Research

Does the Winner Take It All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism (with Amedeo Piolatto & Gianmarco Daniele). Regional Science and Urban Economics, 105: 103986 (2024). [PDF] [WP] [VoxEU]
The Causal Impact of Pandemic Distress on Anti-Immigration Sentiments (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli & Lisa Windsteiger). Economica, 91 (363), 1124-1155 (2024). [PDF]
Conditioning Public Pensions on Health: Effects on Capital Accumulation and Welfare (with Giorgio Fabbri, Paolo Melindi-Ghidi & Marie-Louise Leroux). Journal of Population Economics, 37 (2): 1-21 (2024).
Starting From Scratch: A New Approach to Subnational Public Finance (with David Bell and John Houston). Regional Studies, 55 (4), 617-629 (2021). [PDF][Link]
Networked Innovation and Coalition Formation: The Effect of Group-Based Social Preferences (with Tom Dedeurwaerdere and Paolo Melindi-Ghidi). Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 27 (7): 577-593 (2018). [Link]
Can Fiscal Equalisation Mitigate Tax Competition? Ad Valorem, Residence-Based Taxation in a Federation.
International Tax and Public Finance, 24 (5): 817–853 (2017). [Link]

Externalities and the Erosion of Trust (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli & Lisa Windsteiger). Submitted [PDF][WP]
Can Scapegoating Backfire? The Socio-Political Effects of Blaming Migrants for a Crisis (Michela Boldrini, Pierluigi Conzo & Roberto Zotti). Submitted [PDF]
Are Bad Institutions Always Bad for Society? Trust and Cooperation in Times of Crisis (with Pierluigi Conzo, Gianmarco Daniele & Andrea Martinangeli). Submitted [WP]
Who Cares? Attitudes Towards Redistribution and Fiscal Austerity (with Sarah Brown, Alberto Montagnoli & Mirko Moro). [PDF][WP]
Institutions in the Fast Lane: Democratisation and Union Influence in Mexico (with Hector Gutiérrez-Rufrancos).
No Taxation Without Decentralisation? Accountability, Transparency and Tax Autonomy (with Susana Peralta).
Wind of Change? Experimental Survey Evidence on the COVID-19 Shock and Socio-Political Attitudes in Europe (with Gianmarco Daniele, Andrea Martinangeli, Francesco Passarelli & Lisa Windsteiger). [PDF] [WP] [CEPR][VoxEU][The Conversation]

Who Is to Blame (or Praise)? Perceived Service Quality and Responsibility in Multilevel Government (online survey experiment, with Pierluigi Conzo & Roberto Zotti).
The Evolution of Devolution: Socio-Economic Shocks & Attititudes Towards Devolution and Secession (online survey experiment, with David Bell & Hector Gutiérrez-Rufrancos).
Complexity, Populism & Political Attitudes (with Francesco Passarelli).
Where There Is Smoke, There Is Water: Canals as Proxies of Industrial Past and urban income disparity (with Keiti Kondi and Vincent Vandenberghe)

Het Nut van Dotaties in Gelaagde Staatsvormen: een Vergelijking van Vereveningsmechanismen. (“The Aim of Federal Grants: a Cross-Country Analysis of Equalisation Mechanisms”, with André Decoster).
Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Sociale Zekerheid, 57 (3), 561-595 (2015). [PDF]
De Economische Theorie van het Federalisme: Was de 6de Staatshervorming een Schot in de Roos? (“Fiscal Federalism: Did the Belgian 6th Institutional Reform Hit the Mark?”, with André Decoster).
Tijdschrift voor Bank- en Financiewezen (2), 151-157 (2015). [PDF]

Interregionale financiële stromen in België: update 2000-2023 & prognoses 2024-2028 . (“Interregional Fiscal Flows in Belgium: update 2000-2023 & projections 2024-2028”, with Tom Truyts, 2024). [PDF]
Interregionale financiële stromen in België van 2000 tot 2020. (“Interregional Fiscal Flows in Belgium from 2000 until 2020”, with André Decoster, 2017). [PDF] [Reflectienota]
De Nieuwe Bijzondere Financieringswet van de 6de Staatshervorming: Werden de Beloften Ingelost? (“The New Financing Law of the Belgian 6th Institutional Reform: Were All Promises Kept?”, with André Decoster). Flemosi Discussion Paper Series (28), Department of Economics, KU Leuven (2013). [PDF]