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Research

 

       N E W    A N D   R E V I S E D   P A P E R S

1.    The Emergence of Enforcement, January 2024, joint with Luca Anderlini, and Michele Piccione, Janeway Institute Working,
       Paper JIWP2222.

2.    Relational Contracts and Trust in a High-Tech Industry, August 2021, joint with Giacomo Calzolari, Johannes Koenen,
      
Giancarlo Spagnolo
, and Konrad O. Stahl
,
Janeway Institute Working Paper JIWP2101.

3.    Technological Innovations: Slumps and Booms, July 1998, joint with François Ortalo-Magné, CEP Discussion Paper
       No. 394
.

4.    Search, Sticky Prices and Deflation, June 1993, joint with Peter Diamond.

 

       P U B L I S H E D   A N D   F O R T H C O M I N G   P A P E R S

1.    Legal Efficiency and Consistency, 2020, joint with Luca Anderlini, and Alessandro Riboni, European Economic Review, 121(1):
       103323.

2.    Costly Pretrial Agreements, 2019, joint with Luca Anderlini, and Giovanni Immordino, Journal of Legal Studies, 48(1): 159-188.

3.    Firm-Specific Training, 2018, joint with Christopher Harris, Journal of Economic Theory, 175: 585-623.

4.    Collusion, Blackmail and Whistle-Blowing, 2018, joint with Rafael Hortala-Vallve, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 11(3): 279-312.

5.    Does Competition Solve the Hold-up Problem? 2016, joint with Kevin Roberts, Economica, 83: 172-200.

6.    Why Stare Decisis? 2014, joint with Luca Anderlini, and Alessandro Riboni, Review of Economic Dynamics, 17(4): 726-738.

       Blog Entries on the research project

7.    Child Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race, 2014, joint with Mariagiovanna Baccara, Allan Collard-Wexler,
       and Leeat Yariv, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6(3): 133-158.

       Online Appendix

       Press release and media coverage of the paper

8.    Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth, 2013, joint with Luca Anderlini, Giovanni Immordino, and Alessandro Riboni,
       International Economic Review, 54(3): 937-956.

9.    How to Sell a (Bankrupt) Company, 2012, , joint with Francesca Cornelli, International Review of Finance, 54(3): 937-956.

10.  Should Courts Always Enforce What Contracting Parties Write? 2011, joint with Luca Anderlini, and Andrew Postlewaite,
      
Review of Law & Economics, 7(1): 14-28.

11.  Courts of Law and Unforeseen Contingencies, 2007, joint with Luca Anderlini, and Andrew Postlewaite, Journal of Law,
       Economics and Organizations
, 23: 662-684.

12.  If You Cannot Get Your Friends Elected Lobby Your Enemies, 2007, joint with Antonio Merlo, Journal of the European
       Economic Association (Papers and Proceedings)
, 5(2-3): 624-635.

13.  Undescribable Events, 2006, joint with Nabil I. Al-Najjar, and Luca Anderlini, Review of Economic Studies, 73: 849-868.

14.  Endogenous Lobbying, 2006, joint with Antonio Merlo, Journal of the European Economic Association, 4(1): 180-215.

15.  Transaction Costs and the Robustness of the Coase Theorem, 2006, joint with Luca Anderlini, The Economic Journal,
       116: 223-245, re-printed in The Coase Theorem, Volume II, Richard A. Posner and Francesco Parisi (eds.). Edward Elgar, 2013.

16.  Bounded Rationality and Incomplete Contracts, 2004, joint with Luca Anderlini, Research in Economics, 58: 3-30.

17.  Costly Bargaining and Renegotiation, 2001, joint with Luca Anderlini, Econometrica, 69(2): 377-411.

18.  Renegotiation and Collusion in Organizations, 2000, joint with Miguel Villas-Boas, Journal of Economics and Management
       Strategy
, 9(4): 453-483.

19.  Incomplete Contracts and Complexity Costs, 1999, joint with Luca Anderlini, Theory and Decision, 46: 23-50.

20.  Describability and Agency Problems, 1998, joint with Luca Anderlini, European Economic Review, 42(1): 35-59.

21.  Ex-ante Efficiency of Bankruptcy Procedures, 1997, joint with Francesca Cornelli, European Economic Review (Papers
       and Proceedings)
, 41(3-5): 475-485.

22.  Learning, Wage Dynamics and Firm-Specific Human Capital, 1996, joint with Christopher Harris, Journal of Political
       Economy
, 104(4): 838-868.

23.  Incomplete Written Contracts: Undescribable States of Nature, 1994, joint with Luca Anderlini, Quarterly Journal of
       Economics
, 109(4): 1085-1124.

24.  Job Matching and the Distribution of Producer Surplus, 1993, joint with Giuseppe Bertola, Research in Economics,
       47: 65-92.

        A Note on G. Bertola and L. Felli (1993), 1996, joint with Christopher Harris, Research in Economics, 50: 317-319.

25.  Turnovers and Asymptotic Behavior of Workers, 1993, Economic Letters, 42: 43-50.

26.  Do Marginal Employment Subsidies Increase Re-Employment Probabilities? 1988, joint with Andrea Ichino, Labour,
       2(3): 63-89.

27.  Do Firms Insure Workers, or Workers Insure Firms? 1987, Economia & Lavoro, 21: 69-72.

 

       O T H E R    R E S E A R C H    W O R K

28.  Complexity and Undescribability, 2016, joint with Nabil I. Al-Najjar, and Luca Anderlini, in The Impact of Incomplete Contracts
       on Economics
, Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Patrick Legros and Luigi Zingales (eds.), Oxford University Press, Ch. 33.

29.  Active Courts and Menu Contracts, 2013, joint with Luca Anderlini, and Andrew Postlewaite, in Research Handbook on
       Economic Models of Law
, Matthew Baker and Thomas Miceli (eds.), Edward Elgar, Ch. 13.

30.  Agency Problems, 2008, joint with Luca Anderlini, entry for the The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics , Second
       Edition, Online Version 2016
, Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (Eds.), Macmillan.

31.  Costly Contingent Contracts: A Failure of the Coase Theorem, 2007, joint with Luca Anderlini, in Legal Orderings and
       Economic Institutions
, Fabrizio Cafaggi, Antonio Nicita and Ugo Pagano (eds.), Routledge.

32.  Book Review of Economics of Language, by Ariel Rubinstein, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, 2004,
        joint with
Luca Anderlini, Economica, 71: 169-171. 

33.  Competition and Hold-Ups, 2000, joint with Kevin Roberts, in Putting Economics to Work: Volume in Honour of Michio
       Morishima
, Anthony Atkinson, Howard Glennerster and Nicholas Stern (eds.), STICERD, LSE.

34.  The Theory of Bankruptcy and Mechanism Design, 1995, joint with Francesca Cornelli, in Crisis, What Crisis? Orderly
       Workouts for Sovereign Debtors
, Barry Eichengreen and Richard Portes (eds.), CEPR.

35.  Three Essays in Economic Theory: Collusion Delegation and Search, 1990, PhD Dissertation, M.I.T. Department of Economics.

 

       B L O G    E N T R I E S

1.    Statute Law or Case Law? 15 August 2008, joint with Luca Anderlini, and Alessandro Riboni, in Legal Theory Blog.

2.    A systemic vulnerability index: Measuring risk in the asset generation chain, 22 August 2009, joint with Luca Anderlini, in VOX.

3.    Quanti Rischi nelle Tappe Intermedie, 9 March 2010, joint with Luca Anderlini, in LAVOCE.


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