Francesco Drago | CSEF : Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance

Full Professor

University of Catania

Francesco Drago is Professor in Economics at the University of Catania. His research interests are in applied microeconometrics in the fields of the economics of crime and political economy.

Email: francesco.drago@unict.it
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Department of Economics Corso Italia,

55 95129 Catania (Italy)

CSEF working papers

Francesca Calamunci and Francesco Drago
#556 - The Economic Impact of Organized Crime Infiltration in the Legal Economy: Evidence from the Judicial Administration of Organized Crime Firms
Francesco Drago, Friederike Mengel and Christian Traxler
#419 - Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Francesco Drago and Roberto Galbiati
#270 - Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment

Recent publications

Marianna Belloc, Francesco Drago, Mattia Fochesato, and Roberto Galbiati, Multigenerational Transmission of Wealth: Florence, 1403–1480,
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, vol. 16(2), pp. 99-129 [link]
Drago F., R. Galbiati and F. Sobbrio, The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,
Forthcoming in: Journal of the European Economic Association
Drago F., F. Mengel and C. Traxler , Compliance Behavior in Networks: Evidence from a Field Experiment,
Forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Belloc M., F. Drago and R. Galbiati, Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities,
Forthcoming in: the Quarterly Journal of Economics