articles
Country Survey: Military Expenditure And Its Impact On Productivity In Italy, 1988–2008 (with Francesco Addesa), Defence and Peace Economics (2011)
This paper analyses the military expenditures in Italy over the period 1988–2008. The estimation of...
The Socio-Economic determinants of terrorism and political violence in Western Europe (1994-2007) (with Friedrich Schneider), European Journal of Political Economy (2011)
The main objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the socio-economic causes of terrorism...
On the Nature of Peace Economics, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (2010)
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the definition of “peace economics.” The...
Crime and Sport Participation Evidence from Italian Regions over the period 1997-2003., Journal of Socio-economics (2010)
What is the impact of sport participation on society? This paper is tackling this point...
International Relative Prices and Civil Wars in Africa: A Note, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (2010)
The key idea of this paper is that the relative price of primary commodities in...
working papers
The Probability of Military Rule in Africa, 1970-2007 (with Roberto Ricciuti) (2011)
In this paper we empirically analyze the socio-economic determinants of the existence of military dictatorships...
Life is now! Time discounting and attitude to crime, Evidence from Italian Regions (2001-2007) (with Sergio Beraldo and Gilberto Turati) (2011)
This paper tests the relationship between time preferences and crime rates as posited by Davis...
FINMECCANICA AMID INTERNATIONAL MARKET AND STATE CONTROL (with Andrea Locatelli) (2011)
Finmeccanica is the eighth largest arms manufacturer on a world scale. The article explains and...
International Relative Prices and Civil Wars in Sub-Saharan Africa. Theory and Evidence over the period 1995-2006 (2011)
This paper presents first a theoretical model of conflict between two agents characterized by a...
A Model of Conflict, Appropriation and Production in a two-sector economy (2007)
This paper presents a two-sector economy. In a contested sector two agents struggle to appropriate...
Where Economics Has Been Headed? Multiple Identities and Diversity in Economic Literature, Evidence from Top Journals over the Period 2000-2006, a first note (with Luigi Campiglio) (2007)
This short paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing research work focusing on richness...
A Model of Conflict and Conflict Management with Asymmetric Stakes (The Good Cop and the Bad Cop, Part II) (2007)
This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral...
International Institutions and Peace, An Economic Approach to conflict and integrative activities, Phd Manuscipt (2005)
This is my Phd Dissertation.