Galletta, Sergio
Education
Ph.D. in Economics (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Biography
Sergio Galletta is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, he was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) at the Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (UB) and the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CISC) in Barcelona, and was employed at ETH Zurich. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Università della Svizzera italiana.
Research Overview
Sergio is interested in research questions at the intersection of political economy and public finance. In particular, he uses methods from applied microeconomics and machine learning to address research questions regarding corruption, political selection, media, direct democracy and fiscal policy.
Publications
Current Working Papers
- “War Violence Exposure and Tax Compliance”, with T. Giommoni
- “Media Slant is Contagious”, with P. Widmer and E. Ash
- “The Effect of Fox News Channel on U.S. Elections: 2000-2020”, with E. Ash, M. Pinna and C. Warshaw
- “Climate Change Skepticism in Conservative Media” E. Ash, A. Boltachka and M. Pinna
Peer-reviewed Publications
- E. Ash, S. Galletta and T. Giommoni “external pageA Machine Learning Approach to Analyze and Support Anti-Corruption Policy”, (conditionally accepted) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- E. Ash and S. Galletta, “external pageHow Cable News Reshaped Local Government”, (forthcoming) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- A. Bochenkova, P. Buonanno and S. Galletta “external pageFighting Violence Against Women: The Role of Female Political Representation”, (2023) Journal of Development Economics
- E. Ash, S. Galletta, D. Hangartner, Y. Margalit, and M. Pinna, “external pageThe Effect of Fox News on Health Behavior During Covid-19”, (2023) Political Analysis
- P. Buonanno, S. Galletta and M. Puca “external pageThe Role of Civic Capital on Vaccination”, (2023) Health Economics
- S. Galletta, E. Ash and D. Chen, “external pageMeasuring Judicial Sentiment: Methods and Application to U.S. Circuit Courts”, (2022) Economica
- S. Galletta and T. Giommoni, “external pageThe Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Income Inequality: Evidence from Italy”, (2022) Review of Economics and Statistics
- S. Galletta, “external pageForm of Government and Voters’ Preferences for Public Spending”, (2021) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
- G. Daniele, S. Galletta and B. Geys, “external pageAbandon Ship? Party Brands and Politicians’ Responses to a Political Scandal” (2020) Journal of Public Economics
- S. Galletta, “external pageDirect Democracy, Partial Decentralization and Voter Information: Evidence from Swiss Municipalities”, (2020) International Tax and Public Finance
- P. Buonanno, S. Galletta and M. Puca “external pageEstimating the Severity of COVID-19: Evidence From the Italian Epicenter” (2020) PLOS One
- F. Cavalcanti, G. Daniele and S. Galletta, “external pagePopularity shocks and political selection”, (2018) Journal of Public Economics
- S. Galletta, “external pageLaw enforcement, municipal budgets and spill-over effects: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Italy”, (2017) Journal of Urban Economics,
- S. Galletta and A. Redonda, “external pageCorporate Flat Tax Reforms and Businesses’ Investment Decisions: Evidence from Switzerland”, (2017) International Tax and Public Finance
- S. Galletta, “external pageOn the determinants of happiness: a Classification And Regression Tree (CART) approach”, (2016) Applied Economics Letters
- S. Galletta and M. Jametti, “external pageHow 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, “external pageHighway to Economic growth? Competition in public works tenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo”, (2015), South African Journal of Economics
Work in Progress
- “Covid Lockdown and Domestic Abuse” with A. Bochenkova and P. Buonanno
- “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