Research

Publications

• Catola, M., Campigotto, N., Guarnieri, P., D’Alessandro, S., Spadoni, L.
  “Curbing Energy Consumption through Voluntary Quotas: Experimental Evidence”.
  Energy Economics, 2025. Link

• Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S., Guarnieri, P., Pizziol, V.
  “Personal and social norms in a multilevel public goods experiment”.
  Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2024. Link

• Catola, M., Guarnieri, P., Rapallini, C., Pizziol, V.
  “Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment”.
  Journal of Comparative Economics, 2024. Link

• Catola, M., Marcon, L., Guarnieri, P., Spadoni, L.
  “Real-effort in the Multilevel Public Goods Game”.
  The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2024. Link

• Catola, M., Leoni, S.
  “Pollution Abatement and Lobbying in a Cournot Game: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach”.
  Computational Economics, 2023. Link

• Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S., Guarnieri, P., Pizziol, V.
  “Multilevel Public Goods Game: Levelling up, Substitution and Crowding-in Effects”.
  Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023. Link

• Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S., Guarnieri, P., Pizziol, V.
  “Personal norms in the online public good game”.
  Economics Letters, 2021. Link

• Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S.
  “Market competition, lobbying influence and environmental externalities”.
  European Journal of Political Economy, 2020. Link

Working Papers

• Catola, M., Leoni, S.
  “Green Transition and Environmental Policy in Imperfectly Competitive Markets: Insights from Agent-Based Modelling”.
  Under review (Energy Economics). PDF

• Catola, M., Caravaggio, A., Leoni, S.
  “Educational choices under income expectation and peer pressure”.
  Revise & resubmit (Mathematical Social Sciences). PDF

• Catola, M., Campigotto, N., Di Stefano, T., Cieplinski, A., Guarnieri, P., D’Alessandro, S., Heydenreich, T.
  “Scenario discovery for a just low-carbon transition”.
  Revise & resubmit (Ecological Economics). PDF

• Catola, M.
  “Partial decentralisation and inter-governmental electoral competition in local public good provision”.
  Discussion Paper, University of Pisa, 2019. PDF

• Catola, M.
  “Contribution and bribe: lobbying in presence of incumbent and bureaucrat”.
  Discussion Paper, University of Pisa, 2019. PDF

Work in Progress (available upon request)

• Catola, M., Vergari, C.
  “Lobbying as entry barrier”.

• Catola, M., Francés-Gómez, P., Guarnieri, P., D’Alessandro, S., Marcon, L., Spadoni, L.
  “Unequal Endowments in a Multilevel Public Goods Game”.

• Catola, M., Chapovski, P., Jannach, D., Milano, S., Giannetti, C., Vergari, C., Meccheri, N.
  “Ethical AI in Recommendations: A Public Good Dilemma”.

• Catola, M., Guarnieri, P., Piga, A., Pinna, L., D’Alessandro, S.
  “Opinion Dynamics ABM with Inequality Aversion”.

Book Chapters

• Catola, M., D’Alessandro, S.
  “Partial decentralisation, political alignment and electoral competition across levels of government”.
  In Institutions, Imperfect Markets and Policy Issues. Pisa University Press, 2021.