Professor of Economics, Tor Vergata University of Rome
CESifo Research Fellow
PhD in Economics, University of Southern California
News:
CEPR-EIEF-Tor Vergata Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society, Rome 24-25 June 2022
New WP: "Lost in the Net? Broadband Internet and Youth Mental Health", joint with Dante Donati, Ruben Durante & Dijana Zejcirovic
Selected Publications
The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (with Francesco Drago & Roberto Galbiati)
Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(6), 2020 [Online Appendix]; [VoxEU]
War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance During World War II (with Stefano Gagliarducci, Massimiliano Onorato & Guido Tabellini)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(4), 2020 (leading article). [WP version]; [Online Appendix]; [AEA Research Highlights; VoxEU; Voce.info]
Opinion Dynamics via Search Engines (and other Algorithmic Gatekeepers) (with Fabrizio Germano)
Journal of Public Economics, 187, 2020. [Online Appendix] [WP Version] [Nada es Gratis; Voce.info]
Politics 2.0.: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation (with Filipe Campante & Ruben Durante)
Journal of the European Economic Association, 16(4), 2018. [NBER WP version]; [VoxEU]
Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit (with Francesco Drago & Tommaso Nannicini)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6(3): 159–188, 2014.
Copyright 2014, American Economic Association. [Online Appendix] [Data Set]