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Working Papers

2025

1. Identity Under Scrutiny: Media Attention and Rule Compliance
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)

2022

2. Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (12)
   See also Journal Article Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2023) View citations (14) (2023)

2021

3. Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft
   Working Papers, Barcelona School of Economics
   See also Journal Article Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2023) View citations (11) (2023)

2020

4. Pains, Guns and Moves: The Effect of the US Opioid Epidemic on Mexican Migration
   BAFFI CAREFIN Working Papers, BAFFI CAREFIN, Centre for Applied Research on International Markets Banking Finance and Regulation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Pains, guns and moves: The effect of the U.S. opioid epidemic on Mexican migration, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2023) View citations (4) (2023)

2019

5. Violent Crime and the Overmilitarization of US Policing
   Discussion Papers, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Violent Crime and the Overmilitarization of US Policing, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press (2021) View citations (3) (2021)

2018

6. Flight from urban blight: lead poisoning, crime and suburbanization
   Working Papers, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB) View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Flight from Urban Blight: Lead Poisoning, Crime, and Suburbanization, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2025) View citations (1) (2025)

2016

7. Bringing War Home: Violent Crime, Police Killings and the Overmilitarization of the US Police
   2016 Papers, Job Market Papers View citations (4)

2014

8. Density characteristics and density forecast performance: a panel analysis
   Working Paper Series, European Central Bank View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Density characteristics and density forecast performance: a panel analysis, Empirical Economics, Springer (2015) View citations (17) (2015)

2013

9. Can macroeconomists forecast risk? Event-based evidence from the euro area SPF
   Working Paper Series, European Central Bank View citations (6)
   See also Journal Article Can Macroeconomists Forecast Risk? Event-Based Evidence from the Euro-Area SPF, International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Central Banking (2015) View citations (7) (2015)

2012

10. How informative are the subjective density forecasts of macroeconomists?
    Working Paper Series, European Central Bank View citations (16)
    Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2011) View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article How Informative are the Subjective Density Forecasts of Macroeconomists?, Journal of Forecasting, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2014) View citations (30) (2014)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Flight from Urban Blight: Lead Poisoning, Crime, and Suburbanization
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107, (3), 621-638 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Flight from urban blight: lead poisoning, crime and suburbanization, Working Papers (2018) View citations (3) (2018)

2023

2. Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15, (4), 218-51 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Contagious Dishonesty: Corruption Scandals and Supermarket Theft, Working Papers (2021) (2021)
3. Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138, (1), 413-463 View citations (14)
   See also Working Paper Inflammatory Political Campaigns and Racial Bias in Policing, CEPR Discussion Papers (2022) View citations (12) (2022)
4. Pains, guns and moves: The effect of the U.S. opioid epidemic on Mexican migration
   Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 160, (C) View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper Pains, Guns and Moves: The Effect of the US Opioid Epidemic on Mexican Migration, BAFFI CAREFIN Working Papers (2020) View citations (8) (2020)

2022

5. The Charitable Terrorist: State Capacity and the Support for the Pakistani Taliban
   Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2022, 66, (7-8), 1174-1207

2021

6. Police safety, killings by the police, and the militarization of US law enforcement
   Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 124, (C) View citations (3)
7. State, religiosity and church participation
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 186, (C), 269-287 View citations (2)
8. Violent Crime and the Overmilitarization of US Policing
   The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2021, 37, (3), 479-511 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Violent Crime and the Overmilitarization of US Policing, Discussion Papers (2019) View citations (1) (2019)

2015

9. Can Macroeconomists Forecast Risk? Event-Based Evidence from the Euro-Area SPF
   International Journal of Central Banking, 2015, 11, (4), 1-46 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Can macroeconomists forecast risk? Event-based evidence from the euro area SPF, Working Paper Series (2013) View citations (6) (2013)
10. Density characteristics and density forecast performance: a panel analysis
    Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, (3), 1203-1231 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Density characteristics and density forecast performance: a panel analysis, Working Paper Series (2014) View citations (2) (2014)

2014

11. How Informative are the Subjective Density Forecasts of Macroeconomists?
    Journal of Forecasting, 2014, 33, (3), 163-185 View citations (30)
    See also Working Paper How informative are the subjective density forecasts of macroeconomists?, Working Paper Series (2012) View citations (16) (2012)

Chapters

2023

1. Politics, Religion and the Evolution of the Welfare State
   Chapter 4 in THE ECONOMICS OF RELIGION, 2023, pp 111-133

2022

2. The economics of policing and crimeThe economics of policing and crime
   Chapter 2 in A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, 2022, pp 12-29 View citations (1)