing to Give, Hard to Commit: a Field Experiment on the Intention-Action Gap in Blood Donation (with Vittorio Pelligra).

• In-group self-discrimination. A survey experiment on the Italian North-South divide (with Valeria Concas and Vittorio Pelligra).

• Which nudge is better to use? BOTTOM, a holistic framework for the analysis of nudges.