Publications

‣ Politics in the facebook era. Evidence from the 2016 US presidential elections (with Michela Redoano; Antonio Russo; Angel Cuevas; Ruben Cuevas), 2025, European Journal of Political Economy

Selected Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal, Wired, HuffPost, El Pais, ScienceDaily

‣ Global spillovers of taxation in the online advertising market. Theory and evidence from Facebook (with Andrea Lassmann; Federica Liberini; Antonio Russo; Ángel Cuevas; Rubén Cuevas), 2025, European Economic Review

‣ Welfare losses of road congestion (with Antonio Russo; Martin Adler; Jos van Ommeren), 2021, Regional Science and Urban Economics

‣ The Congestion Relief Benefit of Public Transit. Evidence from Rome (with Martin Adler; Jos van Ommeren; Antonio Russo), 2020, Journal of Economic Geography

‣ Taxes and the location of targets (with Wiji Arulampalam; Michael P. Devereux), 2019, Journal of Public Economics 

‣ Was Brexit triggered by the old and unhappy? Or by financial feelings? (with Andrew J. Oswald; Eugenio Proto; Michela Redoano), 2019, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 

Selected Media Coverage: Financial Times, The Independent, Le Nouvel Economiste, Metro

‣ Happy voters (with  Michela Redoano; Eugenio Proto), 2017, Journal of Public Economics 

Selected Media Coverage: The Economist, Psychreg, Physorg

‣ Wellbeing over 50 (with Paul Anand; Alistair Gray; Laurence Roope; Ron Smith; Ranjeeta Thomas), 2015, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

Policy Columns, Reports and Book Chapters

• Communities of grievance (with Brigitte Granville), 2024, chapter in "Towards a Very British Version of the Culture Wars", ISBN ISBN9781032627199

• Which Way Now? Economic Policy after a Decade of Upheaval: A CAGE Policy Report (with Vera E. Troeger; Charlotte Cavaille; Michela Redoano; Anandi Mani; Helen Miller; Ioana Marinescu; Claire E. Crawford; Mariaelisa Epifanio et al.), 2019. 

• Politics in the Facebook Era. How reading political ads on Facebook affects our voting behaviour (…and helped Trump to win the Presidential elections) VoxEU, November 2018.

• Brexit – a cry of financial pain, not the influence of the old, VOX-EU , October 2017

• Brexit: financial unsatisfaction or intergenerational conflict? UK in a Changing Europe, October 2017

• Happy voters Briefing. Is the economy stupid? Social Market Foundation, May 2017

• Happiness and voting, VOX-EU , November 2013

• David Cameron should pay attention to the “Happiness” of British citizens; it will help him win the next general election, LSE British Politics and Policy, October 2013.