All in Not Lost: Organized Crime and Social Capital Accumulation (with I. Ferrari and A. Saia), Journal of Public Economics, 2024, [DOI], open access.

Religion and Women: How Waldensians Reduced the Gender Gap (with A. Berlanda and M. Puca). Economics of Education Review, 2023, [DOI]

Fighting Violence Against Women: the Role of Female Political Representation (with A. Bochenkova and S. Galletta). Journal of Development Economics, 2023. [open access]

Earthquake Hazard and Civic Capital (with G. Plevani and M. Puca). European Journal of Political Economy, 2023 [open access]

The Role of Civic Capital on Vaccination (with S. Galletta and M. Puca). Health Economics, 2023 [open access]

A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime (edited with P. Vanin and J. F. Vargas), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022 [link].

The changing nature of economic of crime ( with P. Vanin and J. F. Vargas), in "A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime" (edited with P. Vanin and J. F. Vargas), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022 [link]

Historical Social Contracts and their Legacy: A Disaggregated Analysis for the Medieval Republics (with M. Cervellati, S. Lazzaroni and G. Prarolo). Journal of Economic Growth, 27(4), 485-526, 2022 [open access].

Using newspapers obituaries to nowcast daily mortality: evidence from the Italian COVID-19 hot-spots (with M. Puca). Health Policy, 125 (4), 535-540, 2021.

Estimating the severity of COVID-19: Evidence from the Italian epicenter (with S. Galletta and M. Puca). PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239569 [open access], 2020.

Inequality, Crime, and the Long Run Legacy of Slavery (with J. F. Vargas). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 159, 539-552, 2019. 

How much should we trust crime statistics? A comparison between EU and US (with F. Drago, R. Galbiati and P. Vertova). European Journal of Law Economics, 46(3), 343-357, 2018. 

The Crime Kuznets Curve (with L. Fergusson J. F. Vargas). Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33(4), 753-782, 2017. 

Social Closure, Surname and Crime (with P. Vanin). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137, 160-175, 2017. 

Organized Crime and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from Sicily at the Turn of the XXI century (with G.Prarolo and P. Vanin). European Journal of Political Economy, 41, 61-74, 2016. 

Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia (with R. Durante, G. Prarolo & P. Vanin). Economic Journal, 125(586), 175-202, 2015. 

Advocatus, et non Latro? Testing the Excess of Litigation for the Italian Courts of Justice (with M. M. Galizzi). Review of Law & Economics, 10(3), pp. 285-322, 2014. 

Migrating Mafias (with M. Pazzona). Regional Science & Urban Economics, 44(1), pp. 75-81, 2014. 

Incarceration and Incapacitation: Evidence from the 2006 Italian Collective Pardon (with S. Raphael). American Economic Review, 103(6), pp. 2437-2465, 2013. 

Housing Prices and Crime Perception (with D. Montolio and J. M. Raya-Vilchez). Empirical Economics, 45(1), pp.305-321, 2013. 

Bowling Alone, Drinking Together (with P. Vanin). Empirical Economics, 44(3), pp. 1635-1672, 2013. 

Thank you for not smoking: Evidence from Italian smoking ban (with M. Ranzani). Health Policy, 109(2), pp. 192-199, 2013. 

Do Immigrants Cause Crime? (with M. Bianchi and P. Pinotti). Journal of European Economic Association, 10(6), pp. 1318-1347, 2012. 

Crime and Social Sanction (with G. Pasini and P. Vanin). Papers in Regional Science, 91(1), pp. 193-218, 2012. 

Crime in Europe and in the US: Dissecting the Reversal of Misfortunes (with F. Drago, R. Galbiati and G. Zanella). Economic Policy, 26(67), pp. 347-385, 2011. 

Does Social Capital Reduce Crime? (with D. Montolio and P. Vanin). Journal of Law & Economics, 52(1), 145-170, 2009. 

Non Market Effects of Education on Crime: Evidence from Italian Regions (with L. Leonida). Economics of Education Review, 28(1), pp. 11-17, 2009. 

Early Labour Market Outcomes Returns to College Subject (with D. Pozzoli). Labour, 23(4), 559-588, 2009. 

Identifying the Socio-economic and Demographic Determinants of Crime across Spanish Provinces (with D. Montolio). International Review of Law and Economics, 28(2), pp. 89-97, 2008. 

Crime and Labour Market Opportunities in Italy (1993-2002). Labour, 20(4), pp. 601-624, 2006. 

Endogenous Induced Technical Change and the Costs of Kyoto (with C. Carraro and M. Galeotti). Resource and Energy Economics, 25(1), pp. 11-34, 2003. 

Emission Trading Restrictions with Endogenous Technological Change (with C. Carraro, M. Galeotti and E. Castelnuovo). International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 1(3), pp. 379-395, 2001.

Prison (with J. F. Vargas), in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (online first), Marciano A. and Ramello G.B. (eds.), New York: Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4614-7883-6 (Print) 978-1-4614-7883-6 (Online). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_595-1.

Crime: Economics of, the Standard Approach (with J. F. Vargas), in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (online first), Marciano A. and Ramello G.B. (eds.), New York: Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4614- 7883-6 (Print) 978-1-4614-7883-6 (Online). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_743-1. 

Political Regimes and Government's Reaction to Terrorism. A Simple Model (with N. Brugali & M. Gilli), Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 23(4), 2017. 

Response of Crime to Unemployment Cycles: International Comparisons in the Long Run (with F. Drago and R. Galbiati). Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 30(1), pp. 29-40, 2014. 

Juvenile Crime in Spain (with D.Montolio), Applied Economics Letters, 16(5), pp. 495-500, 2009. 

Expert and Peer Pressure in Food and Wine Tasting: Evidence from a Pilot Experiment (with G. Caggiano, M.M. Galizzi, L.Leonida and P. Vanin). Enometrica, 1(1), 2008, pp. 51-68. 

Crime, Education and Peer Pressure. Rivista di Politica Economica, Sep.-Oct., pp. 89-109, 2006. 

Education and Crime: Evidence from Italian Regions (with L. Leonida). Applied Economics Letters, 13(11), pp. 709-713, 2006.

Centralized vs Decentralized Police Hiring in Italy and the US (with G.Mastrobuoni), in Lessons from the Economics of Crime, Ed. P. Cook, S. Machin, O. Marie and G. Mastrobuoni, MIT Press, pp. 189-204, 2013. 

L’approccio economico alla criminalità e una analisi econometria del caso italiano (with L. Leonida), in M. Letizi (ed.): Comportamento Criminale, ecomafie e smaltimento dei rifiuti. Strumenti e proposte per un approccio analitico, Rubbettino Editore, Cosenza, pp. 87-131, 2004. 

Efficiency and Equity of Emission Trading with Endogenous Environmental Technical Change (with C. Carraro, M. Galeotti and E. Castelnuovo), in C. Carraro (ed.): Efficiency and Equity of Climate Change Policy, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 121-162, 2000.