Research

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

(w. Marco Ragusa)

Presented at: 10th Workshop on the Economics of Organized Crime (UniCt) - WEOC 2026, 4th Junior Workshop on the Economics of Crime (UPenn) - WEC Jr 2025, Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics (UniTo) – IAAE 2025, Lisbon Urban and Public Economics Workshop (ISEG) - LUPE 2025, XXXII Encuentro Economía Pública - EEP 2025, RSIT Brown Bag Seminar (Uni Tübingen) - RSIT 2025, 2nd Tor Vergata Ph.D. Conference in Economics - TVCE 2025, Florence Political Economy Applied Research Lab (EUI) - PEARL 2025. 

• Organized Crime Dynamics and the Legal Economy. Winner, EIEF 2025 Grant

(w. Lavinia Piemontese & Andrea Tulli)

Presented at: 10th Workshop on the Economics of Organized Crime (UniCt) - WEOC 2026*, PEARL Workshop (EUI) - PEARL 2026, Petralia Applied Economics  Workshop - Petralia 2025*.

                (* presented by co-author)

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

     (w. João Pereira dos Santos &  José Tavares) 2021 CEPR Discussion paper version here.