Innovation and economic productivity along the East Trans-Balkan cultural corridor (2025) Economia Politica, accepted (with Serpieri C.). DOI: 10.1007/s40888-025-00386-x
Land Take, Land Use and Environmental Issues. Is the Kuznets Curve Valid? The Case of Italy (2025) Spatial Economic Analysis, online fist. (with Magris F., Borruso G., Gallo A.) DOI: 10.1080/17421772.2025.2547059
Cities for living. Identifying the local conditions driving life satisfaction in European cities (2025). Regional Studies, Regional Science, 12(1): 617-633 (with Veneri. P.) DOI : 10.1080/21681376.2025.2524435
Local financial distress and fiscal regimes: Evidence from Italy (2025). The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 31, e00418 (with Fiorelli C. and Serpieri C.) DOI : 10.1016/j.jeca.2025.e00418.
Spillover Effects and Regional Determinants in the Ecuadorian Clean-Cooking Program: A Spatiotemporal Econometric Analysis (2025). The Energy Journal, 46(3) (with Obaco M. and Davi-Arderius D.) DOI : 10.1177/01956574241288971.
Strengths and weaknesses of the EU regional reactivity to shocks (2024). Annals of Regional Science, forthcoming (with Frassine L. and Serpieri C.) DOI: 10.1007/s00168-024-01307-9.
Evaluating happiness trends across Europe: A comparative study (2024). Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(9), 2276-2279 (with Ben Farhat C.) DOI: 10.1177/23998083241263153
Tangible, intangible assets and labour productivity growth. Journal of Economic Studies, 51 No. 9, 272-289 (with Castelli C., Comincioli N, Ferrante C.). DOI: 10.1108/JES-11-2023-0620
Logistic hubs and support for radical-right populism: Evidence from Italy (2024) European Journal of Political Economy, 102522 (with Cuccu L.). DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2024.102522.
Building (back) better cities for aged people in Europe (2023) Cities, 141, 104479 (with Foglia C. and Parisi M.L.). DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104479
Severity of material deprivation in Spanish regions and the role of the European Structural Funds (2023) Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 88, 101651 (with Mussida C. and Parisi M.L.) DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2023.101651.
Ecosystem degradation and the spread of Covid-19 (2023) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195, 836 (with Castelli, C., Castellini, M., Comincioli, N., Parisi M.L., and Vergalli, S.) DOI: 10.1007/s10661-023-11403-6.
A senior liveability index for European cities (2023) Regional Science Policy & Practice, 15(4): 769-793 (with Foglia C. and Parisi M.L.) DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12634.
What makes cities happy? Factors contributing to life satisfaction in European cities (2023) European Urban and Regional Studies, 30(4), 319-342 (with Castelli C., D’Hombres B., de Dominicis L., Dijkstra L., Montalto V.) DOI: 10.1177/09697764231155335.
Bayesian profile regression to study the ecologic associations of correlated environmental exposures with excess mortality risk during the first year of the Covid-19 epidemic in lombardy, Italy (2023) Environmental Research. 216, Part 1: 114484. (with Coker E., Molitor J., Liverani S., Martin J., Maranzano P., Vergalli S.) DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114484
Detecting Dividing Lines in Turnout: Spatial Dependence and Heterogeneity in the 2012 US Presidential Election (2022) Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis, 6: 34 (with Fiorino N., and Ricciuti R.) DOI: 10.1007/s41651-022-00127-9
Why are cities less opposed to European integration than rural areas? Factors affecting the Eurosceptic vote by degree of urbanization (2022) Cities,130: 103937. (with Dijkstra L. and De Dominicis L.). DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103937
Two faced of discontent in Italy: One liking to the North and one to the South (2022) Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 49, 8: 2283-2286 (with Cuccu L. and Chaykina M.). DOI: 10.1177/23998083221116890
On the association between housing deprivation and urban size: Evidence from South Asia (2022) World Development, 57, 105895 (with Obaco M., Mendieta Muñoz R., Juan Pablo Díaz-Sánchez). DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105895.
The populist outbreak and the role of institutional quality in European regions (2022) Scienze Regionali – Italian Journal of Regional Science, 3/2022: 337-366 (with Ferrante C.). DOI: 10.14650/105120.
Subnational Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics in Developing Countries: the cases of Ecuador and Uruguay (2022) Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 52: 11-35 (with Obaco M. and Mendieta Muñoz R.). DOI: 10.38191/iirr-jorr.22.001
Discontent with democracy in Latin America (2021) Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 14(3): 417–438 (with Segovia J. and Orellana M.) DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsab020.
Clustering the built form at LAU2 level for addressing sustainable policies: Insights from the Belgium case study (2021) Land Use Policy, 109, 105642 (with Ronchi S. and Serpieri C.) DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105642.
