Work in progress
I'm currently working on three projects.
1) Analysis of patent data, using the EPO's Patstat database. One paper
on the internationalization of R&D activities is
completed (see below), and one, on the methodological aspects of
developing patent statistics (with G. de Rassenfosse, H. Dernis, D.
Guellec e B. van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie)
is in progress (tentative title of the paper:"Patent statistics without
the home bias: a corrected count of priority filings using Patstat".
2) I'm trying to finish a book on Reputation-based governance. It's almost done. It's been almost done for a while. Drop me a mail if you want to read it, comments are welcome.
3) With Miriam Golden, I am working on a political economy paper titled "Incumbency and Reelection in a Multimember Setting:
The Postwar Italian Chamber of Deputies.
We presented a draft of the paper at a Workshop on Distributive
Politics, University of California at San Diego, April 18-29, 2008,
at a seminar at University Ca' Foscari of Venice, and at the 2008 APSA meeting in Boston, Aug. 28-31, 2008.
Recent Writings
See also: papers and data on infrastructure and public works
2008
The Internationalization of Inventive Activity: A Gravity Model Using Patent Data. Presented at the EPIP 2008 conference, 3-4 October, in Bern, CH. Submitted, under revision.
Pork Barrel Politics in Postwar Italy, 1953-1994, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 52, no. 2 (2008). Co-authored with Miriam A. Golden
2007
Reputation-based Governance, First Monday, September 2007
The Reputational Budget and its Uses. Mimeo. Presented at the First World Meeting of the Public Choice Society
Amsterdam, March 29 - April 1, 2007
Reputation-based Governance of Public Works, in G. Piga and Khi V. Thai, Economics of Public Procurement,
Palgrave. The same paper appeared in "Rivista di Politica Economica".
Rebag-Ware: Reputation-based Governance of Public Works (with Roberto Confalonieri and Cristiano Leoni).
Presented at the IST-Africa 2007 Conference & Exhibition, Maputo, Mozambique, 9-11 May 2007.
Play with Rebag-Ware 1.0.
Dal modello Consip a un sistema di procurement nazionale, in Luigi Fiorentino (a cura di), Lo Stato compratore.
L’acquisto di beni e servizi nelle pubbliche amministrazioni, Il Mulino, Bologna.
2006
Reputation-based Governance of Public Works.
Rivista di Politica Economica, No I-II, p. 161-184
The Quantitative Evaluation of the Economic Impact of E-Government: a Structural Modelling Approach.
Information Economics & Policy, 18, pp. 107-123
Read a methodological note linking the paper to the tradition in econometric structural modelling. "Hypermodel": a speech generator (in Italian).
Bad design by design: economics meets other types of interactions,
in Sebastiano Bagnara and Gillian Crampton Smith (ed.),
Theories and Practice in Interaction Design,
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New York.
Corruption and the Management of Public Works in Italy. With Miriam A. Golden.
in: International Handbook of Economic Corruption, ed. Susan Rose-Ackerman (Edward Elgar Publisher).
Misurare l'E-Government: il caso Italiano.
Rassegna ASTRID, 31 gennaio 2006.
2005
Proposal for a New Measure of Corruption, Illustrated with Italian Data,
with Miriam A. Golden.
Economics and Politics, Vol. 17, n. 1, pp. 37-75.
Disclaimer: This is an electronic version of an article published in Economics and Politics:
complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of
Economics and Politics, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via
the journal's website at
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0954-1985 or
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.
Replications of Golden-Picci measure in other countries:
"Corruption measurement and control. Towards a unified approach". Paper presented at the IV Global
Forum on Fighting Corruption, Brasilia, Brasil, 7-10 June 2005.
Più pubblico di così... , con Gustavo Piga. Il Foglio, 9 novembre 2005.
2004
Johanna: A Knowledge Centered Infrastructure for Teleorganizations,
With Mauro Gaspari, Davide Guidi, and Andrea Petrucci.
Proceedings of E-Challenges 2004.
Discussione a "Reti-Network", (D'Ignazio - Giovannetti), Rivista di Politica Economica, Marzo-Aprile 2004.
La Replica di D'Ignazio e Giovannetti.
Seminario sul Software Open Source,
CRC Emilia-Romagna - 20 May 2004.
2003
My Scale or Your Meter? Evaluating Methods of Measuring the Internet, with Giampiero Giacomello. Information Economics & Policy, Vol. 15/3, pp. 363-383.
Price dynamics in sequential auctions. New evidence using art auction data, with A.E. Scorcu, Empirica, Vol. 30, pp. 163-178.
