Recent Articles
- Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics, (with Marco Manacorda and Andrea Tesei), Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
- The Political Implications of Reference-Dependent Preferences, (with Fausto Panunzi and Nicola Pavoni), Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming
- Culture and Social Organizations in the Great Reversal: Europe and China, 1000-2000, (joint with Avner Greif and Joel Mokyr), Handbook of Culture and Economic Behavior, edited by: B. Enke, P. Giuliano, N. Nunn, and L. Wantchekon, North Holland, forthcoming
- Identity Politics, (with Nicola Gennaioli), Econometrica, November 2025
- Replies to Comments (with Nicola Gennaioli), Econometrica, November 2025
- Podcast: Identity politics and polarisation, VoxTalks Economics
- Economic Shocks and Populism, (with Fausto Panunzi and Nicola Pavoni), Economic Journal, October 2024
- Social Organizations and Political Institutions: Why China and Europe Diverged, (with Joel Mokyr), Economica, December 2023
- Historical Roots of Political Extremism The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy,(with Nicola Fontana, and Tommaso Nannicini), Journal of Comparative Economics, September 2023
- Creativity over Time and Space, (with Michel Serafinelli), Journal of Economic Growth, 27, 1-43, March 2022
- Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict, (with Giampaolo Bonomi and Nicola Gennaioli), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 136, Issue 4, November 2021, Pages 2371–2411
- Credit Misallocation During the European Financial Crisis, Economic Journal, (with Fabiano Schivardi and Enrico Sette), Volume 132, Issue 641, January 2022, Pages 391–423
- Culture, Institutions and Policy, (with Torsten Persson), The Handbook of Historical Economics, edited by Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico, 2021
- Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters, (with F. Matejka), The Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 19, Issue 3, June 2021, Pages 1899–1935
- an earlier longer version, September 2018
- an earlier longer version, September 2018
- Identifying the Real Effects of Zombie Lending, The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Volume 9, Issue 3, November 2020, Pages 421–429 (with Fabiano Schivardi and Enrico Sette)
- War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance During World War II, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol 12, no.4, October 2020 (with Stefano Gagliarducci, Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato, and Francesco Sobbrio),
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Social Norms with Private Values: Theory and Experiments, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 124, November 2020, Pages 288-304 (with Giovanna d’Adda, Martin Dufwenberg, Francesco Passarelli)
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Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule: A Theoretical Analysis, European Journal of Political Economy, 2017, (with Massimo Bordignon and Tommaso Nannicini)
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Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2017, (with Alberto Alesina and Francesco Trebbi)
- Emotions and Political Unrest, Journal of Political Economy, 2017 (with F. Passarelli)
- The Clan and the Corporation: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe, Journal of Comparative Economics 45 (2017) 1–35, (with A. Greif)
- Moderating political extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule, American Economic Review, 2016 (with M. Bordignon and T. Nannicini)
- Ideas or Institutions?, Journal of Institutional Economics, 2015
- Inflation Targets Reconsidered: Comments on Paul Krugman, May 2014
- Freeing the Italian School System, Labour economics (with A. Ichino), 2014
- The Political Resource Curse, American Economic Review, 2013 (with F.Brollo, T.Nannicini and R.Perotti)
- Social capital and political accountability, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2013 (with T. Nannicini, A. Stella and U. Troiano)
- Does information increase political support for pension reform?, Public Choice, 2012 (with T. Boeri)
- Italians are late: does it matter? , in. J. Shoven ed., Demography and the Economy, proceedings of NBER conference, Chicago University Press, November 2010 (with F. Billari)
- Culture and institutions: economic development in the regions of Europe, Journal of the European Economic Association, June 2010
- Cultural and institutional bifurcations: China and Europe compared, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2010 (with. A. Greif), reprinted in: E. Spolaore, Culture and Economic Growth, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar, 2013
- The Effect of Culture on the Functioning of Institutions: Evidence from European Regions, (joint with M.F. Harari), CESifo DICE Report 1/2009, forthcoming in Harrison, L. and E. Yasin, eds., “Culture Matters II: Focus on Russia”, New York: Lexington Books
- Democratic capital: the nexus of political and economic change, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2009 (with T. Persson)
- The scope of cooperation: values and incentives, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2008, reprinted in: E. Spolaore, Culture and Economic Growth, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar, 2013
- Institutions and culture, Presidential Lecture, Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, April 2008
- Why is fiscal policy often procyclical?, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008 (with A. Alesina and F. Campante)
- Bureaucrats or politicians? Part II: multiple policy tasks, Journal of Public Economics, 2008 (with A. Alesina)
- The growth effect of democracy: is it heterogeneous and how can it be estimated?, in: Helpman, E. ed., Institutions and Economic Performance, Harvard University Press, 2008 (with T. Persson)
- Electoral Rules and Government Spending in Parliamentary Democracies, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2007 (with T. Persson and G. Roland)
- Bureaucrats or politicians? Part I: a single task, American Economic Review, March 2007 (with A. Alesina), reprinted in: D. Masciandaro and M. Quyntin eds., Designing financial supervision institutions: independence, accountability and governance, Edward Elgar, 2007
- Electoral systems and economic policy, in B. Weingast and D. Wittman eds. Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford University Press, 2006 (with T. Persson)
- Democracy and development: the devil in the details, American Economic Review, May 2006, (with T. Persson)
- Economic and political liberalizations, Journal of Monetary Economics, October 2005, (with F. Giavazzi)
- Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott’s contribution to the theory of macroeconomic policy, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, March 2005
- The role of the state in economic development, Kyklos, 2005. Reprinted in: Journal of Comparative Studies, Beijing, 2013
- Constitutions and economic policy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004 (with T. Persson), Reprinted in: Journal of Comparative Studies, Beijing, 2013
- Constitutional rules and policy outcomes, American Economic Review, March 2004 (with T. Persson)
- How would you like to reform your pension system? The opinions of German and Italian citizens, in R. Brooks. and A. Razin (eds), Social security reform: financial and political issues in international perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 353-370 (with T. Boeri and A. Boersch-Supan)
- Electoral rules and corruption, Journal of the European Economic Association, June 2003 (with T. Persson and F. Trebbi)
- Pension reforms and the opinions of European citizens, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2002, (with T. Boeri and A. Boersch-Supan)
- Political economics and public finance, in: Handbook of Public Economics, ed. by A. Auerbach and M. Feldstein, North Holland, 2002 (with T. Persson)
- Do constitutions cause large governments? Quasi-experimental evidence, European Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, April 2002 (with T. Persson)
- Optimal regional redistribution under asymmetric information, American Economic Review, June 2001 (with M. Bordignon and P. Manasse)
- Would you like to shrink the welfare state? The opinions of European citizens, Economic Policy, 2001 (with T. Boeri and A. Boersch-Supan)
- Comparative politics and public finance, Journal of Political Economy, December 2000 (with T. Persson and G. Roland)
- A positive theory of social security, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2000, n.3
- Extracting information from asset prices: the methodology of EMU calculators, European Economic Review, October 2000 (with C. Favero, F. Giavazzi and F. Iacone)
- Unemployment, growth and taxation in industrial countries, Economic Policy, April 2000 (with F. Daveri)
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