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: New York Magazine (US), The Guardian (UK), National Post (Canada), Royal Economic Society (UK), Kurier (DE), The Conversation (US), Chicago Tribune (US),  EurekAlert (US), Phys.org (UK),  Videnskab (DK), Forskning (NO), The Local (US), Matamata Politik (Indonesia), Hindustan Times (IND), EurekAlert (US)

 
 Infographics

• ​Mafia and Political Violence in Italy ENG, ITA

​Video/TV Coverage 

• Corriere della Sera (2019)
• L’aria che Tira (La7, 2014); L’aria che Tira (La7, 2017)​

Conferences

• 2019: IEB Workshop on Political Economy (Barcelona, ES); 5th Workshop on the Economics of Organized Crime (Organizer, Milan IT); ZEW Public Finance Conference (Mannheim, DE); Royal Economy Society Annual Conference (Warwick, UK); The Causes and Consequences of Populim (Milan, IT) 
• 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: Bocconi University (IT); Collegio Carlo Alberto (IT); Universitat Autonoma 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)

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