Publications

2025

Gratton G. and Edenhofer J. (2025). "The Rise and Fall of Technocratic Democracies: Unstable Majorities and Delegation to Technocrats". Forthcoming

Tricaud, C. (2025). "Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 17 (1): 160–207. 

Bramoullé, Yann and Goyal, Sanjeev and Morelli, Massimo (2025). “Social Structure, State, and Economic Activity”, BAFFI Centre Research Paper No. 242, April 11, 2025

2024

Bellodi, L., Morelli, M. and Vannoni, M. (2024). “A Costly Commitment: Populism”, Economic Performance, and the Quality of Bureaucracy. American Journal of Political Science, 68: 193-209.  

M. Gamalerio, F. Trombetta (2024). “Fiscal rules and the selection of politicians: theory and evidence from Italian municipalities,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (Forthcoming).

Gennaro, G. Lecce G. & Morelli, M. (2024). “Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States”, Electoral Studies, VOL. 92, 102853.  

Gabriele Gratton, Barton E Lee (2024). “Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies”, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 91, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 340–371,  

2022

Foarta D. & Morelli, M. (2022). "The Common Determinants of Legislative and Regulatory Complexity," BAFFI CAREFIN Working Papers 22185, BAFFI CAREFIN, Centre for Applied Research on International Markets Banking Finance and Regulation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy. 

Ash, E., Morelli, M. and Vannoni, M. (2022). “More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from U.S. States” (April 25, 2022). BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper No. 2022-178

 2021

G. Gratton, L. Guiso, C. Michelacci, Morelli M. (2021): From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and Overproduction of Laws, American Economic Review

2019

Invernizzi, G. M. and Prato, C. (2019). “Bending the Iron Law”, September 22, 2019