RESEARCH

Book

Professionals and Productivity. The Diffusion of Soft Technologies during and after WWII
under contract with Princeton University Press
Book Project Book Prospectus

Published and Forthcoming Papers

Closing the Productivity Gap with the US: Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe
The Manchester School; 1-17, 2024 [lead article]

Creating the “American Way” of Business: Evidence from WWII in the U.S.
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings; 114: 582-85, 2024

The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets (with Nicola Bianchi and Enrica Martino)
Economic Journal, 133(653): 1738-72, 2023
Online Appendix Slides Replication Files
Coverage: Gender Budget Report (MEF-RGS) presented at the Italian Parliament; VoxEu; Faculti.net

Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development (with Nicola Bianchi)
Journal of Economic History, 83(2): 501-537, 2023
Online Appendix Replication Files
Coverage: WeTheItalians.com; UCLA Research Spotlight

Does Scientific Progress Affect Cultural Changes? A Digital Text Analysis (with Nicola Lacetera and Astrid Marinoni),
Journal of Economic Growth, 27(3): 415 - 452, 2022
Online Appendix
Coverage: Monash SoDa Labs Video; Livemint.com

The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the TWI Program (with Nicola Bianchi)
Journal of Political Economy, 130(6): 1630–75, 2022
Online Appendix Replication Files
Coverage: Visible Hand Podcast; Kellogg Podcast; Kellogg Insights; Weconpol Newsletter; Wexin (in Chinese); StyleLearn Blog

The Origin and Development of Firm Management
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 37(2): 259-75, 2021

Evolution of the Indian LPG Industry: Exploring Conditions for Public-Sector Business Model Innovation
(with Renu Agarwal, Neeraj Mittal, and Eric Patterson)
Research Policy, 50(4), 2021

Copyright and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Opera in the Napoleonic Age (with Petra Moser)
Journal of Political Economy, 128(11): 4163-210, 2020
Online Appendix Slides Replication Files
Coverage: Summary in the NBER Digest, at VoxEU, at EconomistsTalkArt, and on Weixin (in Chinese); Full Translation in Chinese on Weixin; Video by Econimate; Faculti.net; and EconFilms: How Copyright Improved Italian Operas; NPR Blog; Interview on Freakonomics (min 17:40-28:00); IMF podcast; The Start; Marginal Revolution; Slow Boring; JOTWELL; Intellectual Property Blog

Scientific Education and Innovation: From Technical Diplomas to University STEM Degrees (with Nicola Bianchi)
Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(5): 2608–46, 2020
Online Appendix Slides Replication Files
Coverage: The 2025 Economic Report of the President, Kellogg Insight, BYU Radio

The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfers
American Economic Review, 109(1): 121-55, 2019 [Lead Article]
Online Appendix Slides Replication Files
Coverage: AEA Chart of Week, Pro-Market Blog, Microeconomics Insights Blog, VoxEu, The Atlantic; Innovation Growth Lab; UCLA Research Spotlight; RIA Blog; Gridium Blog; ThinkLab.com; Alarabiya News; Wexin (in Chinese)
Awarded: Landau Prize for the best SIEPR Discussion paper, 2016 ; Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship, 2015

Economic Recovery and the Determinants of Productivity and Innovation: Evidence from Post-WWII Italy
Journal of Economic History, 78(2): 598-601, 2018 [Dissertation Summary]
Comments by Claude Diebolt, the convener of the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize Panel
Awarded: Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the best dissertation in economic history, 2017

Book Chapter

The Effects of Copyrights on Poets' and Novelists' Economic Return in Subjects of Literacy and Artistic Copyright, Cristiana Sappa Cristiana and Bonadio Enrico, editors, Edward Elgar, 2022

Working Papers

The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes
Quarterly Journal of Economics, revise and resubmit
Awarded: National Foundation Grant, Russell Sage Foundation Grant

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance (with Bo Li)
Review of Economic Studies, revise and resubmit
NBER Working Paper No. 29455; CEPR DP 16989
Coverage: VoxEu; Penn's Exchange Podcast; Berkeley Haas Sketch; MIWI Institute; UCLA Research Spotlight

The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War II Italy (with Mattia Bertazzini)

Women Inventors (with Sabrina Di Addario and Agata Maida)
Coverage: Chaire Femmes et Science

(De)Funding the Arts: Effects on Creativity (with Petra Moser)
Coverage: Cultural Economics Online Seminar; Faculti.net

Developing Down Under: The Case of Italian Prisoners of War in Australia (with Claudio Labanca)

The Origins of Lean Production: U.S. Training for Japanese Firms after WWII (with Mari Tanaka)