Media

2026
  • IlSole24Ore: Copiare senza davvero imparare. La lezione dalla pandemia e i rischi per le prossime crisi​
2025
  • Call Simone - Podcast - Power, Pressure and Local Democracy in Europe
  • TheGuardian: Attacked no matter what they do’: why female politicians face relentless cycle of abuse
  • Avvenire: Il prestito che non puoi rifiutare: come le mafie finanziano le aziende in crisi
  • Penale: Qual è l’effetto sulla recidiva dello scontare la pena in un carcere interamente femminile, piuttosto che in uno misto?
  • VoxEU: Criminal charges and political selection: Evidence on electoral outcomes and policy failures from Brazil
  • Le Monde: «Il n’y a pas de lien de cause à effet entre l’immigration et la hausse de la criminalité »
  • RAI3 - Tg Leonardo: L'algoritmo che prevede quando un Comune è a rischio infiltrazioni mafiose
  • IlMulino: L'immigrazione aumenta davvero la criminalità?

​2024
  • Vanity Fair: Donne in politica: una sindaca ha tre volte più probabilità di essere aggredita rispetto a un collega uom
  • Courrier  International: Un algorithme contre la mafia
  • TheConversation: Why are female politicians more often targeted with violence? 
  • TV2000: Podcast  on "Violence against women in politics" (in Italian)
  • Lavoce.info: La politica è un lavoro pericoloso per le donne
  • IlFattoQuotidiano: Le donne in politica sono più esposte a violenze e intimidazioni. E spesso lasciano – Lo studio
  • L'espresso: L'algoritmo batte la mafia sul tempo
  • VoxEU: How machine learning is aiding the fight against mafia infiltration in Italy
  • Elle: In Italia abbiamo un grave problema di violenza contro le donne in politica
  • SlowNews: I fondi di coesione hanno gli anticorpi contro le infiltrazioni mafiose?
  • VoxEU: Organised crime, violence, and support for the state
  • VoxDev: How the Mexican war on drugs fuelled organised crime
  • La Stampa: Un indulto “chirurgico” per svuotare le carceri 
  • Wired Italia (Podcast): L'intelligenza artificiale può aiutarci a sconfiggere il crimine?  
  • LaRepubblica: Le donne in politica nel mirino dagli hater: “Violenze e attacchi tre volte più degli uomini, bersagliate solo perché hanno potere 
  • Phys.org: Italian study reveals exposure to images of mafia violence increases trust
  • Bocconi Knowledge: Exposure to images of mafia violence increases trust in the state

2023
  • Vox Talks (podcast): Violence against women in politics 
  • Vox EU: Violence against female politicians 
  • France 24: TV live interview on Italian mafia changes over time 
  • DeTijd: Can Italy's Anti-Mafia Laws Tackle Our Drug Gangs? 
  • Bocconi Knowledge:  Scars Are Forever. Corruption Episodes Haunt Democracies for Decades 
  • TheConversation: Modern mafia: Italy’s organised crime machine has changed beyond recognition in 30 years (spanish version)  

2022
2021
  • "Fallimento Lockdown" Video Interview: Festival Diplomacy 
  • "Fallimento Lockdown" Video Interview: Festival Medioera 
  • ​"Fallimento Lockdown" Video Interview: Istituto Bruno Leoni 
  • "Fallimento Lockdown" Video Interview: LiberiOltre 
  •  LaVerità "Piero Stanig e Gianmarco Daniele: "Che errore chiuderci tutti in casa"
  •  UnHerd: Lockdowns failed to serve the collective good
  •  IlFattoQuotidiano: Le alternative al lockdown esistevano, ma si è optato per la strada peggiore
  • Vox Dev: "Information provision and street food safety: A field study in urban India" 
  • The Telegraph "More active government means a greater risk of corruption" 
  • Vox EU "Corruption under Austerity" 

2020
  • Vox EU "Covid-19 and socio-political attitudes in Europe: In competence we trust" 
  • The Conversation, Yahoo!News "How COVID-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about politicians" 
  • VoxEU "The rise of extreme politics in a federation" 
  • Bocconi Knowledge "Tagliando la spesa si riduce la corruzione, non i servizi" 
  • Bocconi Knowledge "Corruption, Not Services, Are Reduced by Cutting Spending" 

2019
  • TV: Corriere della Sera 
  • Corriere della Sera "La prima volta non si scorda mai: come Tangentopoli influenza ancora oggi i giovani di allora" 
  • The New York Magazine "America’s Most Socialist Generation Is Also Its Most Misanthropic" 
  • National Post "Mob muscle: 'Wiseguys use violence as a means to an end ... and that goal is always to make money" 
  • EurekAlert "Political corruption scars young voters forever, new research finds" 
  • ​Forskning "Korrupsjonsskandale kan ha merket unge italienske velgere for livet" 
  • Bocconi Knowledge "Political Corruption Scars Young Voters Forever, New Research Finds" 

2018
2010-2017

Policy Events

2026
  • Invited speaker at the “Police Communication, Trust, and Public Engagement: Research Meets Practice”, Newcastle University Business School
2025-2027
  • Scientific Advisor for the  Observatory for the Defence of Democracy (Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), Brussels
2021-2024
  • Yearly Master Class for Italian bureaucrats on anti-corruption policy (corso di perfezionamento "Anticorruzione e prevenzione dell'illegalità nella Pubblica Amministrazione e nell'impresa")
2024
  • Presentation of the paper “Mafia, Politics and Machine Predictions” to the anti-mafia commission of Milan city council
  • Presentation of the paper “Mafia, Politics and Machine Predictions” to the heads of the Italian police force – Carabinieri ROS (Rome, IT)
2022 2021
  • Invited speaker at the one-day workshop "Mafia male Comune" 
  • Policy discussant at the webinar "Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Mafia Infiltrated Municipalities in Italy", organized by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA): video
  • The Conference Board - Economists and Strategy Council (CEO and CFO of European corporations)
  • One-day seminar on data and Italian municipalities (“I comuni e l’analisi quantitativa”) by the National Italian Association of Municipalities (ANCI)
  • JRC Ispra (European Comission) guest seminar presentation of “Fighting Corruption with Austerity”
2020
  • Italian School for the Judiciary (Scuola Superiore della Magistratura), invited speaker in the course "Il fenomeno della criminalità organizzata tra storia, economia e sociologia"
2019
  • Bank of Italy UIF – Bocconi Workshop “Quantitative methods and the fight against economic crime 2019” (Milan)
  • ECFIN (European Comission) guest seminar presentation of “Fighting Corruption with Austerity”
2017
  • "Corruption, Tax Evasion and Institutions" (Riga): Video Coverage
  • Bank of Italy UIF - Bocconi Workshop “Quantitative methods and the fight against economic crime 2017”, Rome​: presentation of "Mafia, Elections and Political Violence" 
  • Italian Senate, Rome: presentation of the paper “Mafia, Elections and Political Violence”, related to the activities of the Parliamentary Commission, “Commissione sulle intimidazioni agli amministratori locali” 
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)