Pubblications
Journal articles
LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING ANALYTICS FOR DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO EXTRACT INSIGHTS FROM PROJECT DATA (with Garbero A., Resce G., Carneiro B.), Journal of Development Effectiveness, forthcoming, 2024.
SOURCES OF FINANCING: WHICH ONES ARE MORE EFFECTIVE IN INNOVATION–GROWTH LINKAGE? (with Santos A.M. and Cincera M.), Economic Systems, forthcoming, 2024.
THE DRIVERS OF GHG EMISSIONS: A NOVEL APPROACH TO ESTIMATE EMISSIONS USING NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS (with Magazzino C., Haouas I., Unuofin J.O., Sarkodie S.A.), Gondwana Research, forthcoming, 2023.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AMONG SELECTED AUTOMOTIVE LEADERS IN THE EU: ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES TO INVESTIGATE THE STRUCTURE OF MOMENTS WHILE USING THE GMM WITH DYNAMIC PANEL DATA (with Heryán T, Petra Růčková, P.), Studia Universitatis "Vasile Goldis" Arad – Economics Series, forthcoming, 2023.
LINK PREDICTION AND FEATURE RELEVANCE IN KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH (with A. Zinilli), PLOS ONE, forthcoming, 2023.
THE NEXUS BETWEEN AGRICULTURAL LAND USE, URBANIZATION, AND GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS: NOVEL IMPLICATIONS FROM DIFFERENT STAGES OF INCOME LEVELS (with Magazzino C., Shahzad U., Khan S., Atmospheric Pollution Research, forthcoming, 2023.
TOWARDS DATA-DRIVEN PROJECT DESIGN: PROVIDING OPTIMAL TREATMENT RULES FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (with A. Garbero and G. Sakos), Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, forthcoming, 2023.
OPTIMAL TREATMENT ASSIGNMENT OF A THRESHOLD-BASED POLICY: EMPIRICAL PROTOCOL AND RELATED ISSUES, Applied Economics Letters, 30, 8, 1010-1017, 2023.
MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTION OF ACADEMIC COLLABORATION NETWORKS (with G. Resce and A. Zinilli), Scientific Reports, 12, 21993, 2022.
MACHINE LEARNING USING STATA/PYTHON, The Stata Journal, 22, 4, 1-39, 2022.
ESTIMATING MIXTURE MODELS FOR FEELING AND UNCERTAINTY OF ORDINAL RATING DATA (with R. Simone, F. Di Iorio, D. Piccolo, and C.F. Baum), The Stata Journal, 22, 1, 195-223, 2022.
CURRENCY UNIONS AND GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS: THE IMPACT OF THE EURO ON THE ITALIAN VALUE ADDED EXPORTS (with S. Nenci, L. Salvatici, and A. Zinilli), Italian Economic Journal, 8, 373–407, 2022.
A DOSE-RESPONSE EVALUATION OF REGIONAL INCENTIVES TO R&D (with R. Spallone), International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 12, 1/2, 74-104, 2022.
DO COMPANY-OWNED ACADEMIC PATENTS INFLUENCE FIRM PERFORMANCE? EVIDENCE FROM THE ITALIAN INDUSTRY (with E. Pierucci and B. Potì), The Journal of Technology Transfer, 47, 242–269, 2022.
IMPROVING ECONOMETRIC PREDICTION BY MACHINE LEARNING, Applied Economics Letters, 28,16, 1419-1425, 2021.
A DOSE-RESPONSE APPROACH TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PARTIAL CREDIT GUARANTEES (with M. Ventura), Applied Economics, 53, 12, 1418-1434, 2021.
A DOSE-RESPONSE EVALUATION OF REGIONAL R&D SUBSIDIES POLICY (with M. Corsino, R. Gabriele, A. Giunta), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, forthcoming, 2020.
BENCHMARKING NON-PERFORMING LOANS (with V. D'Apice, F. Fiordelisi, and F. Masala), The European Journal of Finance, 26, 6, 1591-1605, 2020.
NONPARAMETRIC SYNTHETIC CONTROL USING THE STATA NPSYNTH COMMAND, The Stata Journal, 20, 4, 844-865, 2020.
