Francesco Sobbrio is a Professor of Economics at Tor Vergata University of Rome and a CESifo Research Fellow. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Before joining Tor Vergata he was an associate professor at Luiss University, an Assistant Professor at Catholic University of Milan and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. His research focuses on political economics and on the economics of media.
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Politicians’ response to fact-checking: Evidence from a randomised experiment with a leading fact-checking company
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- Politics and economics
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Inactive workers and mortality due to Covid-19: Evidence from the Italian lockdown
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- COVID-19
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The political cost of being soft on crime and voters’ response to public policies
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- Politics and economics
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War of the waves: Media and resistance against authoritarian regimes
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- Economic history 
- Politics and economics
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Politics 2.0: Short-run and long-run effects of broadband internet on political participation
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- Frontiers of economic research 
- Politics and economics