3 papers
econ.EM2026
Aggregation Bias in Proxy Measurement: Nighttime Lights and Local Economic Activity
Davide Fiaschi, Angela Parenti, Cristiano Ricci
This paper studies when high-resolution signals aggregated to administrative units can recover unobserved local economic activity. We develop a reverse-regression framework for sig…
econ.GN2024
The spatial evolution of economic activities: from theory to estimation
Davide Fiaschi, Angela Parenti, Cristiano Ricci
This paper studies the evolution of economic activities using a continuous time-space aggregation-diffusion model, which encompasses competing effects of agglomeration and congesti…
econ.GN2023
Unveiling spatial patterns of population in Italian municipalities
Davide Fiaschi, Angela Parenti, Cristiano Ricci
We study the evolution of population density across Italian municipalities on the based of their trajectories in the Moran space. We find evidence of spatial dynamical patterns of…