CLEAN CRIME: LAW AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Organized crime and terrorism

The Partisan Politics of Counterterrorism. Reputations, Policy Transparency, and Electoral Outcomes

Livio Di Lonardo

The Economic Costs of Organised Crime: Evidence from Southern Italy

Paolo Pinotti

The Causes and Consequences of Organised Crime: Preliminary Evidence Across Countries.

Paolo Pinotti

Terrorism Financing, Recruitment and Attacks

Nicola Limodio

Strike One To Educate One Hundred: Organized Crime, Political Selection and Politicians’ Ability

Gianmarco Daniele

Partecipazione e concorso esterno nel reato di associazione di tipo mafioso: un confine liquido

Eleonora Montani

Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics

Alberto Alesina, Salvatore Piccolo and Paolo Pinotti

Organised Crime, Institutions and Political Quality. Empirical Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Gianmarco Daniele and Benny Geys

‘Ndrangheta: sostantivo femminile

Eleonora Montani

Mafia, elections and violence against politicians

Gianmarco Daniele and Gemma Dipoppa

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Organized crime

The Partisan Politics of Counterterrorism. Reputations, Policy Transparency, and Electoral Outcomes

Livio Di Lonardo

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The Economic Costs of Organised Crime: Evidence from Southern Italy

Paolo Pinotti

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Elisa Borghi

Elisa Borghi is a Lecturer in Economics at Bocconi University. She teaches microeconomics, macroeconomics and international economics. She received her Ph.D. from Milan State University in 2010. Her research is mainly in the areas of applied economics and international economics. Recently, she has d ...
Gianmarco Daniele

Executive Director and Researcher

Gianmarco Daniele is an Assistant Professor at University of Milan. He obtained his PhD in 2015 at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has then worked as post-doc at the University of Barcelona and at Bocconi University. His research focuses on the ‘dark side’ of politics, including topics related to co ...
Jakub Lonsky

Visiting Scholar (fall 2019)

Jakub Lonsky is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). Jakub received his B.A. from Berea College and M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh in August 2019 and ...
Michela Pozzi

Administrative Assistant
Paolo Pinotti

Scientific Director

Paolo Pinotti is Endowed Chair in the Economic Analysis of Crime in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University, Scientific Director of CLEAN, and Coordinator of Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. He received his Ph. D in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2009 and wor ...
Cleyton Farias

Research Assistant

Cleyton Farias is Data Scientist and Doctoral candidate at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, where he studies how the judicial system could affect social and economic outcomes. Cleyton has worked as a Data Scientist consultant for the public sector, including the Ministry of Citizenship, a ...
Diogo Britto

Researcher

Diogo Britto is a postdoc in economics at Bocconi University. He is also an IZA Research Affiliate. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Milan and a visiting scholar at the University of California - Santa Barbara. He holds a joint PhD degree in Law and Economics at ...
Elena Suragni

Administrative Assistant
Magdalena Domínguez Perez

Visiting student (spring 2020)

Magdalena is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Barcelona School of Economics. She is also a pre-doctoral researcher at the Institut d’Economia de Barcelona, where she is part of the Public Policies Research Program. Her research interests are broadly related to issues such as public economics, ...
Michela Braga

Michela Braga is a Lecturer of the Departement of Economics at Bocconi University since 2003. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from Università Bocconi in 2008, after having completed a Master of Science in Economics in the same University and having obtained her Degree in Economics and Business fro ...
Gabriel Gerhard

Research Assistant

Gabriel was born in Rio de Janeiro and has a BSc degree in computer sciences. He has covered different roles in the IT department of several companies and has years of experience working with RPA, cyber security and IT infrastructure. ...
Andrea Giglio

Research Assistant

Andrea achieved a BSc in Economics at Bocconi University, where he also completed the MSc in Economic and Social Sciences. His research interests include development and public economics, with a particular focus on the economics of migration. ...
Alessio Romarri

Visiting student (fall 2020, expected)

Alessio is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Barcelona (UB) - Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB). He obtained an M.Sc. in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and he worked as a resident researcher for the Luca D'Agliano Study Center. His research interests are ...
Catherine De Vries

Research Fellow

Catherine is a professor in the department of social and political sciences at Bocconi University, a Research Associate at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy and Research Fellow at CLEAN. Her research focuses on some of the key challenges facing the European contine ...
Manoel Gehrke

Researcher

Manoel Gehrke conducts research on political corruption, the role of money in politics, and government responsiveness in developing democracies, particularly in Latin America. His recent work examines how responses by political elites moderate the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies in Brazil ...
Marta Morando

