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