(No) City for old men (2021) Environment and Planning A: Environment and Space. 53(7): 1598-1600 (with Foglia C.) DOI: 10.1177/0308518X211021426
Does Social Capital Affect Voter Turnout? Evidence from Italy (2021) Social Indicators Research, 156: 289–309 (with Galli E. and Fiorino N.) DOI: 10.1007/s11205-021-02642-6
Spatial links in the analysis of voter turnout in European Parliamentary elections (2021) Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 14: 65–78 (with Ricciuti R. and Fiorino N.) DOI: 10.1007/s12076-021-00265-6
Unveiling the local determinants of population growth in the EU (2021) Growth & Change, 52(1): 150-166 (with Alvarez M., D’Hombres B., Ghisetti C., Dijkstra L.). DOI: 10.1111/GROW.12469
Challenges and Opportunities to Regional Renewal in the European Union (2021) International Regional Science Review , 44(1): 142-169 (with Serpieri C.). 10.1177/0160017620931591
The effects of air pollution on COVID-19 related mortality in Northern Italy (2020) Environmental and Resource Economics, 76: 611–634 (with Coker E., Cavalli L., Fabrizi E., Guastella G., Lippo E, Parisi M.L., Rizzati M., Varacca A., Vergalli S.). DOI: 10.1007/S10640-020-00486-1
Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis on land use: The case of Romania (2020) Land Use Policy, 97, 104695 (with Serpieri C.). DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104695
A Composite Policy Tool to Measure Territorial Resilience Capacity (2020), Socio-economic Planning Sciences, 70: 100669 (with Serpieri C.) DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2018.11.006
Towards regional renewal: A multilevel perspective for the EU (2020), Regional Studies, 54(6): 754-764 (con Serpieri C.). DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1640357.
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Ranking Regional Economic Resilience in the EU (2020) In Bristow G., Healy, A. (eds.) Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience: 103–125 (with Serpieri C.). DOI: 10.4337/9781785360862.00013
Structural Funds, Institutional Quality and Regional Economic Convergence in EU: A Spatial Econometric Approach (2020) In Thill J.C (eds.) Innovations in Urban and Regional Systems: 281-306 (with Montresor E., Pecci F.) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43694-0_13.
Analysing Domestic Tourism Flow at the Provincial Level in Spain by Using Spatial Gravity Models (2020) International Journal of Tourism Research, 22(4): 403-415 (with Alvarez M., D’Hombres B., Ghisetti C.). DOI: 10.1002/jtr.2344.
Land consumption and income in Ecuador: A case of an inverted environmental Kuznets curve (2020) Ecological Indicators, 108: 105699 (with Mendieta Muñoz R.) DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105699.
Regional Diffusion of Military Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020) Papers in Regional Science , 99(1): 225-244 (with Ricciuti R. and Caruso R.). DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12479.
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The determinants of subjective wellbeing in a developing country: The Ecuadorian case (2020) Journal of Happiness Studies, 21(8): 3007–3035 (with Orellana Bravo M. and Segovia Sarmiento J.). DOI: 10.1007/s10902-019-00211-w
Canton growth in Ecuador and the role of spatial heterogeneity [El crecimiento cantonal en Ecuador y el papel de la heterogeneidad espacial ] (2019) CEPAL Review, 129: 149-174 (with Mendieta Muñoz R. and Ontaneda D.). DOI EN: 10.18356/abe89742-en - DOI ES: 10.18356/c099aa13-es
Unveiling the internal migration dynamics in Ecuador between 2001 and 2010 (2019), Regional Studies, Regional Science, 6(1): 368-370 (with Segovia Sarmiento J.) DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1623069
The statistical properties of the networks of emigrants: the Ecuadorian case (2019) International Migration, 57(4): 40-57 (with Espinosa A.M., Horna L., Mendieta Muñoz R.) DOI: 10.1111/imig.12547
Ethnic Minority Concentration: A Source of Productivity Growth for Italian Provinces? (2019), Papers in Regional Science, 98(1): 17-34 (with Michelangeli A. and Vittucci-Marzetti G.) DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12327.
Mafia murders in Palermo (1909-1992) (2019) Journal of Regional Security, 14(1): 25–28 (with Ricciuti R.) DOI: 10.5937/JRS1901025P
Supra National, National and Local Dimensions of Voter Turnout in European Parliament Elections (2019) Journal of Common Market Studies, 57(4): 877-893 (with Fiorino N. and Ricciuti R.) DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12851
The Value of Culture to Urban Housing Markets (2018) Regional Studies, 52(12): 1672-1683 (with Borgoni R. and Michelangeli A.) DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1444271.
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A Note on Borders, Dyads and the Distribution of Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018) Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 24(2): 1-8 (with Ricciuti R.) DOI: 10.1515/peps-2018-0010.
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