Research Assistant

She achieved a BSc in Economics at Bocconi University, where sh is currently completing the MSc in Economics and Social Sciences. Her research interests focus mainly on applied economics, in particular political and public economics. ...
Diego Zambiasi

Visiting student (fall 2020, expected)

Diego Zambiasi is a PhD candidate in Economics at University College Dublin. He specializes in the economic and social consequences of illicit drug policies. Diego holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Milan, a Masters in Public Policy from the Free University of Bolzano and a Masters in E ...
Francesco Decarolis

Research Fellow

Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, where he teaches and conducts research in industrial organization, with a focus on public procurement, auctions and health economics. Prior to joining Bocconi University, he was a faculty at Boston University and the University ...
Giovanna Marcolongo

Researcher

Giovanna Marcolongo completed her PhD in Economics at Boston University in 2020 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University. She works at the intersection of political economy and development economics, with a particular focus on the economics of crime and corruption. Her recent work stud ...
Livio Di Lonardo

Research Fellow

Livio Di Lonardo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and a Research Affiliate at the Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy. He received his Ph.D. in Politics from New York University in 2017. His resea ...
Marco Le Moglie

Research Fellow

Marco Le Moglie is a post doctoral researcher at Bocconi University since 2016. He holds a Phd in Economics from the University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto. He's an applied micro-economist interested in organized crime, political economy, and more in general public economics. His current re ...
Francesco Raffaelli

Research Assistant

Born in 1996 and raised in Legnano (Milano), he achieved a BSc in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi University, where he is currently pursuing a MSc in Politics and Policy Analysis. His fields of interest are Political Economy and Comparative Politics. ...
Rodrigo Rocha

Research Assistant

Rodrigo is currently completing the BSc in Economics at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, his main areas of expertise are machine learning, web scraping and data science. He is interested in studying public policies and crimes. ...
Maria Santos do Nascimento

Research Assistant

Maria received a BSc in Economics at Federal University of Ceara, Brazil, and a MSc in Economics at Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, where she is currently a PhD Student. Her main research interests are Economics of Education, Crime, Gender, and Machine Learning. She also worked as a Data S ...
Nicola Limodio

Fellow

Nicola Limodio is an assistant professor of finance at Bocconi University. He was awarded a PhD in Economics from LSE in 2017 and a Bsc and Msc in Economics from the University of Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. He consulted for the EBRD and World Bank. Nicola’s research focuses on the role of ...
Antonio Marra

Research Fellow

Antonio Marra is Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting of Bocconi University, and Academic Director of the Master of Science in Accounting, Financial Management, and Control of Bocconi University. He holds visiting positions at Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania, Stern School ...
Simone Valle

Research Assistant

Simone achieved a BSc in Economics and Management at the University of Trento and is currently pursuing a MSc in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi University. His research interests include political economy, urban and regional economics, and development economics. ...
Lucas Warwar

Research Assistant

Lucas achieved a BSc in economics at the University of Campinas and is currently pursuing a MSc in Economics at the Federal University of Pernambuco, both in Brazil. Previously, he worked as a research assistant at the Brazilian Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea). His research interests c ...
Donato Masciandaro

Research Fellow

Central Banking Research Unit Director. Donato Masciandaro is Full Professor of Economics. From 2005 he holds the Chair in Economics of Financial Regulation, at Bocconi University. From 2013 he is Head of the Department of Economics; he was already Department Head from 2008 to 2010. From 2015 he is ...
Eleonora Montani

Fellow

Eleonora Montani is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Legal Studies at Bocconi University. She holds a LL.M. in Psychology and Forensic Psychopathology with specialization on Clinical Criminology from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. Her research interest are in the area of Organized Crime, ...
Nicola Pecchiari

Research Fellow

Nicola Pecchiari, born in Italy in 1966, is Senior Lecturer of Accounting at Bocconi University. He is Chartered Accountant and Registered Auditor in Italy and partner of an audit firm specialized in forensic accounting and fraud investigations. He is author of academic and professional books and ar ...
Michele Polo

Research Fellow

Michele Polo (PhD) is Full Professor in Economics and ENI Chair in Energy Markets at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). His research interests are in Industrial Organization, the Economics of Organized Crime and Political Economics. He has extensively published on International Journals and books on ...
Breno Sampaio

Research Fellow

Breno Sampaio is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco/UFPE, Brazil and Director of the Group for the Economic Evaluation of Public Policies (GAPPE.org). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign/UIUC in ...
Hector Solaz

Research Fellow

Hector is an adjunct professor in the department of social and political sciences at Bocconi University and Research Fellow at CLEAN. Prior to assuming this position he was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Essex, a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and a postdoctoral fellow a ...