Output Gap, Recessions and Fiscal Discretion (with Fabrizio Coricelli) [Presentation at the CASE Conference: The Return of History. From Consensus to Crisis, Warsaw, 20 November, 2009]
Labor Supply Elasticities: Can Micro Be Misleading for Macro? (with Giulio Zanella, August 2009 ) [revised]
Government Spending for Merit Goods:_Macroeconomic Implications (2005 Asset Lecture, University of Crete, February 2007)
Government Spending for Merit Goods:_Macroeconomic Implications (presentation, ASSET Lecture, Crete, October 2005)
Fiscal Risk Indicators for the EMU Countries (presentation, August 2005)
Public Goods, Merit Goods and the Relation Between Private and Government Consumption, with Tryphon Kollintzas (published in "European Economic Review", 48, 2004, 1367-98)
Inventory Changes and the Closing of Econometric Models, (published in "International Journal of Production Economics", 2003, 81-82: 75-84)
Barriere alla crescita e differenze di reddito tra paesi, (in Italian: Review of Parente & Prescott, Barriers to Riches), May 2003 (published in "Rivista di Politica Economica", 3-4, 2003)
The Market Value of Italian Government Debt, 1970-96, 2002 (with Lorenzo Pecchi and Giorgio Valente: published in "Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia", 1, 1-28)
Più Incompleto che Stupido: Osservazioni e Proposte sul Patto di Stabilità e Crescita, 2002, [in Italian: The SGP is More Incomplete Than Stupid], "Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia Politica # 371, University of Siena (published also in ISCONA, Finanza Pubblica e Contabilità Nazionale, Rome, 2004, 305-16).
Distortionary Taxation and Labour Market Performance, 2001 (with Flavio Padrini: published in "Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics", 2, 173-96)
Government Debt, Taxes and Growth, mimeo, April 2000 (published in "Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice", 2000, 2/3:119-30)
Stylized Facts of Government Finance in the G-7, 1997, IMF Research Department Working Paper # 97/142