Perchè l'amministrazione pubblica diffida di Apache?
, on the choice of Open Source Software by the Italian Public Administration.
La Voce, June 2003.
OSS in the Italian Public Administration
: a quantitative survey (May 2003).
2002
"European monetary integration and
integration theory: insights from the Italian case",
with Osvaldo Croci, in: Amy Verdun (2002) (ed.),
"The Coming of the Euro: European Integration Theory and Economic and Monetary Union", Rowman and Littlefield.
Le opere pubbliche dall'Unità d'Italia:
l'informazione statistica, in "Rivista di Politica Economica", special issue, May-June 2002.
The data.
"Le infrastrutture in Italia. Le differenze territoriali
e l'efficienza della spesa", in: L'Italia nella competizione globale - Regole per
il mercato, a cura di Mario Baldassarri, Giampaolo Galli e Gustavo Piga, Edizioni il Sole 24 Ore, Milano.
Johanna: Open Collaborative Technologies for Teleorganizations, Technical Report UBLCS-2002-12, with Mauro Gaspari, Andrea Petrucci and Giovanni Faglioni.
Fare le infrastrutture, a contribution to the public debate.
La Voce, October 2002.
"Le linee guida per l'accessibilità del World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C)"
(PDF file),
in Pierluigi Ridolfi (a cura di), I disabili nella società
dell'informazione, Franco Angeli, Milano.
"L'adozione delle linee guida del W3C sull'accessibilità in Italia"
(PDF file),
in Pierluigi Ridolfi (a cura di), I disabili nella società
dell'informazione, Franco Angeli, Milano.
2001
"Explaining long- and short-run interactions in time series data",
Journal of Business Economics & Statistics, January 2001.
"Internet al Governo",
with Claudio Caprara (what happens when the prime minister's office
digs the Web)
. PDF file.
In P.Bonora (2001) (ed.) "Comcities. Geografie della comunicazione", Baskerville.
"Public capital and economic activity in the provinces of the Emilia-Romagna region (with G. Peroni).
Working Paper, Universtiy of Ferrara, January 2001
Introduzione alla statistica (with B. Pacini). Clueb, Bologna. Read the index and the preface (in Italian).
Esercizi di Statistica. Ambientati in Romagna e altrove. Clueb, Bologna. Read the first pages of the book and a newspaper article to know more (in Italian).
2000
"Saving, Growth and Investment. A Macroeconomic Analysis using a Panel of
Countries", with O. Attanansio and A.E. Scorcu, Review of
Economics and Statistics, May 2000.
"Institution building and economic activity: The case of the Italian regions" (presented at the
ASSET 2000 Conference, Lisbon, 3-4 November 2000).
"Le verità sfuggenti dell'econometria": what
econometrics has to say about empirical research,
Keiron, September 2000 (in Italian)
"Il capitale nelle regioni italiane", with F. Bonaglia, WP.
n. 374, DSE, Università di Bologna (revised and updated
from a 1995 version).
1999
"Productivity and infrastructure in the Italian regions"
Giornale degli
Economisti e Annali di Economia, Vol. 58, N. 3-4, pp. 329-353,
December 1999.
La
Sfera Telematica, Baskerville,
October 1999. "To be read":here
are some generous reviews (in Italian).
A letter on the institutional consequences of the
"Caso Zamagni", September 1999 (in Italian).
A contribution to the infrastructure debate, Affari e Finanza"
(La Repubblica), 19 July 1999 (in Italian).
Oldies Goldies
La cronaca del Primo Plenum Supremo del Collettivo Immaginario: "Il giorno dello schiaffo", I Miracoli del Lider. Imola, 25 luglio 1993.
Italiani di San Diego (Il Manifesto, 9 maggio 1992)
A comment on Orwell's 1984 (in Italian)
Teaching
Year 2006-07
Economics of Information; (University of Bologna in Forlì)
Statistics
Econometrics II (Master in Economics, University of Bologna)
Acquisti pubblici, corruzione, reputazione, Università di Roma, Tor Vergata, aprile 2007
Year 2005-06
Economics of Technological Innovation; (University of Bologna in Forlì)
Economics of Information; (University of Bologna in Forlì)
Previous years
Statistics; (University of Bologna in Forlì)
Econometrics (University of Ferrara)
Panel Data Econometrics (at the Master in Apllied Econometrics, University of Pavia)
Applied Research Methods (at the SDIC, University of Bologna)
And now... The Classics !
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