Published Papers
Complementary Bidding and the Collusive Arrangement: Evidence from an Antitrust Investigation, (with R. Clark and A. De Leverano), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, accepted for publication.
Effect of Business Uncertainty on Turnover, (with O. Bamieh, A. Ichino, N. Persico), The Journal of Labor Economics, accepted for publication.
Effect of Mood and Worker Incentive on Workplace Productivity, (with E. Deserranno, N. Persico, and P. Sapienza), The Journal of Law, Economics & Organizations, Vol. 40, N.2, (2024), pg. 362-393.
Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer, (with E. Deserranno, and N. Persico), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 130, N.9, (2022) pg. 2315-2360.
Counterproductive Worker Behavior After a Pay Cut, (with E. Deserranno, and N. Persico), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 20, N. 1, (2022), pg. 222-263.
Demand Shocks and Firm Investment: Micro-evidence from fiscal retrenchment in Italy, (with I. Marino, T. Nannicini, and N. Persico), Economic Journal, Vol. 132, N. 642, (2022), p.g. 582-617.
Measuring the Gains from Labor Specialization, (with A. Ichino, and N. Persico), The Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 62, N.3, (2019), pg. 403-426.
Bid Rigging and Entry Deterrence: Evidence from an Anti-Collusion Investigation in Quebec, (with R. Clark, J.-F. Gauthier, A. Shneyerov), The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organizations, Vol. 34, N.1, (2018), pg. 301-363.
The Effect of Discretion on Procurement Performance, (with A. Guglielmo and G. Spagnolo), Management Science, Vol. 64, N.2, (2018), pg. 715-38.
Court Efficiency and Procurement Performance, (with L. Moretti, G. Spagnolo, and P. Valbonesi), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol.120, N.3, (2018), pg. 826-58.
Tenure in Office and Public Procurement, (with S. Gagliarducci), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 3, N.9, (2017). pg. 59-105.
Multitasking, Multi-Armed Bandits, and the Italian Judiciary, (with R. Bray, A. Ichino, and N. Persico), Manufacturing and Service Operation Management, Vol. 18, N.4, (2016). pg. 545-58.
The Inefficiency of Workers Time Use, (with A. Ichino and N. Persico), Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 13, N.5, (2015). pg. 906-47. Online Appendix
An Economic Analysis of Black-White Disparities in NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Program, (with N. Persico), Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 44 (June 2015), pg. 315-60.
Time Allocation and Task Juggling, (with A. Ichino and N. Persico), American Economic Review, Vol. 104, N.2, (2014), pg. 609-23.
Publicity Requirements in Public Procurement, (with M. Mariniello), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 109, (2014), pg. 76-100.
Financial Education and Investment Attitudes in High Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment, (with L. Becchetti and S. Caiazza), Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 23, N. 10, (2013), pg. 817-36.
Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Estimating the Effects of Education and Democracy, (with M. Bobba), Economics Letters, N. 96, (2007), pg. 301-6.
Completed Working Papers
Procurement with Manipulation, (with A. Guglielmo, C. Lotti and G. Spagnolo), revise and resubmit Journal of Public Economics.
The impact of centralization on procurement outcomes and market structure: Evidence from Italy, (with R. Clark and A. De Leverano), reject and resubmit RAND.
Gender Disparities in the Welfare Effect of the Minimum Wage, (with E. Deserranno and N. Persico), reject and resubmit Econometrica.
Book Chapters and Policy Papers
Does Aid Help Build Economic Institutions?, (with R. Islam), World Bank Policy Research Working Papers, N.3990.
Instrumental Variables Regressions in Growth, Geography and Institutions: Reconsidering Some Results. Papers and Proceedings of the ICES2003 conference, pg. 142-153. The Faculty of Economics at the Sarajevo and the World Bank, Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Papers in Italian
Giudici in Affanno, (with A. Ichino and N. Persico), forthcoming Annuario di Diritto Comparato e Studi Legislativi.