Working Paper Series

WP 2023-04. Executive Summary Among libertarians, it has been conventional to define the minimal state as a state that enforces contracts and employs coercion to prevent force and fraud only.…

WP 2023-03. Executive Summary We designed a Survey Experiment (SE) to study the attitudes of the Italians towards wealth, income and consumptions taxes. In particular, we interviewed a sample of…

WP 2023-02. Executive Summary We argue to look at the polity with the very same vista with which modern economics looks at markets, as the polity is nothing but the…

WP 2023-01. Executive Summary Today’s views and analyses about taxation are dominated by the social-welfare approach based on various categories of utilitarianism, most notably those developed by the optimal-tax literature.…

WP 2022-10. Executive Summary There is already a vast literature on the freedom to express one’s thoughts online. Most of this body of work, however, even analyses based on apparently…

WP 2022-09. Executive Summary This paper examines the assumptions that traditional companies are subjected to a higher level of taxation companies than digital companies. Our paper calculates the effective corporate…

WP 2022-08. Executive Summary We investigate the effect of rising temperatures on regional economic development, using annual sub-national data for over 1,500 regions in 155 countries between 1990 and 2017.…

WP 2022-07. Executive Summary The paper addresses the media filtering of experts. We consider a media firm that asks experts to assess if a given problem is major or minor…

WP 2022-06. Executive Summary We experimentally investigate the link between individuals’ value on future incomes and their support for redistributive policies today. The investigation identifies time preferences as a key…

WP 2022-05. Executive Summary Italy is a country marked by strong social and economic inequality among its regions. This inequality not only has deep secular roots, but seems to insistently…