Tommaso Giommoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 5869461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tommaso Giommoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tommaso |
| FAMILY NAME | Giommoni |
| SIGNATURE | GIOMMONI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4196-8363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Taxation with a Grain of Salt: The Long-Term Effect of Extractive Fiscal Institutions on Development
This paper exploits the historical system of salt taxation in France to study the impact of extractive taxes on long-term economic development. Salt tax rates exhibited significant spatial variation, leading to discontinuous jumps in salt prices. Adopting a spatial regressiondiscontinuity design, we estimate the causal effect of the tax using original historical data. We extract geo-localized individual-level information on almost 70 million indi…
Corruption and extremism
This paper shows that corruption generates extremism, but mainly on the opposition side. While corruption hurts all citizens, only voters on the minority side may desire to switch to a more extreme representative when they perceive a more corrupt political system. In our model, campaigning on a corruption scandal against the incumbent gives a higher winningprobability for the opposition politician but simultaneously reduces expected future rents …
Fiscal Rules, Corruption, and Electoral Accountability
The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Income Inequality: Evidence from Italy
We estimate the effect of the 1918 influenza pandemic on income inequality in Italian municipalities. Our identification strategy exploits the exogenous diffusion of influenza across municipalities due to the presence of infected soldiers on leave from World War I operations. The measures of income inequality come from newly digitized historical administrative records on taxpayer incomes. We show that in the short and medium run, income inequalit…
Exposure to corruption and political participation: Evidence from Italian municipalities
This paper aims to study the effects of exposure to corruption on all the aspects of political participation. Focusing on Italian municipalities in the period 1999–2014, we generate a daily and local measure of exposure to corruption, screening newspaper articles of the main Italian press agency. We concentrate on local elections and, in an event-study analysis, we find three main results. First, corruption exposure affects citizens' participatio…
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Exposure to corruption and political participation: Evidence from Italian municipalities
This paper aims to study the effects of exposure to corruption on all the aspects of political participation. Focusing on Italian municipalities in the period 1999–2014, we generate a daily and local measure of exposure to corruption, screening newspaper articles of the main Italian press agency. We concentrate on local elections and, in an event-study analysis, we find three main results. First, corruption exposure affects citizens' participatio…
The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Income Inequality: Evidence from Italy
We estimate the effect of the 1918 influenza pandemic on income inequality in Italian municipalities. Our identification strategy exploits the exogenous diffusion of influenza across municipalities due to the presence of infected soldiers on leave from World War I operations. The measures of income inequality come from newly digitized historical administrative records on taxpayer incomes. We show that in the short and medium run, income inequalit…
Fiscal Rules, Corruption, and Electoral Accountability
Taxation with a Grain of Salt: The Long-Term Effect of Extractive Fiscal Institutions on Development
This paper exploits the historical system of salt taxation in France to study the impact of extractive taxes on long-term economic development. Salt tax rates exhibited significant spatial variation, leading to discontinuous jumps in salt prices. Adopting a spatial regressiondiscontinuity design, we estimate the causal effect of the tax using original historical data. We extract geo-localized individual-level information on almost 70 million indi…
Corruption and extremism
This paper shows that corruption generates extremism, but mainly on the opposition side. While corruption hurts all citizens, only voters on the minority side may desire to switch to a more extreme representative when they perceive a more corrupt political system. In our model, campaigning on a corruption scandal against the incumbent gives a higher winningprobability for the opposition politician but simultaneously reduces expected future rents …
Economics (4 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Fiscal policy (2 works) · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues (2 works) · Language change (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (2 works)