Research

Working Papers

The Elusive Impact of Corporate Tax Incentives, 2025, with Massimiliano Calì and Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda, World Bank - Policy Research Working Papers; WPS11061

Data-Biased Innovation, 2024, with Carl Benedikt Frey and Pia Andres, OMPTEC Working Paper N. 2022-4

Selected Press Coverage: Vox.eu 

Disrupting Science, 2023 (under revision at Industrial and Corporate Change) with Carl Benedikt Frey OMPTEC Working Paper N. 2022-4

Selected Press Coverage: Vox.eu 

Publications

Product Market Monopolies and Labor Market Monopsonies, with Massimiliano Calì, The Economic Journal, forthcoming

Selected Press Coverage: Vox.eu 

Robots For Economic Development, with Massimiliano Calì, Labour Economics 96 (2025): 102731

Selected Press Coverage: Vox.eu 

Privacy Regulation and Firm Performance: Estimating the GDPR Effect Globally,  with Carl Benedikt Frey, Economic Inquiry (2024)

Gain or Pain? The Impact of Non-Tariff Measures , Plants' Productivity and Markups, with Massimiliano Cali and Marco Le Moglie, Review of International Economics (2024)

Disease and Democracy: Political Regimes and Countries Responsiveness to Covid-19, with Chinchih Chen and Carl Frey, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 212 (2023): 290-299. 

Institutions, Holdup and Automation, Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 32, Issue 4, August 2023, Pages 831–847

Energy Prices and Firms' Economic Performance in Emerging Countries, with Cali, M., Cantore, N., Marin G., Mazzanti, M., Nicolli, F., Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (2023): 357-366.

Too Much Energy: The Perverse Effect of Low Fuel Prices on Firms, with Massimiliano Cali, Nicola Cantore, Leonardo Iacovone and Mariana Pereira-Lopez, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 111 (2022): 102587.

Automation or Globalization? The Impacts of Robots and Chinese Imports on Jobs in the United Kingdom, with Chinchih Chen and Carl Frey, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 204 (2022): 528-542.

Culture and Contagion: Individualism and Compliance with COVID-19 Policy, with Chinchih Chen and Carl Frey, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 190 (2021): 191-200.

Labour Reallocation in Recessions and Recovery: Evidence for Europe, with Eric Bartelsman and Paloma Lopez-Garcia, National Institute Economic Review, February 2019

Measuring 'Indirect' Investment in ICT in OECD Countries, with Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez and Vincenzo Spiezia, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, July 2018

Work in Progress

Welfare Gains and Incidence of Technical Change, with Dewitte, R. & Theodorakopoulos, A.

Remote Control: Aligning Incentives in a World of Remote Work, with Pia Andres & Carl Benedikt Frey

Inactive Working Papers

Automation and Manufacturing Performance in a Developing Country, with Massimiliano Cali, OMPTEC Working Paper No. 2021-1

Democracy, Culture, and Contagion: Political Regimes and Countries Responsiveness to Covid-19, with Carl Benedikt Frey and Chinchih Chen, CEPR working paper in Covid Economics n.18

Selected Press Coverage: The Economist; El Universal; Corriere della Sera; Vox.eu 

Cyclical and Structural Variation in Resource Allocation: Evidence for Europe, with Eric Bartelsman and Paloma Lopez-Garcia, ECB Working Paper No. 2210