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Massimo Bordignon is affiliated with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Finance, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Manager or professional politician? Local fiscal autonomy and the skills of elected officials (2020, Regional Science and Urban Economics)
  • Hardening subnational budget constraints via administrative subordination: The Italian experience of recovery plans in regional health services (2020, Health Economics)
  • Third Time's a Charm? Assessing the Impact of the Third Phase of the EU ETS on CO2 Emissions and Performance (2023, Sustainability)
  • Getting Closer or Falling Apart? Euro Area Countries After the Sovereign Debt Crisis (2022, Comparative Economic Studies)

Their research topics cover multiple areas, notably:

  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Economic Policies and Impacts
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

Massimo Bordignon has frequently published in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Health Economics
  • Regional Science and Urban Economics
  • Sustainability
  • Comparative Economic Studies

The scientist collaborates often with co-authors including:

  • Gilberto Turati
  • Matteo Gamalerio
  • Nicolò Gatti
  • Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato
  • Federico Franzoni

Best Publications

  • In search of yardstick competition: a spatial analysis of Italian municipality property tax setting

    Massimo Bordignon;Floriana Margherita Cerniglia;F. Revelli

  • A fairness approach to income tax evasion

    Massimo Bordignon

  • Optimal regional redistribution under asymmetric information

    Massimo Bordignon;Paolo Manasse;Guido Tabellini

  • Bailing out expectations and public health expenditure

    Massimo Bordignon;Gilberto Turati;Gilberto Turati

  • Reforming Business Taxation: Lessons from Italy?

    Massimo Bordignon;Silvia Giannini;Paolo Panteghini

  • Who Do You Blame in Local Finance? An Analysis of Municipal Financing in Italy

    Massimo Bordignon;Massimo Bordignon;Santino Piazza

  • Yardstick competition in intergovernmental relationships: theory and empirical predictions

    Massimo Bordignon;Floriana Margherita Cerniglia;Federico Revelli

  • Optimal secession rules

    Massimo Bordignon;Massimo Bordignon;Sandro Brusco;Sandro Brusco

  • Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round versus Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule

    Massimo Bordignon;Tommaso Nannicini;Guido Tabellini

  • Subnational Government Bailouts in OECD Countries: Four Case Studies

    Juergen von Hagen;Massimo Bordignon;Bhajan S. Grewal;Per Peterson

  • Fiscal Federalism and Endogenous Lobbies' Formation

    Massimo Bordignon;Luca Colombo;Umberto Galmarini

  • Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections Under Plurality Rule

    Massimo Bordignon;Massimo Bordignon;Guido Tabellini;Guido Tabellini

  • Tax Evasion in Italy

    Massimo Bordignon;Alberto Zanardi

  • Fiscal Federalism and Endogenous Lobbies' Formation

    Massimo Bordignon;Massimo Bordignon;Luca Colombo;Umberto Galmarini

  • On enhanced cooperation

    Massimo Bordignon;Sandro Brusco;Sandro Brusco

  • Fiscal federalism and lobbying

    Massimo Bordignon;Luca Vittorio Angelo Colombo;Umberto Galmarini

  • Subnational Government Bailouts in OECD Countries: Four Case Studies

    Jürgen von Hagen;Massimo Bordignon;Massimo Bordignon;Matz Dahlberg;Matz Dahlberg;Bhajan S. Grewal

  • Problems of Soft Budget Constraints in Intergovernmental Relationships: The Case of Italy

    Massimo Bordignon

  • Problems of Soft Budget Constraints in Intergovernmental Relationships: The Case of Italy

    Massimo Bordignon

  • Corporate taxation in Italy: an analysis of the 1998 reform

    Massimo Bordignon;Silvia Giannini;Paolo Panteghini

  • In Search for Yardstick Competition: Property Tax Rates and Electoral Behavior in Italian Cities

    Massimo Bordignon;Floriana Cerniglia;Federico Revelli

  • La concorrenza fiscale in Europa: evidenze, dibattito, politiche

    Maria Ambrosanio;Massimo Bordignon

  • Problems of soft budget constraints intergovernemental relationships: the case of Italy

    Massimo Bordignon;Massimo Bordignon

  • Normative versus positive theories of revenue assignments in federations

    Flavia Ambrosanio;Massimo Bordignon

  • Who do you blame in local finance? An analysis of municipal financing in Italy.

    Massimo Bordignon;Veronica Grembi;Veronica Grembi;Santino Piazza

  • Economic crisis and fiscal federalism in Italy

    Maria Flavia Ambrosanio;Paolo Balduzzi;Massimo Bordignon

  • Constitutional Reforms, Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Fiscal Flows in Italy

    Maria Ambrosanio;Massimo Bordignon;Floriana Margherita Cerniglia

  • Fiscal federalism and national health service in the Italian system of Governments

    Gilberto Turati;Massimo Bordignon;V. Mapelli

  • Internal stability pacts: the European experience

    Maria Ambrosanio;Massimo Bordignon

  • Plunging into the Sea: Ideological Change, Institutional Environments and Private Entrepreneurship in China.

    Massimo Bordignon;Yanhua Deng;Jian Huang;Jin Yang

  • Replication data for: Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round versus Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule

    Massimo Bordignon;Tommaso Nannicini;Guido Tabellini

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Tabellini
Guido Tabellini Bocconi University
Juergen von Hagen
Juergen von Hagen University of Bonn
Frederick van der Ploeg
Frederick van der Ploeg University of Oxford
Andrea Ichino
Andrea Ichino European University Institute
Francesco Giavazzi
Francesco Giavazzi Bocconi University
Fabiano Schivardi
Fabiano Schivardi Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

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