Marco Di Cataldo
Publications
Working papers
2026
Cohesion or collusion? EU funds in places with corrupt local institution
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (with E. Renzullo & A. Rodríguez-Pose)
2025
EU money and mayors: does Cohesion Policy affect local electoral outcome?
Journal of Economic Geography, 25(5): 789–808. (with E. Renzullo)
2024
Localized effects of confiscated and re-allocated real estate mafia assets
Journal of Economic Geography, 24(2): 219-240. (with F. Boeri & E. Pietrostefani)
2023
2022
Organized crime, captured politicians, and the allocation of public resources
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 38 (3): 774-839. (with N. Mastrorocco)
How 'smart' are Smart Specialisation strategies?
Journal of Common Market Studies, 60 (5): 1272-1298. (with V. Monastiriotis & A. Rodriguez-Pose)
2021
2020
It's not about the money. EU funds, local opportunities, and Euroscepticism
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 84, 103556. (with R. Crescenzi & M. Giua)
Regional needs, regional targeting and regional growth: an assessment of the impact of EU funds in UK regions
Regional Studies, 54 (1): 35-47. (with V. Monastiriotis)
2018
Internationalised at localistic at home: the ‘split’ Europeanisation behind Brexit
Papers in Regional Science, 97(1): 117-132. (with R. Crescenzi & A. Faggian)
2017
2016
2015
Justice Efficiency and Crime Deterrence
(with D. Denti)
Blogs, media, reports, book chapters
How European funds shape local elections
LSE EUROPP Blog on 1st December 2025
Il circolo vizioso della razionalizzazione dei servizi pubblici: a farne le spese sono le zone più periferiche e già in difficoltà
GRINS-Foundation News on 5th January 2025
Il futuro della scuola con 110.000 studenti in meno all’anno: allarme per i piccoli centri
Domani on 1st October 2024
The Impact of Smart Specialization Strategies in Pomorskie
The World Bank Group
Dinamiche demografiche e riduzione dei servizi pubblici: un rafforzamento delle diseguaglianze territoriali.
In: ‘Rapporto Ca’ Foscari sui comuni 2023‘, Castelvecchi, 2023. (with G. Romani and G. V. Sonzongno)
Stronger coordination among local governments can improve the performance of US cities and communities
LSE USAPP Blog on 15th March 2023
Dai beni confiscati alla rigenerazione urbana
lavoce.info on 27th September 2022
How ‘smart’ are smart specialization strategies?
Industrial Analytics Platform UNIDO.org Blog, August 2022
Nei comuni infiltrati dalle mafie boom di spesa per edilizia e rifiuti
cfnews, Ca’ Foscari University on 7th Dec 2021
Young Scholar Interview: Marco Di Cataldo
RSAI Newsletter, November 2021
‘Levelling up’ in the UK: what works across the continent?
Bennet Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge University on 25th Nov 2021
Criticità finanziaria e scioglimento dei consigli comunali per infiltrazione mafiosa: un approccio quantitativo.
In: 'Rapporto Ca’ Foscari sui comuni 2020', Castelvecchi, 2020. (with G. Romani)
Money can’t buy love for Europe but success certainly can
LSE Brexit Blog on 12th November 2019
Le agenzie di promozione degli investimenti diretti esteri in Italia e in Europa: funzionano davvero? Dove?
In: 'Rapporto ICE 2018 – 2019'. Italian Ministry of Economic Development, 2019. (with R. Crescenzi and M. Giua)
Public Policies for Economic Development in Europe: The Conditioning Role of Local Government Institutions.
In: Lattarulo et al. ‘Le regioni d'Europa tra identità locali, nuove comunità e disparità territoriali’, Franco Angeli, 2019.
What should replace EU regional development funds after Brexit?
LSE Brexit Blog on 25th March 2019
Governments strive to attract investment, but so far there’s no evidence of what works
LSE Business Review on 22nd February 2019
How can policymakers attract global investments?
VoxEU CEPR’s Policy Portal February 2019
What policies work for FDI?
LSE GILD – Global Investment & Local Development on 21st February 2019
Institutions and the Thirst for ‘Prestige’ Transport Infrastructure.
What’s the future of cohesion policy post 2020?
COHESIFY Blog on 25 October 2017
For Europe, Infrastructure Is the Wrong Priority
Bloomberg View on 24 May 2017
The impact of EU development funds in poorer UK regions and the prospect of Brexit.
LSE SERC Blog on 17 April 2017
Government quality and the economic returns of transport infrastructure investment.
VoxEU CEPR’s Policy Portal on 11 April 2017
Drivers of employment generation and social inclusion in the EU.
VoxEU CEPR’s Policy Portal on 6 April 2017
Improving transport infrastructure is not a silver bullet for boosting growth.
LSE EUROPP – European Politics and Policy on 6 March 2017
Poorer regions have benefited from EU Cohesion Policy and would lose out from Brexit.
LSE EUROPP – European Politics and Policy on 20 June 2016
The Role of Government Institutions for Smart Specialisation and Regional Development.
S3 Policy Brief Series 04/2014, European Commission, Feb 2014
EU Funds and Local Growth.
Report commissioned by the UK Local Government Association (LGA) in 2013