Salvatore Modica
Professore di Economia Politica
Università di Palermo
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Via Archirafi,34
90123 Palermo
Tel: +39 091 23895 276
email: salvatore.modica [at] unipa.it
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Ricerca
(Google Scholar page
here)
Social Mechanisms and Political Economy
- Recent Papers:
Cooperating Through Leaders,
with David K. Levine and
Aldo Rustichini, revised July 2023
Labor Associations: the Blue Wall of Silence,
with David K. Levine and Andrea Mattozzi, revised May 2023
The Tripartite Auction Folk Theorem,
with David K. Levine and Andrea Mattozzi, February 2023
Twin Peaks: Expressive Externality in Group Participation,
with David K. Levine and Junze Sun, Journal of Public Economic Theory 25 (2023): 897-929
Survival of the Weakest: Why the West Rules,
David K. Levine, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 204 (2022): 394-421
Failing to Provide Public Goods: Why the Afghan Army did not Fight,
with David K. Levine and Rohan Dutta, forthcoming in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
State Power and Conflict Driven Evolution,
with David K. Levine, in The Handbook of Historical Economics, edited by A. Bisin and G. Federico, Academic Press (2021), pp. 435-462
The Whip and the Bible: Punishment Versus Internalization,
with David K. Levine and Rohan Dutta, Journal of Public Economic Theory 23 (2021): 858-894
Interventions with Sticky Social Norms: A Critique,
with David K. Levine and Rohan Dutta, forthcoming in Journal of European Economic Association
Trade Associations: Why Not Cartels?,
with David K. Levine and Andrea Mattozzi, International Economic Review 62 (2021): 47-64
Selection by Committee: Anonymity and Gratitude,
with Luigi Balletta, Research in Economics 72 (2018): 511-517
Intervention and Peace,
with David K. Levine, Economic Policy (2018): 361-402. VOX-CEPR post
here
Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't: Two Masters,
with David K. Levine and Rohan Dutta,
Journal of Economic Theory 177 (2018): 101-125
Collusion Constrained Equilibrium,
with David K. Levine and Rohan Dutta,
Theoretical Economics (2018): 307-340 ; Web Appendix here
Size, Fungibility, and the Strength of Lobbying Organizations,
with David K. Levine, European Journal of Political Economy 49 (2017): 71-83
An Evolutionary Model of Intervention and Peace,
with David K. Levine, mimeo November 2016
Peer Discipline and Incentives within Groups, with David K. Levine, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 123 (2016): 19-30
Dynamics in Stochastic Evolutionary Models,
with David K. Levine, Theoretical Economics 11 (2016): 89-131
Evolution of Impatience: the Example of the Farmer-Sheriff Game,
with David Levine,
Federico Weinschelbaum and Felipe Zurita, AEJ: Microeconomics 2015, 7(3): 295-317
Bayesian Model Averaging for Generalized Linear Models with Missing Covariates,
with Giuseppe De Luca, Valentino Dardanoni and
Franco Peracchi,
Journal of Econometrics 184 (2015): 452-463
Didattica
Useful Book:
Ernst Gombrich,
A Little History of the World
A Paper Worth Reading:
Aldo Rustichini,
"Morality, Policy and the Brain"