Research

• Mafia in Public Tenders: The Effects on Firms' Competition. [draft coming soon]

 Planned Conferences 2025:

UPenn 4th Junior Workshop on the Economics of Crime - WEC Jr 2025 

Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics – IAAE 2025

ISEG Lisbon Urban and Public Economics Workshop - LUPE 2025

XXXII Encuentro Economía Pública - EEP 2025

• Organized Crime Dynamics and the Legal Economy. 

(Joint with Laviania Piemontese and Andrea Tulli)

Winner, EIEF 2025 Grant

• Does Organized Crime Attract EU Funding? Evidence from Sicily.

     (joint with João Pereira dos Santos and  José Tavares) 2021 CEPR Discussion paper version here