I am an Economist working as a Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich. I am interested in issues in political economy and public finance. In particular, I use methods from applied microeconomics and machine learning to address research questions regarding corruption, political selection, media, direct democracy and fiscal policy. (Here my CV)
What’s new?
- I received project funding from the SNSF to work on “Predictive Algorithms for Public Policy and Economic Research” !
- 15th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime (TWEC) at ETH Zurich, Oct 4th-5th 2024 (CALL)
- 2nd AI+Economics Workshop in Zurich, Sept 29th-30th 2023 (FINAL PROGRAM, CALL)
Current Working Papers
- “War Violence Exposure and Tax Compliance”, with T. Giommoni
Revision Requested
- “Media Slant is Contagious”, with P. Widmer and E. Ash, Revise & Resubmit at The Economic Journal
- “The Effect of Fox News Channel on U.S. Elections: 2000-2020”, with E. Ash, M. Pinna and C. Warshaw, Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Public Economics
- “Media Bias and Climate Change Skepticism”, with E. Ash, A. Boltachka and M. Pinna, Revise & Resubmit at Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Peer-reviewed Publications
- E. Ash, S. Galletta and T. Giommoni “A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy”, (conditionally accepted) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- A. Bochenkova, P. Buonanno and S. Galletta “Fighting Violence Against Women: The Role of Female Political Representation”, (2023) Journal of Development Economics
- E. Ash and S. Galletta, “How Cable News Reshaped Local Government”, (2023) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- P. Buonanno, S. Galletta and M. Puca “The Role of Civic Capital on Vaccination”, (2023) Health Economics
- E. Ash, S. Galletta, D. Hangartner, Y. Margalit, and M. Pinna, “The Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior During Covid-19”, (2023) Political Analysis
- S. Galletta and T. Giommoni, “The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Income Inequality: Evidence from Italy”, (2022) Review of Economics and Statistics
- E. Ash, D. Chen and S. Galletta,, “Measuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to U.S. Circuit Courts”, (2022) Economica
- S. Galletta, “Form of Government and Voters’ Preferences for Public Spending”, (2021) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
- G. Daniele, S. Galletta and B. Geys, “Abandon Ship? Party Brands and Politicians’ Responses to a Political Scandal” (2020) Journal of Public Economics
- S. Galletta, “Direct Democracy, Partial Decentralization and Voter Information: Evidence from Swiss Municipalities”, (2020) International Tax and Public Finance
- P. Buonanno, S. Galletta and M. Puca “Estimating the Severity of COVID-19: Evidence From the Italian Epicenter” (2020) PLOS One
- F. Cavalcanti, G. Daniele and S. Galletta, “Popularity shocks and political selection”, (2018) Journal of Public Economics
- S. Galletta, “Law enforcement, municipal budgets and spill-over effects: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Italy”, (2017) Journal of Urban Economics,
- S. Galletta and A. Redonda, “Corporate Flat Tax Reforms and Businesses’ Investment Decisions: Evidence from Switzerland”, (2017) International Tax and Public Finance
- S. Galletta, “On the determinants of happiness: a Classification And Regression Tree (CART) approach”, (2016) Applied Economics Letters
- S. Galletta and M. Jametti, “How to Tame Two Leviathans? Revisiting the effect of direct democracy on local public expenditure in a federation”, (2015) European Journal of Political Economy
- S. Galletta, M. Jametti, and A. Redonda, “Highway to Economic growth? Competition in public works tenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo”, (2015), South African Journal of Economics
Working in Progress
- “Covid Lockdowns and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Italy” with A. Bochenkova, P. Buonanno and C. Deiana
- “Taxing Cross-border Commuters” with E. Di Carlo and E. Rubolino
- “Fiscal Policy Polarization” with E. Ash
- “Fiscal Budgets as High-Dimensional Data: An Application to Italian Municipalities” with P. Bello and C. Marconi
- “One Person, One Vote: Assessing the Impact of the 17th Amendment on Senator Speeches and Representation” with A. Amati and E. Ash
Workshops:
2nd AI+Economics Workshop in Zurich, Sept 29th-30th 2023 (FINAL PROGRAM, CALL)
1st AI+Economics Workshop in Zurich, Oct 14th-15th 2022 (FINAL PROGRAM, TO REGISTER, CALL)