Last update: April 2026

Urban Politics

The urban roots of populism: Mapping and explaining populist strongholds within major Italian cities (2013–2022). European Urban and Regional Studies, 2025. (with Mirko Crulli) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09697764231210800

Sezioni Elettorali Italiane (SEI): a new database of Italian electoral results geocoded at precinct level. Political Research Exchange, 2023 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2474736X.2023.2185158

Dust and the City: Corporate Emissions and Electoral Discontent. Revise & Resubmit, 2025. (with Elisa Giuliani, Giulia Rossello and Mauro Sylos-Labini)

Urban Quality of life and attitude toward Radical-Right Populist Parties. Social Indicators Research, 2025. (with Mirko Crulli) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-025-03602-0

Measuring Political Territorial Representation Spatial Statistics, 2026.(with Augusto Cerqua and Alessandra Scerbo) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211675326000187

Political Economy

Do Voters Use Information on Candidates? Experimental Evidence from a Recent Election. Public Choice , 2025. (with Emma Galli, Giampaolo Garzarelli and Massimo Pulejo) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-025-01325-x

Pay Incentives in Politics: Evaluating a Large-Scale Salary Increase for Local Politicians. CESifo Working Paper, 2025. (with Augusto Cerqua and Samuel Nocito) https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2025/working-paper/pay-incentives-politics-evaluating-large-scale-salary-increase

Signature Spending Politics. Working Paper, 2025. (with Augusto Cerqua, Marco Letta and Costanza Giannantoni) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5216456

Airless democracy: Air Pollution and voter turnout, Working Paper, 2026 (with Giulia Rossello, Maria Antonietta Reatini, and Giorgio Cattani) https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/339309

Sports

Sports Nationalism and Xenophobia: Evidence from Germany. Journal of Peace Research, 2024. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00223433241231177

Anti-Social Behavior and recidivism in amateur football: evidence from Italy. Work in Progress

Machine Learning and Policy Evaluation

Femicides, Anti-Violence Centers, and Public Salience: A Territorial Approach. European Economic Review, 2025.(Joint with Augusto Cerqua, Costanza Giannantoni and Marco Letta) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105221

A Place Based approach to workplace fatalities. Working Paper, 2025. (Joint with Augusto Cerqua, Costanza Giannantoni and Marco Letta) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5040905

On the (Mis) Use of Machine Learning with Panel Data. Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics , 2025 (Joint with Augusto Cerqua and Marco Letta) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/obes.70019

Others

Political Talk Show Videos as Data Under Review. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4976364