Innovation and economic productivity along the East Trans-Balkan cultural corridor (2025) Economia Politica, accepted (with Serpieri C.).
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
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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
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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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