PUBLICATIONS

"Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behaviour in the United States".  Joint with Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie School).
Forthcoming at The American Economic Journal, Economic Policy
Winner of the European Economic Association Young Economist Award 2020
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"Unpacking Social Capital". Joint with Ruben Durante (UPF), Luigi  Minale (UC3M) and Jim Snyder (Harvard). Forthcoming at The Economic Journal
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"Organised Crime, Captured Politicians and the Allocation of Public Resources"
Joint with Marco Di Cataldo (Ca’ Foscari). Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Volume 38, 2022
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“The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918-2017". Joint with Simon Hix (LSE) and Giacomo Benedetto (Royal Holloway, University of London). American Political Science Review, Volume 114 / Issue 3, 2020.
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"News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"
Joint with Luigi Minale  (CARLOS III). Journal of Public Economics, Volume 165, September 2018, Pages 230-255
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WORKING PAPERS

“State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State over 100 years”. Joint with Edoardo Teso (Northwestern University)
Revise and Resubmit at The Review of Economic Studies
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“The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of US Campaign Contribution”. Joint with Johannes Böken (Warwick), Mirko Draca (Warwick) and Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie)
Status: Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of the European Economic Association
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“Population ageing, voting and political agendas”. Joint with Matteo Paradisi (EIEF) and Francesco Barilari (University of Rome, TV). Status: Revise and Resubmit at the European Journal of Political Economy
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“Media Consolidation”. Joint with Gregory Martin (Stanford), Josh McCray (Utah) and Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie)
(full paper coming soon! email me for current version of the draft)
Status: Submitted
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“Man Bites Dog: Editorial Choices and Biases in the Reporting of Weather Events”. Joint with Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie), Matteo Pograxha (TCD) and Stephane Wolton (LSE)
Status: Ongoing
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SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS

"The impact of internet use on social capital". Joint with Ruben Durante (UPF), Luigi  Minale (UC3M) and Jim Snyder (Harvard)

"The Political Economy of Collusion: How Organised Crime Captures Political Institutions". Joint with Enrico Cavallotti (TCD) and Livio Di Lonardo (Bocconi University). Status: Ongoing. Paper coming soon, slides available.

“Leadership, charisma and dictatorship”. Joint with Francesco Barilari(TCD) and Nicola Fontana(TCD). Status: Ongoing. Paper coming soon, slides available.