Publications:
In Press - Explorations in Economic History
"Can Economic Sanctions Work in a Smaller Conflict?: The Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935–1936" (With Jari Eloranta and Elina Kuorelahti)
In: Broadberry S, Harrison M, eds. Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688. Cambridge University Press; 2025:112-141.
"The Economic Origins of Government" (With Bob Allen and Leander Heldring)
American Economic Review, 113(10) (2023): 2507-45
"The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture: Evidence from Italian Libya"
Economic History Review, 76(1) (2023): 31-59
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"The Long-term Impact of Italian Colonial Roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935-2015"
Journal of Economic Geography, 22(1) (2022): 181-214
"Towards an economic history of Italian colonialism"
Rivista di Storia Economica, 36(3) (2020): 299-343
Working papers and work in progress:
"The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War II Italy" (With Michela Giorcelli)
"The Negus and the monks: Monasteries, state formation and long-run development in Ethiopia, 1270-2020" (With Andres Martignano)
"The Dawn of Inequality" (With Gina Eckhoff and Leander Heldring)
"Italian Africa"
Working paper/Book chapter - Forthcoming in the Handbook of the Economic History of Colonialism
"Uncertainty and cooperation: evidence from colonial India" (With Taejun Kim and Maanik Nath)