Antonio Ciccone, Ph.D.

Latest Research

• The Long-Run Effects of Immigration: Evidence Across a Barrier to Refugee Settlement, with Jan Nimczik, December 2023, revised & extended.  The refugees this paper is about are people who were displaced westwards after WWII and who settled in West Germany. In the context of WWII, they are sometimes also referred to as expellees or displaced persons.
• Felix Auerbach and Zipf’s (1941) law for cities. Surprisingly, Felix Auerbach’s 1913 pioneering article on the distribution of city sizes in Germany, the UK, the US, and other countries as well as regions had never been translated to English. My translation with a brief introduction is published in EPB: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2023. See also the EPB editorial of Michael Batty. Diego Rybski and I also wrote a brief history of science article on Auerbach, Zipf, and Lotka. Lotka (1925), building on Auerbach, introduced the modern representation of the Auerbach-Lotka-Zipf law for cities. Our article has been published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 2023. In writing the article, Diego and I found out about the very early empirical work of Saibante (1928). Like Auerbach, Saibante also looks at different countries and regions, but he used the methodological approach of Lotka. This makes Saibante the pioneer of modern empirical work on the Auerbach-Lotka-Zipf law for cities.
• Estimating Cross-Industry Cross-Country Interaction Models using Benchmark Industry Characteristics, with Elias Papaioannou, June 2022, Online Appendix. Published in The Economic Journal. Replication files and (standalone) matlab estimation program.
• Rainfall, Agricultural Output, and Persistent Democratization, with  Adilzhan Ismailov, December 2021, Supplementary Appendix. Readme and Access to a Folder with Replication Codes&Data. Economica.
• The Effect of WWI Military Casualties on the Population Distribution in Germany, May 2021, Supplementary Appendix (The first version of this paper, circulated in April, was entitled Gibrat's Law for Cities: Evidence from WWI Casualties). NBER Summer Institute 2021 presentation slides.
• Civil War and Commodity Price Shocks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond, June 2020, Online Appendix Tables.
• Democratic Tipping Points, with Adilzhan Ismailov, May 2020.
• Voxeu article on Democratic Tipping Points.
• International Commodity Prices and Civil War Outbreak: New Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond, July 2019,  Readme with Access to a Folder with Replication Codes&Data. Codes Allow for Choosing Additional Specifications Easily. Direct Access to the Folder
  Appendix A: Dealing with Mismeasured Commodity Export Shares, Appendix B: Appendix Figures and Tables.

Main Publications

• Estimating Cross-Industry Cross-Country Interaction Models using Benchmark Industry Characteristics, with Elias Papaioannou, June 2022, Online Appendix. Published in The Economic Journal. Replication files and (standalone) matlab estimation program.
• Rainfall, Agricultural Output, and Persistent Democratization, with  Adilzhan Ismailov, December 2021, Supplementary Appendix. Readme and Access to a Folder with Replication Codes&Data. Economica.
• The Human Capital Stock: A Generalized Approach: Comment, (with Francesco Caselli), American Economic Review, 109 (3), 2019, 1155-1174.
• Agricultural Risk and the Spread of Religious Communities, (with Philipp Ager), Journal of the European Economic Association, 16 (4), 2018, pp. 1021-68. Supplementary Appendix.
• One Effect to Rule them All? A Comment on Climate and Conflict, (with 25 co-authors), Climatic Change, 127, (3–4), 2014, 391–397.
• The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound, (with F. Caselli), Journal of Development Economics, 104, 2013, 199–211.
• Estimating Effect of Transitory Economic Shocks on Civil Conflict, Review of Economics and Institutions, 4 (2), 2013, 1–14.
• Oil Price Shocks, Income, and Democracy, (with M. Brückner and A. Tesei), Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (2), 2012, 389–399.
• Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: A Comment, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3 (4), 2011, 215–227 (Web Appendix).
• Rain and the Democratic Window of Opportunity, (with M. Brückner), Econometrica, 79 (3), 2011, 923–947.
• Determinants of Economic Growth: Will Data Tell?, (with M. Jarocinski), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2 (4), 2010, 222–246 (Web Appendices A and B, C, D).
• International Commodity Prices, Growth, and Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa, (with M. Brückner), The Economic Journal, 120 (544), 2010, 519–534.
• Human Capital, the Structure of Production, and Growth, (with E. Papaioannou), Review of Economics and Statistics, 91 (1), 2009, 66–82.
• Linkages, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics,  2008.
• Urban Production Externalities, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics,  2008.
• Red Tape and Delayed Entry, (with E. Papaioannou), Journal of European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 5 (2–3), 2007, 444–458.
• Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with Applications, (with G. Peri), Review of Economic Studies, 73 (2), 2006, 381–412.
• Long-run Substitutability Between More and Less Educated Workers: Evidence from US States 1950-1990, (with G. Peri), Review of Economics and Statistics, 87 (4), 2005, 652–663.
• The Private and Social Return to Schooling in Italy, (with F. Cingano and P. Cipollone), Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, December 2004.
• On Payoff Heterogeneity in Games with Strategic Complementarities, (with J. Costain), Oxford Economic Papers, 56 (4), 2004, 701–713.
• Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty: Comment, American Economic Review, 94 (3), 2004, 785–795.
• Trade and Productivity, (with F. Alcala), Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXIX (2), 2004, 613–646.
• Human Capital in a Global and Knowledge-Based Economy, (with A. de la Fuente), Report, European Comission, DG Employment and Social Affairs, 2002.
• Input Chains and Industrialization, Review of Economic Studies, 69 (3), 2002, 565–587.
• Agglomeration Effects in Europe, European Economic Review, 46 (2), 2002, 213–227.
• Business cycles and investment in human capital: international evidence on higher education: A comment, Science Direct, Carnegie Special Issue, Volume 52, June 2000, 257–262.
• Efficiency and Equilibrium with Dynamic Increasing Aggregate Returns due to Demand Complementarities, (with K. Matsuyama, Econometrica, 67 (3), 1999, 499–525.
• Start-up Costs and Pecuniary Externalities as Barriers to Economic Development, (with K. Matsuyama), Journal of Development Economics, 49 (1), 1996, 33–59.
• Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity, (with R. Hall), American Economic Review, 86 (1), 1996, 54–70.