Amedeo Piolatto

UAB and BSE

PhD, Toulouse School of Economics

Research interests

  • Political Economy
  • Public Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Applied Microeconomic Theory
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Amedeo Piolatto joined the BSE as an Affiliated Professor in 2017. He is an applied-theory economist, interested mainly in the simultaneous interdependence amongst Firms, Policy Makers and Voters/Consumers. In his research, Prof. Piolatto mixes instruments and covers topics typical of Public Economics, Political Economy, Political Science, and Industrial Organization.

Awards, Grants, and Honors

  • 2017: BSE Seed Grant, “Strategic Voting, Transfers and Bailouts in a Federation”

Working Papers

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The Taxing Challenges of the State: Unveiling the Role of Fiscal & Administrative Capacity in Development

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Federica Braccioli,Esteban Muñoz-Sobrado,Amedeo Piolatto, andAntoine Zerbini
BSE Working Paper 1432
March 2024
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Drought-Reliefs and Partisanship

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Federico Boffa,Francisco Cavalcanti,Christian Fons-Rosen, andAmedeo Piolatto
BSE Working Paper 1337
March 2022
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Information vs Competition: How Platform Design Affects Profits and Surplus

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Amedeo PiolattoandFlorian Schuett
BSE Working Paper 1325
March 2022
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Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Support for Safety-Net Expansion

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Amedeo Piolatto,Alex Rees-Jones, andLuca Salvadori
BSE Working Paper 1294
October 2021
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`Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free’: Informational Shocks with Anonymous Online Platforms

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Amedeo Piolatto
BSE Working Paper 1195
July 2020
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Does the Winner Take It All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism

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Gianmarco Daniele,Amedeo Piolatto, andWillem Sas
BSE Working Paper 1157
March 2020
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Transaction-tax Evasion in the Housing Market

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José García-Montalvo,Amedeo Piolatto, andJosep M. Raya
BSE Working Paper 1080
March 2019
Working Paper

Should Different People Have Different Governments?

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Federico Boffa,Amedeo Piolatto, andGiacomo A.M. Ponzetto
BSE Working Paper 656
September 2015

Publications

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Platform design and rent extraction

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Amedeo PiolattoandFlorian Schuett
The Journal of Industrial Economics

March 2025
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The Taxing Challenges of the State: Unveiling the Role of Fiscal and Administrative Capacity in Development

Open Access
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Federica Braccioli, Esteban Muñoz-Sobrado, Amedeo Piolatto, and Antoine Zerbini
CESifo Economic Studies

December 2024
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Drought-Reliefs and Partisanship

Open Access
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Federico Boffa, Francisco Cavalcanti, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Amedeo Piolatto
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

April 2024
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Does the Winner Take It All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism

Open Access
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Gianmarco Daniele, Amedeo Piolatto, and Willem Sas
Regional Studies and Urban Economics

March 2024
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Industry dynamics in digital markets

Open Access
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Federico Boffa, Amedeo Piolatto, Evila Piva, and Florian Schuett
Journal of Industrial and Business Economics

September 2022
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Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Support for Safety-Net Expansion

Open Access
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Amedeo Piolatto, Alex Rees-Jones, and Luca Salvadori
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

September 2022
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Financing public education when agents have retirement concerns

Open Access
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Daniel Montolio, Amedeo Piolatto, and Luca Salvadori
Economic Inquiry

July 2022
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Discretionary transfers: does alignment really matter?

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Federico Boffa, Francisco Cavalcanti, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Amedeo Piolatto

June 2022
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Transaction-tax evasion in the housing market

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José García-Montalvo, Amedeo Piolatto, and Josep M. Raya
Regional Science and Urban Economics

March 2020
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Understanding Tax Evasion: Lessons from the Spanish Housing Market

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José García-Montalvo, Amedeo Piolatto, and Josep M. Raya

November 2019
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Political Centralization and Government Accountability

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Federico Boffa, Amedeo Piolatto, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Quarterly Journal of Economics

January 2017
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