Working
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Publications
The
Economics of Extortion: Theory and the Case of the
Sicilian Mafia (2023), (with L. Balletta), Journal
of Comparative Economics 51(4): 1109-1141.
School-age vaccination, school openings and Covid-19 diffusion (2023), (with E. Amodio, M. Battisti, A.F. Gravina, G. Maggio), Health Economics 32: 1084-1100
Taking Care of Everyone's Business: Interpreting Sicilian
Mafia Embedment through Spatial Network Analysis (2022),
(with M. Battisti and R. Musotto), Global Crime (Issue
2: The Criminology of Carlo Morselli), 171-192.
Shooting Down the
Price: Evidence from Mafia Homicides and Housing
Prices (2022),
(with M. Battisti, G. Bernardo and G. Maggio), Papers
in Regional Science,
101: 659-683
Deep and Proximate Determinants of the World Income Distribution (2020), (with D. Fiaschi and A. Parenti), Review of Income and Wealth 66: 677-710.
World Interest Rates and Inequality: Insight from the Galor-Zeira Mode (2020) (with M. Battisti and T. Fioroni), Macroeconomic Dynamics 5: 1042-1072.
Resisting the Extortion Racket: an Empirical Analysis (2018) (with M. Battisti, L. Masserini, and M. Pratesi), European Journal of Law and Economics 46: 1-37.
Does EU Cohesion Policy work? Theory and evidence (2018), (with D. Fiaschi and A. Parenti), Journal of Regional Science 58: 386-423.
Organised Crime and the Economy: a Framework for Policy Prescriptions (2014), Global Crime 15, 164-190.
Transitions Out of Unemployment: the Role of Social Networks' Topology and Firms' Recruitment Strategies (2011), (with N. Meccheri) Metroeconomica 62, 24-52.
Economic Structure and Vulnerability to Organised Crime: Evidence from Sicily (2008), Global Crime 9, 198-220.
Productivity Polarization and Sectoral Dynamics in European Regions" (2007), (with D. Fiaschi) , Journal of Macroeconomics 29, 612-637.
Appropriate Technology in a Solovian Nonlinear Growth Model" (2007), (with D. Fiaschi), Oxford Review of Economic Policy 23, 115-133.
Nonlinear Economic Growth: Some Theory and Cross-country Evidence (2007), (with D. Fiaschi), Journal of Development Economics 84, 271-290.
On High-Skill and Low-Skill Equilibria: a Markov Chain Approach (2006), Metroeconomica. 57, 121-157.
Nonlinear Growth in a Long-Run Perspective" (2004) (with D. Fiaschi), Applied Economics Letters 11, 101-104.
Distribution Dynamics and Nonlinear Growth" (2003) (with D. Fiaschi), Journal of Economic Growth 8, 379-401.
Smith, Marhall and Young on Division of Labor and Economic Growth (2003), European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 10, 81-108.
Investment-Productivity Dynamics and Distribution Dynamics in a Multisector Economy: Some Theory and an Application to Italian Regions" (2003), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 14, 185-211.
Segmentazione del mercato del lavoro ed acquisizione di capitale umano: un'applicazione delle catene di Markov" (2001), (Labor Market Segmentation and Human Capital Acquisition: an Application of Markov Chains), Studi Economici 73, 103-129.