All Publications

"Risk Allocation and the Costs and Benefits of Public-Private Partnerships," with David Martimort 2011. Forthcoming, The RAND Journal of Economics, 2011.

"Vertical Integration and Costly Demand Information in Network Industries", with Francesca Stroffolini, 2011. Forthcoming, Review of Industrial Organization, 2011.

"The Market for Lawyers and Quality Layers in the Legal Services”, with Bruno Jullien,. Forthcoming, The RAND Journal of Economics, 2011.

"Crowding Out Public Service Motivation", with Yannis Georgellis and Vurain Tabvuma. Journal of Public Administration and Research Theory, 2011.

Commercial Activity as Insurance: the Investment Behavior of Non-Profit Firms’, with John Bennett and Gabriella Legrenzi, 2010. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 81(3), pp: 445-465.

"Contracting Out Public Service Provision to Non-for-profit Firms", with John Bennett, 2009. Oxford Economic Papers 2010, 64(4) 784-802.

Lender Liability in the Consumer Credit Market," with Giuliana Palumbo, 2008. Oxford Economic Papers, 2010, 62(2), pp. 374-394.

“Partenariats Public-Privé: Quelques Réflexions," with David Martimort and Jérôme Pouyet, Revue Economique, 2008, 59 (3), pp. 437-449.

“Information Provision and Monitoring of the Decision-maker in the Presence of an Appeal Process; “with Giuliana Palumbo. The Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (4), pp. 657-682.

“Building and Managing Facilities for Public Services”, with John Bennett, The Journal of Public Economics, November 2006, 90 (10-11) , pp. 2143-2160.

“Delegation of Contracting in the Private Provision of Public Services”, with John Bennett, Review of Industrial Organization, August-September 2006, 29 (1-2) pp. 75-92 Special Issue on Public-Private Partnerships.

“Price cap Regulation, Revenue Sharing and Information Acquisition”, with Francesca Stroffolini. Information Economics and Policy, 2005 (17), pp.217-230.

“Auditing and Property Rights”, with Patrick Legros. The RAND Journal of Economics, 2004, 35, pp. 356-372.

“Product Quality, Lender Liability and Consumer Credit”, with Giuliana Palumbo. Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56, pp.331, 343.

“The role of commercial non-profit organisations in Public -Private Partnerships”, with John Bennett and Gabriella Legrenzi. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 19(2), 2003, pp. 335-347. Eds. Paul Grout and Margaret Stevens.

“Competition among universities and the emergence of the elite institution”, with Gianni De Fraja. Bulletin of Economic Research, 54, July 2002, pp. 275-293.

“Price Cap Regulation and Information Acquisition”, with Francesca. Stroffolini. The International Journal of Industrial Organization, 20(7), August 2002, pp.1013-1036.

“Informative Externalities and Pricing in Regulated Multiproduct Industries”, The Journal of Industrial Economics, 47(2), June 1999, pp.195-219.

“Price Caps and Output Floors: a Comparison of Simple Regulatory Rules”, with Gianni De Fraja. The Economic Journal, 108, n.450, September 1998, pp.1404-1421.

PUBLICATIONS: CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“L’allocazione del Rischio e la Struttura degli Incentivi nel Partenariato Pubblico Privato”, 2009, In “Il Finanziamento di Infrastrutture in Italia, Ed: A. Macchiati, G. Napolitano, Il Mulino.

"The Theory of Incentives Applied to PPPs in the Transport Sector", with David Martimort, 2011, in The Handbook of Transportation Economics, Edited by André de Palma , Robin Lindsey and Emile Quinet, et R Vickerman, Edwar Elgar.

Public Private Partnerships and the Bundling of Project Phases’. In ‘Servizi pubblici. Nuove tendenze nella regolamentazione, nella produzione e nel finanziamento’, 2007. Edited by Massimo Marrelli, Fabio Padovano, Ilde Rizzo. FrancoAngeli Editore, Milano.

‘Procurement Contracting Strategies’, with Gian Luigi Albano, Giacomo Calzolari, Federico Dini and Giancarlo Spagnolo, N. Dimitri, G. Piga and G. Spagnolo (Eds.), Handbook of Procurement, 2006, Cambridge University Press.

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES IN ITALIAN OR ITALIAN JOURNALS

“Potenzialità e Criticità del Partenariato Pubblico Private in Italia”, Rivista di Politica Economica, May 2009, pp.125-158.

“Price versus Output Regulation under Asymmetric Information on Demand”, Rivista Italiana Degli Economisti, IV, n.3 December 1999, pp.359-374.

“Regolamentazione del prezzo in presenza di asimmetria informativa sulla domanda” (Price Regulation under Asymmetric Information on Demand), Economia e Politica Industriale, 99, 1998, pp.99-120.

“Competition Ownership and Efficiency: an empirical analysis of the European airline industry”, Rivista di Diritto Finanziario e Scienza delle Finanze, LV, 3, I, March 1996, pp. 391-401.

“Benessere sociale e tipo di imprese: un confronto tra configurazioni industriali” (social welfare and mixed oligopolies). Economia Pubblica, 3, May-June 1994.