Policymaking Conferences 

• Bank of Italy UIF – Bocconi Workshop “Quantitative methods and the fight against economic crime 2019” (Milan, IT, 2019)
• 1st Harvard workshop on Political Violence (Cambridge, US, 2018)
• "Corruption, Tax Evasion and Institutions" (Riga, LV, 2017): Video Coverage
• Bank of Italy UIF - Bocconi Workshop “Quantitative methods and the fight against economic crime 2017” (Rome, IT, 2017)
• Presentation at the Italian Senate of the paper “Mafia, Elections and Political Violence”, related to the activities of the Parliamentary Commission, “Commissione sulle intimidazioni agli amministratori locali” (2017)

 Media Coverage 

• Listed in the Top 300 economists on Twitter according to IDEAS/REPEC ranking (2018)
• Italian Press:  Open, Corriere della Sera, Lavoce.info, IlFattoQuotidiano.it, LaRepubblica, Il Giornale 
• International Press: The Guardian (UK), Royal Economic Society (UK), Kurier (DE), The Conversation (US), Chicago Tribune (US), The Local (US), Matamata Politik (Indonesia), Hindustan Times (IND); EurekAlert (US)

 
 Infographics

• ​Mafia and Political Violence in Italy ENG, ITA

​TV Coverage 

• L’aria che Tira (La7, IT, 2014); L’aria che Tira (La7, IT, 2017)​

Conferences

• 2018: NBER Workshop Political Economy (Cambridge, US); Harvard workshop on Political Violence (Cambridge, US); 10th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime (Paris, FR); European Association of Law and Economics (Milan, IT); European Political Science Association (Wien, AU)
• 2017: 16th “Brucchi Luchino” Labor Economics Workshop (Milan, IT); Petralia Workshop 2017 (Siracusa, IT); 2nd Workshop on Culture and Institutions (Galatina, IT); Workshop on Political Economy, IEB (Barcelona, ES / Organizer); Conference "Corruption, Tax Evasion and Institutions" (Riga, LV); American Economic Association annual meeting (Chicago, US); 1st Catalan Economic Society Conference (Barcelona, ES)
• 2016: 10th Workshop on Political Economy, CES-IFO (Dresden, DE); 2nd Workshop on the Economics of Organized Crime (Bergamo, IT); 1st Workshop on Culture and Institutions (Galatina, IT)
• 2015: Workshop on Political Economy, IEB (Barcelona, ES); Workshop on Political Economy and Local Public Finance (Lille, FR); SIRE Workshop on the Economics of Organized Crime (Glasgow, UK);
• 2013-2014: Royal Economic Society Conference (Manchester, UK); Conference Crisis, Institutions and Banking Union (Berlin, DE)

Invited Seminars 

• 2019: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES); ETH Zurich (CH)
• 2018: University of Lausanne (CH); University of Mannheim (DE); Bocconi University (IT)
• 2017: European Commission's DG Joint Research Centre, Ispra (IT); University of Warwick (UK); London School of Economics (UK); Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES); Institut d'Economia de Barcelona IEB (ES)
• 2016: BI Norwegian Business School (NO); University of Cagliari (IT); University of Ferrara (IT); Institut d'Economia Barcelona IEB (ES)
• 2015: Université libre de Bruxelles – ECARES (BE); University of Bari (IT); Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE); Université Lille I (FR); Queen’s University Belfast (UK); Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (DE)
• 2013-2014: University of Namur (BE); Paris School of Economics (FR); Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE); Université libre de Bruxelles – ECARES (BE); University of Bari (IT); Stanford University (US)