RESEARCH INTERESTS

PAPERS IN THE PIPELINE

"Productive Public Spending, Knowledge Spillovers and Convergence: A Multi-Country Analysis"  (with Antonio Pietro Federico). Mimeo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. This version: November 3, 2025 [download]

"Can AK Models Explain Cross-Country Income Distribution and Convergence?".  Mimeo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.  This version: April 16, 2023 [download]

JOURNAL ARTICLES

''Knowledge Gaps, Convergence and Growth'' (with Francesco Venturini). Journal of Economic Geography, accepted, November 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf066  [download]

''Temporary Migration, Indeterminacy and Growth''.  Economic Modelling 149, August 2025, 107112,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2025.107112 

"Growth Accelerations and Takeoffs: Is There a Role for Capital Accumulation?" (with Antonio Pietro Federico). Economics Letters 236, March 2024, page 111576, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111576 [download]

"Migration, Technology Diffusion and Growth" (with Bright Isaac Ikhenaode). Oxford Economic Papers 76, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 837–858, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpad042 [download]

"Migration and Growth in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Creative Destruction". Oxford Economic Papers 74, Issue 4, October 2022, Pages 1139–1166. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpab065 [download]

"Migration, Community Networks and Welfare in Neoclassical Growth Models" (with I. B. Ikhenaode). Journal of Macroeconomics 70, December 2021, 103369. Doi:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2021.103369 [download]

"Free labor mobility and indeterminacy in models of neoclassical growth", Journal of Economics 133, June 2021 , Pages 27–46. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00712-020-00728-2  [download]

“Immigration and remittances in a two-country model of growth with labor market frictions” (with B. I. Ikhenaode), Economic Modelling 93, December 2020, Pages 675-692. Doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.01.017. [download]

"Equilibrium Indeterminacy in One-Sector Small Open Economies: The Role of International Labor Migration". Macroeconomic Dynamics 23, Issue 4, June 2019, pages 1528-1562, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100517000335 [download the working paper version] 

"R&D policy and Competition in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Heterogeneous Firms". Oxford Economic Papers 71, Issue 1, January 2019,  pages 187–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpy018  [download the working paper version]

"A Model of Corporate Intelligence, Secrecy and Economic Growth," International Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 11(2), pages 205-229, June 2015, [download]

"A schumpeterian Growth Model with Random Quaility Improvements" (with A.Minniti A., and P. S. Segerstrom), Economic Theory 52, March 2013, pp. 755-791 [download] 

"Labor Market Rigidity and Productivity Growth in a Model of Innovation-Driven Growth". Economic Modelling 28, October 2011 pp. 1058-1067 [download]

"Trade Integration and Regional Disparity in a Model of Scale-Invariant Growth" (with A. Minniti). Regional Science and Urban Economics 41, March 2011, pp. 20-31 [download]

"A Schumpeterian Growth Model With Equilibrium Unemployment". Metroeconomica 61, January 2010, pp. 398-426 [download]

"Horizontal Innovation-Based Growth and Product Market Competition" (with A. Bucci). Economic Modelling 26, January 2009, pp. 213-221 [download]

"A North-South Model of Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Skill Accumulation". Journal of Development Economics 85, February 2008, pp. 253-281 [download]

OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

"The European Redemption Fund: A Comparison of Two Proposals" (with V. