Publications

Papers

• A Model of Network Formation for the Overnight Interbank Market: When Is Core-Periphery an Illusion? (2026) with Mikhail Anufriev, Andrea Deghi and Valentyn Panchenko, Journal of Economic Theory 231, 106126;
• Beyond binary: a machine-learning classification of childhood COVID-19 vaccination intentions using behavioural data (2026) with Chiara Chiavenna, Maria Cucciniello, Laura Leone and Alessia Melegaro, Population Health Metrics, 24:8;
• What leads to vaccine compliance? Evidence from healthcare workers (accepted) with Tommaso Bellandi, Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli, Roberta Caldesi, Gustavo Cevolani, Alessandro Demichelis, Giacomo Galletti, Giovanna Mancini, Marco Marini, Dario Menicagli and Folco Panizza, Journal of Public Health Research;
• Dynamic opinion updating with endogenous networks (2025) with Ugo Bolletta, European Economic Review 176, 105045;
• Homophily and infections: static and dynamic effects (2025) with Matteo Bizzarri and Fabrizio Panebianco, Games and Economic Behavior 150, 235-259;
• Enhancing Institutional Trust: Evidence from an Experimental Study with Adolescents in Italy (2025) with Francesca Garbin, Gabriele Lombardi, Alessio Muscillo and Elena Sestini, Social Indicators Research;
• A Model of Network Redistributive Pressure (2025) with Salvatore Di Falco and Francesco Feri, Network Science 13, 1-14;
• Decentralized Pure Exchange Processes on Networks (2024) with Daniele Cassese, Social Choice and Welfare;
• Experimental Methods for Measuring Social Networks (2024) with Rebecca Morton, Eleonora Patacchini, Tanya Rosenblat and Jonathan Rogers, Journal of Experimental Political Science 11, 191-201;
• Information Transmission in a Social Network: A Field Experiment (2024) with Eleonora Patacchini and Tiziano Rotesi, Journal of Experimental Political Science 11, 135-146; [replication data]
• App-based experiments (2023) with Tiziano Rotesi, Journal of Economic Psychology 99, 102666;
• Learning and Selfconfirming Equilibria in Network Games (2023) with Pierpaolo Battigalli and Fabrizio Panebianco, Journal of Economic Theory 212, 105700;
• Does network closure beef up firms performance? (2023) with Alessio Muscillo, Tiziano Razzolini and Francesco Serti, Social Networks 73, 89-103;
• Debunking rumors in networks (2023) with Luca Merlino and Nicole Tabasso, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 15 (1), 1-32;
• Personal risk or societal benefit? Investigating adults support for COVID-19 childhood vaccination (2023) with Chiara Chiavenna, Laura Leone, Alessia Melegaro, Tiziano Rotesi, Scott Bokemper, Elliott Paintsil, Amyn Malik, Gregory Huber, Saad Omer and Maria Cucciniello, Vaccine 41 (25), 3683-3687;
• Adolescents opinions on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: hints toward enhancing pandemic preparedness in the future (2023) with Alessio Muscillo, Gabriele Lombardi, Elena Sestini, Francesca Garbin, Vittoradolfo Tambone and Laura Leondina Campanozzi, Vaccines 11 (5), 967;
• No-vaxxers are different in public good games (2022) with Marcello Basili and Alessio Muscillo, Scientific Reports 12, 18132;
• Efficiency and stability in a process of teams formation (2022) with Leonardo Boncinelli and Alessio Muscillo, Dynamic Games and Applications;
• Altruism and Vaccination Intentions: Evidence from Behavioral Experiments (2022) with Maria Cucciniello, Blanka Imre, Alessia Melegaro and Greg Porumbescu, Social Science & Medicine 292, 114195;
• Experimental evidence that changing beliefs about mask efficacy and social norms increase mask wearing for COVID-19 risk reduction: Results from the United States and Italy (2021) with Scott E. Bokemper, Maria Cucciniello, Tiziano Rotesi, Amyn A. Malik, Kathryn Willebrand, Elliott E. Paintsil, Saad B. Omer, Gregory A. Huber, Alessia Melegaro, PLOS ONE 6 (10): e02582821;
• National interest may require distributing COVID-19 vaccines to other countries (2021) with Tiziano Rotesi, Maria Cucciniello, Amyn A. Malik, Elliott E. Paintsil, Scott E. Bokemper, Kathryn Willebrand, Gregory A. Huber, Alessia Melegaro and Saad B. Omer, Scientific Reports 11, 18253;
• Spreading of an infectious disease between different locations (2021) with Alessio Muscillo and Tiziano Razzolini, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 183, 508-532;
• Link value, market scenario and referral networks (2021) with Yongli Li and Peng Luo, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 181, 135-155;
• Externalities Aggregation in Network Games (2020), with Francesco Feri, International Economic Review 61 (4), 1635-1658;
• Covid19: unless one gets everyone to act, policies may be ineffective or even backfire (2020) with Alessio Muscillo and Tiziano Razzolini, PLOS ONE 15 (9): e0237057;
• Bring a friend! Privately or Publicly? (2020), with Elias Carroni and Simone Righi, Management Science 66 (5), 2269-2290;
• Utility-Based Model for Exploring and Understanding the Evolution of Social Media Networks (2020), with Yongli Li and Peng Luo, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 50 (3), 1083-1094;
• Credibility of climate change denial in social media (2019), with Abhishek Samantray, Palgrave Communications 5, article number 127;
• Altruism and the Pressure to Share: Laboratory Evidence from Tanzania (2019) with Salvatore Di Falco, Peter Martinsson and Razack Lokina, PLOS ONE 14(5): e0212747;
• Network-based Risk Measurements for Interbank Systems (2018), with Yongli Li and Guanghe Liu, PLOS ONE 13(7): e0200209;
• The Stochastic Stability of Decentralized Matching on a Graph (2018), with Leonardo Boncinelli, Games and Economic Behavior 108, 239-244;
• Ties that Bind: Network Redistributive Pressure and Economic Decisions in Village Economies (2018), with Salvatore Di Falco, Francesco Feri and Xavier Vollenweider, Journal of Development Economics 123, 123-131;
• Contagious disruptions and complexity traps in economic development (2017), with Matthew Bonds, Charles Brummitt, Kenan Huremovic and Fernando Vega Redondo, Nature Human Behaviour 1, 665-672;
• Constrained Mobility and the Evolution of Efficient Outcomes (2017), with Elke Weidenholzer and Simon Weidenholzer, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 82, 165-175;
• Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parents Bias and Peer Effects (2016), with Fabio Landini, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 129, 56-73;
• Paying Positive to Go Negative: Advertisers' Competition and Media Reports (2016), with Andrea Blasco and Francesco Sobbrio, European Economic Review 83, 243-261;
• Cooperation, Punishment and Immigration (2015) with Brian Rogers, Journal of Economic Theory 160, 72-101;
• A network centrality method for the rating problem (2015), with Yongli Li and Chong Wu, PLOS ONE 10(4): e0120247;
• Communities and Social Inefficiency with Heterogeneous Groups (2014), with Alberto Dalmazzo and Diego Scalise, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 48, 410-427;
• Is there psychological pressure in competitive environments? (2013) with Francesco Feri and Alessandro Innocenti, Journal of Economic Psychology 39, 249-256;
• The Informational Divide (2013), with Manfred Nermuth, Giacomo Pasini and Simon Weidenholzer, Games and Economic Behavior 78, 21-30;
• Homophily and Long-Run Integration in Social Networks (2012), with Yann Bramoull, Sergio Currarini, Matthew Jackson and Brian Rogers, Journal of Economic Theory 147 (5), 1754-1786;
• Excess Covariance and Dynamic Instability in a Multi-Asset Model (2012), with Mikhail Anufriev, Giulio Bottazzi and Matteo Marsili, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 36 (8), 11421161;
• Stochastic Stability in the Best Shot Network Game (2012), with Leonardo Boncinelli, Games and Economic Behavior 75(2), 538-554;
• Collaboration in Social Networks (2012), with Luca DallAsta and Matteo Marsili, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (12), 4395-4400;
• Optimal equilibria of the best shot game (2011) with Luca Dall'Asta and Abolfazl Ramezanpour, Journal of Public Economic Theory 13 (6), 885-901;
• Eight Degrees of Separation (2011), Research in Economics 65 (3), 259-270;
• Identifying the roles of race-based choice and chance in high school friendship network formation (2010), with Sergio Currarini and Matthew O. Jackson, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (11), 4857-4861;
• Observed choices and underlying opportunities (2010), with Silvio Franz and Matteo Marsili, Science and Culture 76 (9-10), 471-476;
• An Economic Model of Friendship: Homophily, Minorities and Segregation (2009), with Sergio Currarini and Matthew O. Jackson, Econometrica 77 (4), 1003-1045;
• Assessing the relevance of node features for network structure (2009), with Ginestra Bianconi and Matteo Marsili, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (28), 11433-11438;
• Effects of Tobin Taxes in Minority Game markets (2009), with Ginestra Bianconi, Tobias Galla and Matteo Marsili, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 70, 231-240;
• Statistical Mechanics of maximal independent sets (2009), with Luca DallAsta and Abolfazl Ramezanpour, Physical Review E 80 (6), 061136;
• Optimization in taskcompletion networks (2008), with Luca DallAsta and Matteo Marsili, Journal of Statistical Mechanics , P02003;
• Marginal contribution, reciprocity and equity in segregated groups: Bounded rationality and self-organization in social networks (2007), with Simone Giansante, Alan Kirman and Sheri Markose, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , 31 (6), 2085-2107;
• Evolution of Risk Preferences (2006), Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance , 1 (1), 65-76;

Invited papers and entries in books and handbooks

• Youth and science: A randomized survey experiment on adolescents' trust in scientific institutions (2023) with Elena Sestini, Alessio Muscillo, Gabriele Lombardi and Francesca Garbin, Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, 35 (3), Supplement;
• Preface: DGAA Focused Issue on Dynamic Games and Social Networks (2022) with Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli and Simon Weidenholzer, Dynamic Games and Applications;
• Stochastic network formation and homophily (2016), with Brian Rogers, Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks , Y. Bramoull, B. Rogers and A. Galeotti (Eds.), Oxford University Press.
• Public Goods in Networks: A Statistical Mechanics Approach (2013), with Luca Dall'Asta and Abolfazl Ramezanpour , Chapter 5 in Game Theory and Applications Volume 16, editors L. Petrosjan and V. Mazalov, NOVA Publisher, 59-80;
• Simulations on Correlated Behavior and Social Learning (2010), with Andrea Blasco, in "Progress in Artificial Economics", editors M. LiCalzi, L. Milone and P. Pellizzari, Springer, 89-100;
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence - The effect of misperceived signalling in a network formation process (2007), with Simone Giansante, Alan Kirman and Sheri Markose, in Artificial Market Modeling, ed. Andrea Consiglio, Springer, 221-233;
• A Model of Myerson-Nash equilibria in networks (2006), in Artificial Economics, editors P. Mathieu, B. Beaufils and O. Brandouy, Springer, 175-188;

Books

• in 2009 Editor VDM Verlag published a book from my 2007 PhD Thesis: "Four multi-agents economic models - From evolutionary competition to social interaction" (ISBN 3639186540).