"The Human Side of Austerity: Health Spending and Outcomes during the Greek Crisis", Economic Policy, forthcoming

"Is Government Expenditure at the Zero Lower Bound Desirable?", American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2018 (with F. Bilbiie and T. Monacelli)

"Public Debt and Redistribution with Borrowing Constraints", Economic Journal, February 2013, 123, pp. F64–F98 (with F. Bilbiie and T. Monacelli)

“The Political Resource Curse”, American Economic Review, August 2013. 103(5), pp. 1759-96 (with. F, Brollo, T. Nannicini, and G. Tabellini),

"The Effects of Tax Shocks on Output: Not So Large, but Not Small Either" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4(2), pp. 214-37;

"Redistribution and the Multiplier" (with T. Monacelli), IMF Economic Review, 2011, Vol. 59, No. 4

“Unemployment Fiscal Multipliers”, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2010 (with T. Monacelli and A. Trigari);

“Fiscal Policy, the Real Exchange Rate, and Traded Goods”, Economic Journal, 2010 120(544), pp. 437-461 (with T. Monacelli);

“Openness and the Sectoral Effects of Fiscal Policy”, Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, April-May 2008, 6(2-3), pp. 395-403 (with T. Monacelli);

“In Search of the Transmission Mechanism of Fiscal Policy”, in: D. Acemoglu, K. Rogoff, and M. Woodford, eds.: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2007, Chicago University Press, 2007, 22, pp. 169-249

“The Effects of Fiscal Policy in Italy: Evidence From a VAR Model”, European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, Vol 23(3), pp. 707-734 (with R. Giordano, S. Momigliano, and S. Neri);

“The European Union: a Politically Incorrect View”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2004, 18(4), pp. 27-48 (with A. Alesina);

“Fiscal Policy and Monetary Integration in Europe”, Economic Policy, October 2003 pp. 534-572 (with J. Galí);

“The Importance of Composition of Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Exchange Rate Regimes”, Journal of Public Economics, September 2003, (87), pp. 2253-2279 (with P. Lane);

“Fragmented Fiscal Policy”, Journal of Public Economics, November 2002, (86)2, pp. 191-222 (with Y. Kontopoulos);

“Fiscal Policy, Profits, and Investment”, American Economic Review, June 2002, 92(3), pp. 571-589, (with A. Alesina, S. Ardagna, and F. Schiantarelli);

"Electoral Systems and Public Spending", Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002 117(2) pp. 609-657 (with G.M. Milesi-Ferretti and M. Rostagno);

"Is a Uniform Fiscal Policy Always Better? Fiscal Federalism and Factor Mobility", American Economic Review, June 2001, 91(3), pp. 596-610;

"Fiscal Policy in Good Times and Bad”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1999, 114(4), pp. 1399-1436;

“The Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustments”, The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1998, issue 1, pp. 197-266 (with A. Alesina and J. Tavares)

“Economic Risk and Political Risk in Fiscal Unions”, Economic Journal, July 1998, 108, pp. 989-1008 (with A. Alesina);

"The Trade Balance and Fiscal Policy in the OECD,'' European Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 42, 887-895, May 1998 (with P. Lane);

“Fiscal Policy in Latin America”, in: Bernanke, B. and J. Rotemberg, eds.: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1997, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1997, 12, pp. 11-61 (with M. Gavin);

“The Welfare State and Competitiveness”, American Economic Review, December 1997, 87(5), pp. 921-940 (with A. Alesina)

“Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries: Composition and Macroeconomic Effects”, IMF Staff Papers, June 1997 (with A. Alesina)

“Redistribution and Non-Consumption Smoothing in a Small Open Economy”, Review of Economic Studies, June 1996, 63(3), pp. 411-433

“Growth, Income Distribution, and Democracy: What the Data Say”, Journal of Economic Growth, June 1996, 1(2) pp. 149-187

“Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment”, European Economic Review, June 1996, 40, pp. 1203-1228 (with A. Alesina);

“Fiscal Discipline and the Budget Process”, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1996, 86(2), pp. 401-406 (with A. Alesina);

“Fiscal Consolidation in Europe: Composition Matters”, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1996, 86(2), pp.105-110

“Fiscal Expansions and Adjustments in OECD Countries”, Economic Policy, October 1995, 10(21) pp. 207-48 (with A. Alesina)

“Taxation and Redistribution in an Open Economy”, European Economic Review, May 1995, 39, pp. 961-979 (with A. Alesina);

“Together or Separately? Some Implications of Fiscal Unions”, European Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1995 39, pp. 751-758 (with A. Alesina and E. Spolaore);

“The Political Economy of Budget Deficits”, IMF Staff Papers, March 1995 (with A. Alesina);

“The Political Economics of Growth: A Selective Survey and Some New Results” World Bank Economic Review, September 1994, 8(3), pp. 351-371 (with A. Alesina);

“Income Distribution and Investment”, European Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1994;

“Political Equilibrium, Income Distribution, and Growth”, Review of Economic Studies, October 1993, 60(4), pp. 755-776;

“Income Distribution, Politics, and Growth”, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1992, 82(2), pp. 311-316