Publications

Papers published in refereed journals

• True to type? EU-style date marking and the valuation of perishable food, 2023, Food Policy, 114, 102381 (with A. D’Amato, T. Goeschl and L. Lorè).

• Waste recycling policies and Covid-19 pandemic in an E-DSGE model, 2022, Waste Management, 141, 290-299 (with A. Argentiero and A. D’Amato).

• Nudging food waste decisions at restaurants, 2021, European Economic Review, 135, 103722 (with M. Giaccherini, M. Gilli and S. Mancinelli).

• “Smoke on the beach”: On the use of economic vs behavioral policies to reduce environmental pollution by cigarette littering, 2021, Economia Politica - Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, 38(3), 1025-1048 (with G. Castaldi and G. Cecere).

• The Role of Information Sources and Providers in Shaping Green Behaviors. Evidence from Europe, 2019, Ecological Economics, 164, 106-292 (with A. D’Amato and M. Giaccherini).

• Corruption in environmental policy: the case of waste, 2019, Economia Politica, 36, 65–78 (with B. Cesi and A. D’Amato).

• Illegal waste disposal: enforcement actions and decentralised environmental policy, 2018, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 64, 56–65 (with A. D’Amato, M. Mazzanti and F. Nicolli).

• Tradable Quotas Taxation and Market Power, 2017, Energy Economics, 63, 248–252  (with A. D’Amato and E. Valentini).

• Financial Barriers and Environmental Innovations: Evidence from EU Manufacturing Firms, 2017, Climate Policy, 17, S131-S147 (with C. Ghisetti, S. Mancinelli and  M. Mazzanti).

• Complementarity vs substitutability in waste management behaviors, 2016, Ecological Economics, 123, 84–94 (with A. D’Amato and S. Mancinelli).

• Interpreting bargaining strategies of developing countries in climate negotiations. A quantitative approach, 2016, Ecological Economics, 121, 128-139 (with V. Costantini and G. Sforna).

• Taxing international emissions trading, 2013, Energy Economics, 40, 609-621 (with V. Costantini, A. D'Amato, C. Martini, M. C. Tommasino and E. Valentini).

• Illegal Waste Disposal in the Time of the Mafia: A Tale of Enforcement and Social Well Being, 2012, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 55, 5, 637-655 (with A. D'Amato).

• Deriving multidimensional poverty indicators. Methodological issues and an empirical analysis for Italy, 2012, Social Indicators Research, 107, 37–54 (with M. Coromaldi).

• The Four-Sector Diagram of Benefits (FSDOB) as a method for evaluating strategic interactions between humans and the environment. The case study of hydrogen fuel cell buses, 2010, Ecological Economics, 69, 486–494 (with C. Giannantoni).

• Environmental Quality and Income Inequality: The Impact of Redistribution on Direct Household Emissions in Italy, 2009, Rivista di Politica Economica, VII-IX, 121-140 (with L. Castellucci and A. D’Amato); published also in L. Castellucci and A. Markandya (eds.), Environmental taxes and fiscal reform, 2012, pp. 123-141, London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book chapters

• Gender matters in gender difference perceptions. The case of University of Rome Tor Vergata (with M. Brunetti, N. Colasanti and M. Fabretti), in A. Simonati (ed.) (2024), Diversity as Strategic Opportunity: Exploring New Paths to Good Administration, Charlotte (NC): Information Age Publishing. 

• On the use of behavioural instruments to affect individual waste production and disposal decisions (with S. Mancinelli), in A. Bucciol, A. Tavoni and M. Veronesi (eds.), Behavioral Economics and the Environment: A Research Companion, 2023, London: Routledge.

• Careful with that switch! Willingness to save energy and income distribution (with G. Castaldi and A. D’Amato), in S. Fadda and P. Tridico (eds.), Inequality and Uneven Development in the Post-Crisis World, 2018, London; Routledge.

• Environmental policy-making in real life. Illegal waste disposal in the presence of organized crime (with A. D’Amato), in L. Castellucci (ed.), Government and the Environment. The Role of the Modern State in the Face of Global Challenges, 2014, London: Routledge.

• A Note on Illegal Waste Disposal, Corruption and Enforcement (with A. D’Amato), in A. D’Amato, M. Mazzanti and A. Montini (eds.), Waste Management in Spatial Environments, 2013, London: Routledge.

• The Italian Income Tax System. How did recent reforms affect labor supply decisions and redistribution? (with V. Parisi), in W. J. Berube and C. N. Pinto (eds.), Taxation, Tax Policies and Income Taxes, 2010, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Book reviews

• Shanti Gamper-Rabindran (ed.), “The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development”, 2018, Pittsburgh (PA): University of Pittsburgh Press, in The Extractive Industries and Society, 2019, 6(4), 1378-1379.

Contributions to policy reports

• Sustainability transition and the European Green Deal: A macro-dynamic perspective (with N. Barbieri, A. M. Bassi, I. Beretta, V. Costantini, A. D’Amato, M. Gilli, G. Marin, M. Mazzanti, S. Paleari, S. U. Speck, S. Tagliapietra and R. Zoboli), 2021, Eionet Report - ETC/WMGE 2021/8.

• Riuso 2.0: proposta di introduzione di uno schema di depositi rifondibili (with A. D’Amato), in L. Becchetti and G. A. Forte (eds.) Il libro bianco della transizione ecologica. Proposte del gruppo di studio del Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare (ora Ministero per la Transizione Ecologica) in materia di economia e sviluppo sostenibile. 2021. Rubbettino.

• The sustainability transition in Europe in an age of demographic and technological change. An exploration of implications for fiscal and financial strategies (with S. Speck, R. Zoboli, S. Paleari, G. Marin, M. Mazzanti, V. Costantini, N. Barbieri, M. Gilli, A. D'Amato, G. Sforna and A. Bassi), 2019, EEA Report 23/2019, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen.

• Green Jobs nel settore dei rifiuti: quali opportunità, in G. Brunelli and F. Buoncompagni (eds.), Il contributo dei lavori verdi allo sviluppo sostenibile in Italia: stato dell'arte e prospettive, PON GAS 2007-2013 - Ministero dell’ambiente e della Tutela Del Territorio e del Mare.