Research

Publications

“Scenario discovery for a just low-carbon transition” (with Marco Catola, André Cieplinski, Simone D’Alessandro, Tiziano Distefano, Pietro Guarnieri and Till Heydenreich), Ecological Economics, vol. 250, no. 109138, 2026, 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109138


“Climate adaptation and fiscal sustainability: When timing matters” (with Simone D’Alessandro and Tiziano Distefano), Italian Economic Journal, vol.12, pp. 811-843, 2026, 10.1007/s40797-025-00345-2


“Curbing energy consumption through voluntary quotas: Experimental evidence” (with Marco Catola, Simone D'Alessandro, Pietro Guarnieri and Lorenzo Spadoni), Energy Economics, vol. 150, no. 108881, 2025, 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108881


“Salience and information avoidance in voluntary carbon offsetting decisions: Evidence from online experiments” (with Chiara Gioia and Matteo Ploner), Ecological Economics, vol. 35, no. 108577, 2025, 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108577


“The slippery slope from pluralistic to plural societies” (with Chiara Rapallini and Aldo Rustichini), World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration, ed. by Robert M. Sauer, vol. 3, pp. 225-244, 2024, World Scientific, 10.1142/9789811248146_0010


“School friendship networks, homophily and multiculturalism: Evidence from European countries” (with Chiara Rapallini and Aldo Rustichini), Journal of Population Economics, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1687-1722, 2022, 10.1007/s00148-020-00819-w


“Pairwise interact-and-imitate dynamics” (with Ennio Bilancini and Leonardo Boncinelli), Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 13221, 2021, 10.1038/s41598-021-92512-5


“Pairwise imitation and evolution of the social contract”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 1333-1354, 2021, 10.1007/s00191-020-00714-3


“Frames, reasoning, and the emergence of conventions”, Economics & Philosophy, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 383-400, 2020, 10.1017/S0266267119000348



Working papers

Incentives and beliefs in the Nash demand game with voluntary quotas (with Marco Catola, Pietro Guarnieri and Lorenzo Spadoni)



In progress

Inequality aversion in AI-assisted routine and creative work (with Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Guido Musati and Matteo Ploner)


The second-screen problem: participant compliance and AI-assisted cheating in online experiments (with Matteo Ploner)


Public attitudes toward administrative detention: Experimental evidence