Publications

– “Lockdown and Voting Behaviour: A Natural Experiment on Postponed Elections during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, with G. Loumeau, (2022) Economic Policy [link]

[Media coverage: VoxEU, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Alternatives Economiques]

–“The effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Income Inequality: Evidence from Italy”, with S. Galletta, (2022) The Review of Economics and Statistics [link]

[Media coverage: VoxEU, The Post, Institute for Policy Studies, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Jornal de Negócios]

– “Exposure to Corruption and Political Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipalities”, (2021) European Journal of Political Economy [link]

Working papers

–“A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy”, with E. Ash and S. Galletta, [WP Jun2020] R&R on American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

–“War Violence Exposure and Tax Compliance”, with S. Galletta, [WP Jan2023]

–“Taxation with a Grain of Salt: The Long-Term Effect of Fiscal Policy on Local Development”, with G. Loumeau, [WP Oct2022]

– “The Cost of Gender Identity Norms: Evidence from a Spouse Tax Credit”, with E. Rubolino, [WP Jul2022]

– “Corruption and Extremism”, with A. Gaspar, M. Morelli and A. Nicolò

[Media coverage: Democracy International]

– “Corruption under Austerity”, with G. Daniele, [WP May2020]

[Media coverage: Bocconi Knowledge, VoxEu, The Telegraph]

– “A Fistful of Dollars: Rent Seeking Behaviour and Local Tax Manipulation”, [WP Oct2019]

– “Does Progressivity Always Lead to Progress? The Impact of Local Redistribution on Tax Manipulation”, [WP Apr2019]

(Selected) Work in progress

– “The Economic Cost of Ambiguous Laws”, with L. Guiso, C. Michelacci and M. Morelli

– “Signaling Incentives and the Quality of Legislation: A Text and Network Analysis of the U.S. Congress”, with M. Morelli and M. D. Paserman

–“Tax Technology and Long-Term Regional Development”, with M. Köthenbürger and G. Loumeau