Papers

Updated: February 2024

Unpublished

The Evolution of Moral Foundations with Michelle Avataneo.

Gender Disparities in the Welfare Effect of the Minimum Wage with Decio Coviello and Erika Deserranno.

The Little Book of Crisis Exercises

Representation is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity with Justus Baron, Bernhard Ganglmair, Timothy Simcoe, and Emanuele Tarantino.

A Theory of Non-Democratic Redistribution and Public Good Provision

Information Acquisition and the Excess Refund Puzzle Mimeo, joint with Steven Matthews.

Generic Uniqueness of the Solutions to a Continuous Linear Programming Problem Mimeo.

Rational Choice Foundations of Equal Protection in Selective Enforcement: Theory and Evidence Mimeo.

Games of Redistributive Politics Are Equivalent to All-Pay Auctions With Consolation Prizes Mimeo.

Published and Forthcoming

Effect of Firing Frictions on Turnover with Omar Bamieh, Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino. Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics.

Optimal Procurement with Quality Concerns with Giuseppe Lopomo and Alessandro T. Villa. The American Economic Review 13.6 (2023): 1505-1529.

Equilibrium Selection Through Forward Induction in Cheap Talk Games with Nemanja Antic. Games and Economic Behavior 138 (2023): 299-310.

Effect of Mood on Workplace Productivity Mimeo, joint with Decio Coviello, Erika Deserranno, and Paola Sapienza. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization,

September 2022.

Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer with Decio Coviello and Erika Deserranno. Journal of Political Economy 130 (9), September 2022.

Counterproductive Worker Behavior After a Pay Cut with Decio Coviello and Erika Deserranno. Journal of the European Economic Association 20(1), February 2022, Pages 222–263.

Demand Shocks and Firm Investment: Micro-evidence from a Fiscal Retrenchment in Italy with Decio Coviello, Immacolata Marino, and Tommaso Nannicini. The Economic Journal, 2021.

Cheap Talk with Endogenous Conflict of Interest with Nemanja Antic. Econometrica 88(6) (2020), pp. 2663-2695.

The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements with Laurent Bouton and Alessandro Lizzeri. The Review of Economic Studies 87(6) (2020), pp. 2568-2599.

Measuring the Gains from Labor Specialization with Decio Coviello and Andrea Ichino. Journal of Law and Economics 62.3 (2019): 403-426.

Bounded Rationality and the Theory of Property with Oren Bar-Gill. Notre Dame Law Review 2018;94:1019

Criminal Background and Job Performance Mimeo, joint with Dylan Minor and Deborah Weiss. IZA Journal of Labor Policy 7.1 (2018): 8.

Multitasking, Multi-Armed Bandits, and the Italian Judiciary with Robert Bray, Decio Coviello, and Andrea Ichino. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 18(4), 2016, pp. 545-558.

Exchange Efficiency with Weak Ownership Rights with Oren Bar-Gill. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 8(4), 2016, pp. 230-67.

An Economic Analysis of Black-White Disparities in NYPD's Stop and Frisk Program with Decio Coviello. We offer access to the replication material to faculty and graduate students. Please write decio.coviello@hec.ca if you would like access. Journal of Legal Studies 44(2), June 2015, pp. 315-360.

The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use with Decio Coviello and Andrea Ichino. Journal of the European Economic Association 13(5), pp. 906–947, October 2015. Online Appendix

The Political Economy of Occupational Licensing Associations Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization (2014).

Time Allocation and Task Juggling with Decio Coviello and Andrea Ichino. American Economic Review (2014), 104(2): 609-23

Decentralized Deterrence, with an Application to Labor Tax Auditing, with Edoardo Di Porto and Nicolas Sahuguet. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2013), 5(1): 35-62.

Evidence of Discrimination Journal of Legal Studies (2012): Vol. 41:2, Article 4.

A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs with Manolis Galenianos and Rosalie Liccardo Pacula. Review of Economic Studies (2012) 79(3), pp. 1239-1269.

Factions and Political Competition with José C. R. Pueblita and Dan Silverman. Journal of Political Economy 119(2), April 2011, pp. 242-288.

Information Acquisition and the Exclusion of Evidence in Trials with Benjamin Lester and Ludo Visschers. Journal of Law, Economics & Organizations (2012) 28 (1), pp. 163-182.

A Theory of Optimal Random Crackdowns with Jan Eeckhout and Petra Todd. The American Economic Review 100(3), June 2010, pp. 1104-35.

Electoral Incentives, Political Risk-Taking and Policy Reform with Alessandro Lizzeri. Published in The Political Economy of Democracy. E. Aragones, C. Bevia, H. Llavador, N. Schofield, eds. Published by Fundación BBVA.

Racial Profiling? Detecting Bias Using Statistical Evidence Annual Review of Economics (first issue).

The hit rates test for racial bias in motor-vehicle searches Justice Quarterly, 25(1) March 2008, pp. 37-53, with Petra Todd.

Generalising the Hit Rates Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement, with an Application to Vehicle Searches in Wichita The Economic Journal, 116 (November 2006), pp. F351- F367, with Petra Todd.

Campaign Spending Regulation in a Model of Redistributive Politics Economic Theory 28(1), May 2006, pp. 95 – 124, with Nicolas Sahuguet.

A Drawback of Electoral Competition Journal of the European Economic Association 3(4), December 2005, 1318-1348, with Alessandro Lizzeri.

Passenger Profiling, Imperfect Screening, and Airport Security The American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings (2005), pp. 127-31, with Petra Todd.

Detecting Bias: Using Statistical Evidence to Establish Intentional Discrimination in Racial Profiling Cases University of Chicago Legal Forum, (2005), pp. 217-35, with David Castleman.

The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height Journal of Political Economy 112(5), October 2004, pp. 1019-53, with Andrew Postlewaite and Dan Silverman.

Featured in:

Chicago Tribune’s
“High Expectations”

Chicago Sun-Times’
“Short Guys Don’t Measure Up on Payday”

The Economist’s
“Feet, Dollars and Inches”

The Economist’s
“Walk Tall”

Forbes’s
“Presidential Timber Tends To Be Tall”

Slate’s
“Short Changed”

The New York Times’
“Ideas & Trends; Short Men, Short Shrift. Are Drugs the Answer?”

The New York Times’
“Success Is Relative, and Height Isn’t Everything”

Why Did the Elites Extend the Suffrage? Democracy and the Scope of Government, With an Application to Britain’s ‘Age of Reform’ Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(2), May 2004, pp. 707 – 765, with Alessandro Lizzeri.

Committee Design with Endogenous Information Review of Economic Studies 71(1), January 2004, pp. 165-94.

Racial Profiling, Fairness, and Effectiveness of Policing American Economic Review 92(5), December 2002, pp. 1472-97.

The Provision of Public Goods under Alternative Electoral Incentives American Economic Review 91(1), March 2001, pp. 225-39, with Alessandro Lizzeri.

Racial Bias in Motor-Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence Journal of Political Economy 109(1), February 2001, pp. 203-29, with John Knowles and Petra Todd.

Featured in:

Slate’s
“The Crazy Incentives of the Drug War”

Information Acquisition in Auctions Econometrica 68(1), January 2000, pp. 135-48.

Uniqueness and Existence of Equilibrium in Auctions with a Reserve Price Games and Economic Behavior 30(1), January 2000, pp. 83-114, with Alessandro Lizzeri.

Acyclicity of Optimal Paths In Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Social Sciences F. Gori, L. Geronazzo, M. Galeotti, editors, pp. 283-95. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 1993, with Luigi Montrucchio.