Current Position
- Associate professor in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Messina (since year 2019)

Education:
-Ph.D. in Economics, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, 2008
-Visiting Student, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, UK, 2004
-MSc in Economics and Quantitative Methods, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, 2003
-Bachelor (4 years) in Political Science, Università di Messina, 2002

Research Interests
Economics of Crime and Corruption, Behavioral and Experimental economics, Regional Economics

Selected Publications

2022 – Andreatta, D, Favarin, S, Lisciandra, M, Millemaci, E (2022). Digging into waste: an analysis of waste crime in the Italian provinces. REGIONAL STUDIES, p. 1-13, ISSN: 0034-3404, doi: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2135697

2021 - "A corruption risk indicator for public procurement". EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102141

2021 - "The influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students". PLOS ONE, 16(11). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258586

2017 - "The Economic Effect of Corruption in Italy: A Regional Panel Analysis" (with M. Lisciandra). REGIONAL STUDIES, vol. 51, Issue 9, pp. 1387-1398 (Published online: 12 Jul 2016). Doi: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1184244