Dr. Ennio Piano

Assistant Professor

Dr. Ennio Piano
+1 615 898-5749
Room N329, Business & Aerospace Building (BAS)

Biography

I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at Middle Tennessee State University and a faculty member at the Political Economy Research Institute. I study the organization of incentives in a variety of contexts, from 19th century armies to motorcycle gangs, from high-end restaurants to Renaissance art markets.

Publications

Journal Articles

Piano, Ennio E., and Hardy, Tanner (2022). Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school. Public Choice, forthcoming.

Piano, Ennio E. (2021).

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Journal Articles

Piano, Ennio E., and Hardy, Tanner (2022). Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school. Public Choice, forthcoming.

Piano, Ennio E. (2021). Specialization and the firm in Renaissance Italian art. The Journal of Cultural Economics, forthcoming.

Piano, Ennio E., and Piano, Clara E. (2021). In persona Christi Capitis: Agency problems when God is the principal. Journal of Economics, Management, and Religion, forthcoming.

Piano, Ennio E., and Al-Bawwab, Rania (2021). The artist as entrepreneur. Review of Austrian Economics, forthcoming.

Piano, Ennio E. (2021). Organizing high-end restaurants. Economics of Governance, 22, 165-192.

Leeson, Peter T., and Piano, Ennio E. (2021). The Golden Age of Mercenaries. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 429-446.

Piano, Ennio E., and Salter, Alexander W. (2021). The fundamental Coase of development: Property rights foundations of the effective state. Journal of Institutional Economics, 17(1), 37-52.

Piano, Ennio E. (2020) "Coase goes to war: Contract choice on the battlefield." Revue d'Economie Politique, 130(6), 1001-1023.

Rouanet, Louis, and Piano, Ennio E. (2020). Filling the ranks. European Review of Economic History, 24(4), 696-715.

Piano, Ennio E. (2020). Desertion as theft. Journal of Institutional Economics, 16(2), 169-183. .

Piano, Ennio E., and Carson, Trey. (2020). Scalp-taking. Rationality and Society, 32(1), 40–66.

Boettke, P. J., & Piano, E. E. (2019). Capital, Calculation, and Coordination. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 37, 9-24.

Piano, Ennio E. (2019). State capacity and public choice: A critical survey. Public Choice, 178(1-2), 289-309.

Books

Murtazashvili, Ilia, and Piano, Ennio E. (2018). The political economy of fracking: Private property, polycentricity, and the shale revolution. New York: Routledge.

Working Papers

Rouanet, Louis, and Piano, Ennio E. "Drafting the Great Army: Optimal conscription in Napoleonic France" (SSRN working paper). Revisions resubmitted, The Journal of Economic History.

Piano, Ennio E., and Piano, Clara E. "Bargaining over Beauty: The economics of Renaissance art contracts." (SocArXiv WP). Revisions requested, Journal of Law & Economics.

Piano, Ennio E., and Piano, Clara E. "Contracting Creativity." (SocArXiv WP). Under review.

Piano, Ennio E., and Rouanet, Louis. "The calculus of American Indian consent." Under review.

Piano, Ennio E. "Economic explanations"

Work in Progres

Political economy of American Indian constitutions (with Louis Rouanet)

On the efficiency of representative institutions: The case of the Italian communes (with Louis Rouanet)

The organization of the barbering industry (with Caleb Fuller)

Metal theft (with Ben Stickle)

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