Research

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

Presented at: 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. 

(Joint with Lavinia Piemontese and Andrea Tulli)

Winner, EIEF 2025 Grant

Presented at: Petralia Applied Economics Workshop 2025.

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

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