Labor Associations: the Blue Wall of Silence, with David K. Levine and Andrea Mattozzi, revised April 2026

The Tripartite Auction Folk Theorem, with David K. Levine and Andrea Mattozzi, European Economic Review 162 (February 2024)

Social Mechanisms and Political Economy: When Lobbyists Succeed, Pollsters Fail and Populists Win, with David K. Levine and Andrea Mattozzi (2023). (This is a freely available research book)

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, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (2023)

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, Journal of European Economic Association 20(1) 2022: 39-78

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

A Generalized Missing-indicator Approach to Regression with Imputed Covariates, with Valentino Dardanoni, Giuseppe De Luca and Franco Peracchi, The Stata Journal 12(4) 2012 pp.575-604,

Anti-Malthus: Conflict and the Evolution of Societies, with David K. Levine, Research in Economics Vo. 76, 2013, pp.289-306

Government Size, the Role of Commitments, with Giuseppe Albanese, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 74(4) 2012 pp.532-546, Working paper here

Open Source without Free-Riding, Economia Politica August 2012, Working paper here

School Grading and Institutional Contexts, with Valentino Dardanoni and Aline Pennisi, Education Economics 19(5) December 2011 p. 475-486, WP here

Regression with Imputed Covariates: a Generalized Missing Indicator Approach, with Valentino Dardanoni and Franco Peracchi, Journal of Econometrics Vol. 162(2) June 2011, pp. 362-368

Co-movement of Public Spending in the G7, with Giuseppe Albanese, Economic Letters 109(2) 2010 pp.121-123, WP here

Uninformed Traders in European Stock Markets, Studi Economici n.100, 2010/1, WP here

The Simpson Paradox of School Grading in Italy, Research in Economics 63, with Valentino Dardanoni and Aline Pennisi, June 2009

Grading Across Schools, with Valentino Dardanoni and Aline Pennisi, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 16, April 2009

Credit Market Failures and Policy, with Enrico Minelli, Journal of Public Economic Theory 11(3): 363-382, June 2009

Unawareness, Priors and Posteriors, Decisions in Economics and Finance 31(2) 2008

Knowledge Transfer in R&D Outsourcing: an incentive-constrained view, Atti Acc. Scienze Lett. Arti di Palermo, vol. XXIV, 2008

Notes on the Economic History of Linux (Appendix to R&D outsourcing), January 2006

A Note on Comparative Downside Risk Aversion, with Marco Scarsini, Journal of Economic Theory 122 (2005)

The Convexity-Cones Approach to Comparative Risk and Downside Risk, with Marco Scarsini, Mimeo 2002

Unawareness and Partitional Information Structures, with Aldo Rustichini Games and Economic Behavior, 1999: 265-298

Unawareness and Bankruptcy: a General Equilibrium Model, with Aldo Rustichini and Jean-Marc Tallon, Economic Theory, 1998: 259–292

Expected Utility for Decision Making with Subjective Models, Theory and Decision, 1995: 157-168

Awareness and Partitional Information Structures, with Aldo Rustichini Theory and Decision 1994: 107-124. Reproduced in Epistemic Logic and the Theory of Games and Decisions, edited by M.O.L. Bacharach et al., Kluwer 1997

A Neo Bayesian Foundation of the Maxmin Value for Two-person Zero-sum Games, with Sergiu Hart and David Schmeidler, International Journal of Game Theory, 1994: 347-358

Analisi di Arbitraggio della Differenza Attesa fra Costi di Acquisto e di Affitto di una Casa, Banca Toscana Studi e Informazioni, 1991: 83-89

Production and Inventory Policy of the Competitive Firm and Capital Market Imperfections, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 1990: 65-68

Business Cycles in Equilibrium: an Example, in The Economics of Missing Markets, Information and Games, F. Hahn ed., Oxford University Press, 1989: 452-467

Complete Irreflexive Preferences: a Definition, with Antonio Gay, Economics Letters, 1988: 205-208

Temporary Equilibrium with Money, Unit-Elastic Price Expectations and Production Lags, Economic Notes, 1986: 65-69

“Investimento, Incertezza e Vincoli di Liquidià” , Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia

Linear Approximation and Test of Linearity for a Particular Regression Model, Statistica, 1986: 93-97