DATA-DRIVEN SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR MATCHING ESTIMATORS, Economics Letters, 185, 2019.
A FLEXIBLE SYNTHETIC CONTROL METHOD FOR MODELING POLICY EVALUATION, Economics Letters, 182, 2019.
THE DETERMINANTS OF CO2 EMISSIONS IN MENA COUNTRIES: A RESPONSIVENESS SCORES APPROACH (with C. Magazzino), International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 26, 6, 522-534, 2019.
TVDIFF: ESTIMATION OF PRE– AND POST-TREATMENT AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECTS WITH BINARY TIME–VARYING TREATMENT USING STATA (with M. Ventura), The Stata Journal, 19, 3, 2019.
AN ANALYSIS OF LONG-RUN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT SECTORS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM ASEAN COUNTRIES (with S. Wannapan and C. Chaiboonsri), International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 10, 1, 2019.
THE IMPACT OF FISCAL RELIEF ON MULTINATIONALS BUSINESS R&D INVESTMENTS: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS (with B. Potì and R. Spallone), Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 35, 2, 2018.
DATA-ADAPTIVE ESTIMATION FOR DOUBLE-ROBUST METHODS IN POPULATION-BASED CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY: RISK DIFFERENCES FOR LUNG CANCER MORTALITY BY EMERGENCY PRESENTATION (with Luque, M.-A., Belot, A., Valeri, L., Maringe, C., Rachet, B.), American Journal of Epidemiology, 187, 4, 2018.
IDENTIFICATION AND ESTIMATION OF TREATMENT EFFECTS IN THE PRESENCE OF (CORRELATED) NEIGHBORHOOD INTERACTIONS: MODEL AND STATA IMPLEMENTATION VIA NTREATREG, The Stata Journal, 17, 4, 2017.
R&D SUBSIDIZATION EFFECT AND NETWORK CENTRALIZATION: EVIDENCE FROM AN AGENT-BASED MICRO-POLICY SIMULATION (with P. Angelini, F. Cecconi, A. Miceli, B. Potì), Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 20(4), 4, 2017.
DATANET: A STATA ROUTINE FOR ORGANISING A DATASET FOR NETWORK ANALYSIS PURPOSES (with A. Zinilli), International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 7, 4, 2017.
ESTIMATING RESPONSIVENESS SCORES USING RSCORE, The Stata Journal, 17, 2, 2017.
ARE LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES BETTER DELIVERED IN MORE AUTONOMOUS REGIONS? EVIDENCE FROM EUROPEAN REGIONS USING A DOSE-RESPONSE APPROACH (with A. Filippetti), Papers in Regional Science, 97, 3, 2017.
TESTING STABILITY OF REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY MODELS (with Y. Dong, A. Lewbel and A. Poulsen), Advances in Econometrics, 38, 2016.
THE ROLE OF FIRM R&D EFFORT AND COLLABORATION AS MEDIATING DRIVERS OF INNOVATION POLICY EFFECTIVENESS (with R. Gabriele and B. Potì), Industry and Innovation, 23, 5, pp. 426-447, 2016.
SEQUENTIAL PAIRWISE TRADING: CONVERGENCE AND WELFARE IMPLICATIONS (with A. Miceli and F. Cecconi), International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 6, 1, 2016.
CTREATREG: STATA MODULE FOR ESTIMATING DOSE-RESPONSE MODELS UNDER EXOGENOUS AND ENDOGENOUS TREATMENT, The Stata Journal, 15, 4, 2015.
IVTREATREG: A STATA ROUTINE FOR ESTIMATING BINARY TREATMENT MODELS WITH HETEROGENEOUS RESPONSE TO TREATMENT AND UNOBSERVABLE SELECTION, The Stata Journal, 14, 3, 2014.
THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES ON INVENTION: AN INVESTIGATION BASED ON COUNTRY RESPONSIVENESS SCORES, World Development, 59, 147–165, 2014.
TREATREW: A USER-WRITTEN STATA ROUTINE FOR ESTIMATING AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECTS BY REWEIGHTING ON PROPENSITY SCORE, The Stata Journal, 14, 3, 2014.
