Research
Data quality and integration, spatial statistics and econometrics, and the measurement of social and economic phenomena from unconventional data sources.
Journal articles
- 2025
Arbia, G., Nardelli, V., Salvini, N.
Networks and Spatial Economics
- 2025
Evaluating the Robustness of Spatial Econometric Estimators
Nardelli, V., Salvini, N.
Networks and Spatial Economics
- 2025
Sasso, D., Bacco, L., Palumbo, L., Marcucci, J., Salvini, N., Laureti, T., Vollero, L.
Data in Brief, 112089
- 2025
Business digitalization in Italy: A comprehensive analysis using supplementary fuzzy set approach
Benedetti, I., Crescenzi, F., Laureti, T., Salvini, N.
Big Data Research
- 2024
Del Sarto, S., Gnaldi, M., Salvini, N.
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 101988
Book chapters
- 2025
Food Prices and Household Vulnerability in Italy: Insights from Web-Scraped Data
Benedetti, I., Laureti, T., Salvini, N., Palumbo, L.
Book chapter
Under review & working papers
- 2026
Real-Time Corruption Risk Detection in Public Procurement: An AI-Powered Multi-Agent System for Algorithmic Governance
Salvini, N., Gnaldi, M., Del Sarto, S.
Submitted to Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
- 2025
A composite indicator of corruption risk in public procurement over emergencies
Del Sarto, S., Gnaldi, M., Salvini, N.
Under review
- 2025
Commuting-related transport poverty and equitable mobility policy: A framework combining affordability, time burdens and spatial inequalities
Salvini, N., Secondi, L., Laureti, T.
Under review
- 2025
How Many Significant LISA?
Arbia, G., Nardelli, V., Salvini, N.
Working paper
- 2026
Honey, I shrank the spatial econometric coefficients! SAR-LASSO shrinkage estimation for spatial econometric models
Arbia, G., Della Ratta, L., Nardelli, V., Salvini, N.
Working paper
- 2024
New accessibility measures based on unconventional big data sources
Arbia, G., Nardelli, V., Salvini, N., Valentini, I.
arXiv:2401.13370
Software
- 2026overleaf-mcp
MCP server for Overleaf: reading, editing and compiling LaTeX projects without the paid Git-integration plan.
- 2026mcp-moodle-teacher
MCP server for the teacher's side of Moodle: enrolments, submissions, grading with feedback, announcements.
- 2026mcp-blackboard-ucsc
MCP server built on the public REST API of Blackboard Learn Ultra.
- 2025directa-api-python
Python client for the Directa APIs: order placement and tick-by-tick historical data.
Awards
- 2026
Post-Doctoral Scholarship “Roberto Camagni” (3rd Edition)
Research scholarship in regional science, up to €15,000. AISRe — Italian Regional Science Association.
- 2023
Third Place, Stats Under the Stars 2023 (SUS23)
€500 award. Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona.
- 2019
18th place, Stats Under the Stars 2019 (SUS19)
Bocconi University, Milan.
Editorial activity
Reviewer for Computational Statistics, Journal of Spatial Econometrics, Quality and Quantity, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Applied Economics and Research in Economics.
Appointments
- 2026 – 2029
Member of the Advisory Board (Comitato di Indirizzo), Ph.D. Programme in Health Systems and Service Research, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome.
- 2025
Organising committee, Spatial Econometrics Association conference (SEA25), Rabat.