Projects
Economic Sustainability of Lazio Municipalities — Territorial Public Accounts (CPT)
Ongoing · 2025–2026Twelve-month research project on the economic sustainability of municipalities in the Lazio region, framed within the Conti Pubblici Territoriali (Territorial Public Accounts) system. Activities include the update, integration and validation of Lazio CPT data; merging CPT and demographic sources into a unified dataset; estimating the spending theoretically required to guarantee constitutionally protected rights (health, education, mobility); building municipal-level sustainability indicators based on the balance between revenue effectively collected, expenditure effectively incurred and the spending needed; constructing measures of territorial cohesion and divergence within Lazio; and producing forecasting scenarios that combine official ISTAT demographic projections with constitutional-reform and public-investment hypotheses. Activities are partly conducted on-site at the Nucleo CPT Lazio premises in Rome.
THEMIA — THE Mood of Infrastructure’s Accessibility
Concluded · 2024–2025Assesses infrastructural and territorial accessibility, addressing data challenges for both ex-ante and ex-post evaluations. The project combines real-time activity data from private platforms (Google, Meta, Telegram, X, LinkedIn) with traditional demographic and territorial sources. Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics generate innovative accessibility indicators and predictive models for socio-economic outcomes; user feedback from social networks is integrated into the analysis. Results are released as interactive maps designed for policymakers, practitioners, and citizens, providing a thorough and timely assessment of infrastructure-accessibility policies at the national level in Italy with granular territorial detail.
Reconciling Efficiency and Equity in the Italian Healthcare System
Concluded · 2023–2025PRIN 2022 project evaluating the performance of the Italian regional healthcare system over the past two decades along the dimensions of efficiency and equity. Three focus areas: (1) hospital efficiency in the wake of the territorial reorganisation, distinguishing public and private providers and accounting for regional heterogeneity in population needs; (2) equity in access to hospital services through analysis of patient mobility across regions; (3) regional healthcare-expenditure allocation, comparing the central-level method currently in use with a needs-based alternative. The project applies state-of-the-art econometric methods and new microeconomics tools to inform the debate on decentralised healthcare.
BACK IN TOWN — Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue for Youth Employment
Concluded · 2024–2025EU-funded research collaboration on the role of industrial relations and social dialogue in supporting young people's employment and social inclusion at an urban level. The project covered analysis of the European labour market, of European strategies for youth employment and social inclusion, the production of evidence-based research reports, and the design and creation of an observatory on collective bargaining for young workers.
Climate Security Observatory
Concluded · 2021–2024Scientific support for the development of a permanent observatory on the climate crisis in Africa, hosted by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). The long-term goal is to migrate, onto a dynamic and policymaker-facing platform, the body of economic research conducted by the organisation on climate-change issues, making it operationally consultable for evidence-based decision-making.