R&D AND TECHNOLOGICAL INTERNATIONALISATION: EVIDENCE FROM A TREATMENT RANDOM-COEFFICIENT MODEL (with Mario De Marchi), Review of Applied Economics, 8, 2, 2013.
ARE R&D SUBSIDIES PROVIDED OPTIMALLY? EVIDENCE FROM A SIMULATED AGENCY-FIRM STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC GAME, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 15, 1, 2012.
THE COMPLEMENTARY NATURE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES: MEASUREMENT AND ROBUSTNESS ISSUES (with A. Filippetti), Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 79, 2012.
EVALUATING THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE EFFECT OF PUBLIC SUBSIDIES ON FIRM R&D AND INNOVATION: AN APPLICATION TO ITALY (with B. Potì), Journal of Applied Economics, 15, 2, 2012.
DESIGNING EX-POST ASSESSMENT OF CORPORATE RDI POLICIES: CONCEPTUALIZATION, INDICATORS, AND MODELING (with B. Potì), World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 9, 2/3/4, 2012.
EDITORIAL, in: Cerulli G. and Potì B., “Evaluating the effect of public policies on corporate R&D and innovation: processes and behaviours, measurement methods and indicators” (with B. Potì), Special Issue, World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 9, 2/3/4, 2012.
DOES PATENTING IMPACT ON SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY? EVIDENCE FROM A PANEL OF ITALIAN ACADEMIC INVENTOR (with B. Potì and S. Romagnosi), International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 6, 4, 2012.
THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF PRIVATELY AND PUBLICLY FUNDED R&D ON R&D INVESTMENT AND INNOVATION: THE ITALIAN CASE (with B. Potì), Prometheus. Critical Studies in Innovation, 30, 1, 2012.
EVALUATION OF FIRM R&D AND INNOVATION SUPPORT: NEW INDICATORS AND THE EX-ANTE PREDICTION OF EX-POST ADDITIONALITY (with B. Potì), Research Evaluation, n. 20, 19-29, 2011.
MODELLING AND MEASURING THE EFFECT OF PUBLIC SUBSIDIES ON BUSINESS R&D: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE ECONOMETRIC LITERATURE, Economic Record, 86, 2010.
SUBSTITUTABILITY VS. COMPLEMENTARITY: RETHINKING STI COMPOSITE INDICATORS BUILDING WITH AN APPLICATION OF SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS (with A. Filippetti), Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2, 6, 2010.
LA VALUTAZIONE EX POST DI UNO STRUMENTO DI POLITICA DELLA RICERCA INDUSTRIALE: MODELLO ANALITICO, PROCESSO DI REALIZZAZIONE, ETEROGENEITÀ DEGLI EFFETTI (with B. Potì), L’industria, a. XXXI, n. 2, 307-334, 2010.
MEASURING INTERSECTORAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS: AN APPLICATION OF SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TO ITALY (with B. Potì), Economic Systems Research, 3, 2009.
GOVERNANCE OF TRANSACTIONS AND OF COMMON GOODS: WHAT LESSONS WE CAN DRAW FROM THE 2009’s NOBEL PRIZE AWARDED TO E. OSTROM AND O. WILLIAMSON (with B. Potì), Analysis, 1, 2010.
THE INTEGRATION OF THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR IN A SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES, EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES AND EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS FOR ITALY, Rivista di Statistica Ufficiale, 2-3, 2008.
UNA MATRICE DI CONTABILITÀ SOCIALE PER IL WELFARE MIX: L’INTEGRAZIONE DEL SETTORE NON-PROFIT. PRIME EVIDENZE EMPIRICHE ED EFFETTI OCCUPAZIONALI PER L’ITALIA, Rivista di Politica Economica, Marzo-Aprile, 2006.
THE ROLE OF A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE IN BUSINESS CYCLE MEASUREMENT, (con Massimo Franchi), Congiuntura, 3, 2005.
Book chapters
THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT CAPACITY IN THE INNOVATION PROCESS FOR FIRM PROFITABILITY (with B. Potì). In: A. Pyka and J. Foster (eds.), The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems. Book series: Economic Complexity and Evolution, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 455-482 , 2015.
