WORKING PAPERS
"Labor Protection, Debt and Access to Finance" with Elena Simintzi and Vikrant Vig.
"Information Induced Liquidity Crises" with Vito Gala.
"Competition for Managers, Corporate Governance and Incentive Compensation" with Viral Acharya and Marc Gabarro.
"Politics, Investor Protection and Competition" with Enrico Perotti.
"Seeking Alpha: Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent" with Viral Acharya and Marco Pagano.
"The Value of Controlling Blockholders during the Global Financial Crisis" with Karl Lins and Hannes Wagner.
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
"Corporate Pension Plans as Takeover Deterrents" with Joao Cocco, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
"Securitization, Disclosure and Liquidity" with Marco Pagano, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming. Winner of LECG Prize for Best Overall Conference Paper at EFA 2009.
"The Life-Cycle of Family Ownership" with Julian Franks, Colin Mayer and Hannes Wagner, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.
"Corporate Governance Externalities" with Viral Acharya, Review of Finance, 2010, 14, 1-33. Winner of the 2008 ECGI Best Paper Competition.
"Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe” with Luca Enriques, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007, vol. 21, 117-140.
"Shareholder Protection, Stock Market Development, and Politics" with Marco Pagano, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, vol. 4, 315-341.
"The Political Economy of Corporate Governance" with Marco Pagano, American Economic Review, 2005, 95, 1005-1030.
"Managers, Workers, and Corporate Control" with Marco Pagano, Journal of Finance, 2005, 60, 843-870. Nominated for the 2005 Brattle Prize. Winner of Egon Zehnder International Prize (Best paper in ECGI working paper series 2004).
"Cross-Country Determinants of Mergers and Acquisitions" with Stefano Rossi, Journal of Financial Economics, 2004, 74, 277-304. Reprinted in: Stijn Claessens and Luc Leaven eds, A Reader in International Corporate Finance, World Bank Press, 2006, 231-257.
"Governance with Poor Investor Protection: Evidence from Top Executive Turnover in Italy" Journal of Financial Economics, 2002, 64, 61-90.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
"Credit Ratings Failures and Policy Options" with Marco Pagano, Economic Policy, 2010, 62, 401-431.
"The Corporate Governance of Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Evidence from the United Kingdom" with Joao Cocco, Financial Analysts Journal, 2007, vol. 63, 70-83.
"The Political Economy of Finance" with Marco Pagano, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2001, 17, 502-519.
"The governance motive in cross-border mergers and acquisitions" with Stefano Rossi, in: Greg Gregoriou and Luc Renneboog Eds., Corporate Governance and Regulatory Impact on Mergers and Acquisitions, 2007, Elsevier Finance, Academic Press, 43-70.
"The History of Corporate Ownership in Italy" with Alexander Aganin, in: Randall K. Morck Ed., The History of Corporate Governance Around the World, University of Chicago Press, 2005, 325-361.
"The Eclipse of the U.S. Tire Industry" with Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales, in: Steven Kaplan Ed., Merger and Productivity, University of Chicago Press, 2000, 51-86.