Research

Published Works

The Asymmetric Effect of Credit Supply on Productivity Growth (with Nicola Pierri) (2023) - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Anti-Money Laundering Oversight and Banks' Reporting of Suspicious Transactions: Some Empirical Evidence (with Mario Gara, Domenico J. Marchetti, and Marco Marinucci) (2023), The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 

Supporting innovative entrepreneurship: an evaluation of the Italian "Startup Act" (with Carlo Menon and Stefano Santoleri) (2021) - Industrial and Corporate Change - vol. 30(6), pp. 1591-1614.

Inelastic buyers and competition (with Giacomo Calzolari, Andrea Ichino, and Viki Nellas) (2018) - the Economic Journal - vol. 128(615), pp. 2843-2875.

Does credit crunch investments down? New evidence on the real effects of the bank-lending channel (with Federico Cingano and Enrico Sette) (2016) Review of Financial Studies - vol. 29(10), pp. 2737-2773.

Adult financial literacy and households's financial assets: the role of bank information policy (with Margherita Fort and Serena Trucchi) (2016) Economic Policy - vol. 31(88), pp. 745-782

Red tape reduction and firm entry: evidence from an Italian reform (with Monica Amici, Silvia Giacomelli, and Marco Tonello) (2016) - Economic Letters - vol. 146, pp. 24-27

Smoking and obesity: can we catch two birds with one tax? (with Davide Dragone and Luca Savorelli) (2015) Health Economics - doi: 10.1002/hec.3231

Don't stand so close to me: the urban impact of immigration  (with Antonio Accetturo, Sauro Mocetti, and Elisabetta Olivieri) (2014) Regional Science and Urban Economics - vol. 45, pp. 45-56 

Working Papers

Managerial Input and Firm Performance. Evidence from a Policy Experiment [downloadable!] (with Alessandro Palma, Luca Salvatici, and Vincenzo Scrutinio (2022)

Minimum Wages and Insurance Within the Firm [downloadable!] (with Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Omar Rachedi and Emircan Yurdagul) (2022)

Born in Hard Times: Startups and Intangible Investments During the Crisis [downloadable!] (with Filippo Scoccianti and Guzman Gonzales-Torres) (2020)

Sources and Implications of Resource Misallocation:  New Evidence from Firm-level Marginal Products and User Costs [downloadable!][Appendix] (with Simone Lenzu) (2018)

The evaluation of the Italian "Startup Act" [downloadable!] (with C. Menon, T. De Stefano, P. Santoleri, G. Soggia) (OECD Policy Paper 2018)

Battle Scars. New firm's capital, labor, and revenue growth during the double-dip recession [downloadable!] (with Filippo Scoccianti) (2016)

Consumption during recession: evidence of liquidity constraints and time inconsistency (2015)

Net employment growth by firm size and age in Italy [downloadable!] (2015) 

Finance and creative destruction: evidence for Italy [downloadable!] (with Francesca Lotti) (2015) 

Tobacco taxes and smoking bans impact differently on obesity and smoking habits [downloadable!] (with Davide Dragone and Luca Savorelli) (2013)

Work in Progress

Firm-level Productivity Divergence and Aggregate Productivity Growth (with Chiara Criscuolo, Alexander Himbert and Martin Reinhard) 

Technology Diffusion, Intangible Investments and Credit Constraints (with Flavio Calvino, Clara Koegel, and Rudy Verlhac)

Past Works

The monthly cycle of consumption and the role of shopping costs (2012)

Aid effort and its determinants:  a comparison of the Italian performance with other OECD donors   [downloadable!] (with Simone Bertoli and Giovanni Andrea Cornia)