ON PROFIT DIFFERENTIALS BETWEEN PERSISTENT AND OCCASIONAL INNOVATORS: A RANDOM-COEFFICIENT TREATMENT MODEL APPROACH (with B. Potì). In: A. Pyka and E.S. Andersen (eds.), Long Term Economic Development. Book series: Economic Complexity and Evolution, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 363-393, 2013.
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMETRIC METHODS FOR PROGRAM EVALUATION AND A PROPOSAL TO EXTEND THE DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES ESTIMATOR TO DYNAMIC TREATMENT, Econometrics: New Developments, Book Chapter, Nova Publishers, NY, 2012.
HETEROGENEITY OF INNOVATION STRATEGIES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE (with B. Potì). In: Cantner U., Gaffard J. and Nesta L. (eds.), Schumpeterian perspectives on innovation, competition and growth. Book series: Economic Complexity and Evolution, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 275-298, 2009.
IL RUOLO DEL NON-PROFIT SANITARIO ED ASSISTENZIALE IN ITALIA, in Borzaga C. e Fazzi L. (eds), Del non profit sociosanitario, collana “Salute e Società”, Franco Angeli, 2006.
TERZO SETTORE (NON-PROFIT), encyclopedic entry contained in: “XXI Secolo - Aggiornamento dell’Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti – Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da G. Treccani”, 2007.
TERZO SETTORE E SVILUPPO ECONOMICO: GLI EFFETTI SU EQUITÀ, EFFICIENZA ED OCCUPAZIONE PER IL CASO ITALIANO, Impresa Sociale, 71-72, Settembre-Dicembre, 2003.
Working papers
THE ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CRIME: AN APPROACH THROUGH RESPONSIVENESS SCORES (with Ventura M., and Baum C.F.), Boston College Working Papers in Economics 948, Boston College Department of Economics, 2018.
DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF PARTIAL CREDIT GUARANTEE SCHEMES: A DOSE-RESPONSE FUNCTION APPROACH (with M. Ventura), Documento di Valutazione N. 4, Senate of the Italian Republic, Impact Assessment Office, 2018.
EXPLAINING FIRM SENSITIVITY TO R&D SUBSIDIES WITHIN A DOSE-RESPONSE MODEL: THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS, REAL COST OF INVESTMENT, AND STRATEGIC VALUE OF R&D (with B. Potì), DEM Working Papers N. 9, Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento, 2016 .
THE REDISTRIBUTIVE ROLE OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, Documentos de Traballo do IDEGA, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Análise Económica, nº 39, 2006.
OTTIMIZZAZIONE VS. RAZIONALITÀ PROCEDURALE: UN’ANALISI DEL DIBATTITO SULLA NATURA DELLA SCELTA RAZIONALE IN ECONOMIA, Working Paper Series, Dipartimento di Economia “S. Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Turin, n. 1, 2005.
EL MEJORAMENTO DE LAS CONDICIONES URBANAS DEL BARRIO EUGÉNIO LIMA BAIXO EN PRAIO, CABO VERDE: NOTA METODOLÓGICA, Quaderni IUAV, 40, pp. 125-133, 2006.
Other papers
PREDICIBILITÀ, INCERTEZZA RADICALE, ISTITUZIONI: UN BREVE VIAGGIO NELLA TEORIA ECONOMICA DELLA DECISIONE, Aperture. Rivista di cultura, arte e filosofia, n. 23, 2008.
POLICYMAKING E CAUSALITÀ IN ECONOMIA: QUALE LA LORO NATURA? QUALI LE QUESTIONI APERTE?, Aperture. Rivista di cultura, arte e filosofia, n. 21, 2006.
ECONOMIA SOLIDALE: SOGNO O REALTÀ?, Aperture. Rivista di cultura, arte e filosofia, n. 22, 2007.
LOOKING INSIDE THE COASE BOX: TRANSACTION COSTS AND FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE (with Margherita Turvani), ESHET, European Society for the History of Economic Thought, University of Stirling, Scozia, UK, June 2005.
FROM WILLIAMSON TO COASE: THE NIE EMPIRICAL DILEMMA (with Margherita Turvani), ESHET, European Society for the History of Economic Thought, University of Stirling, Scozia, UK, June 2005.