I am an economist with interest in political, public, crime and development economics. I work as Associate (tenured) Professor at University of Milan (Faculty of Law) and as Executive Director of the CLEAN Unit on the economics of crime at Bocconi University. I am also a Research Affiliate at CEPR, an Associate at the Center for Economics Performance at the London School of Economics and an Associate Researcher at the Institut d'Economia Barcelona.
My papers have appeared in (among others) the Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Law Economics and Organization. In 2021, I wrote with Piero Stanig Fallimento Lockdown, becoming, in the same year, one of the best-selling books in the "political science" and "economics" categories on Amazon.it. I am a member of the editorial board of the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.
I have been involved in policy discussions on anti-corruption, organized crime and local politics. I am a scientific advisor for the European Observatory for the Defence of Democracy at the Local Level and I presented my research at institutions such as the United Nations University, the European Commission, the Italian School of the Judiciary (Scuola Superiore della Magistratura), the Italian Senate, as well as to the heads of the Carabinieri and the Anti-Mafia Police in Italy. Each year, I lead master’s and PhD courses on corruption and crime-related topics, training top-level bureaucrats and law enforcement officials at the University of Milan.
My research has been covered, among others, by The New York Magazine, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Courrier International, Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, La Stampa. In Italy, I've written on Il Sole24ore, La Repubblica and LaVoce.info.
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Wired - VIdeo Podcast - 2024 L'intelligenza artificiale può aiutarci a sconfiggere il crimine?
Inauguration of the European Observatory for the Defence of Democracy (Brussels, 2025)
2nd Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop, Sydney 2024
"Fallimento Lookdown", with P. Stanig, EGEA Bocconi Editore (2021)
Speaker at “Knowledge that matters” per la sicurezza e la legalità (Bocconi University) April 2022
Speaker at “Knowledge that matters” per la sicurezza e la legalità (Bocconi University) April 2022
UNU-Wider Conference, Helsinki (2022)
CLEAN participates at the 11th AL CAPONE Annual Meeting (Reggio Calabria, 2022)
13th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime (Milan, 2022)
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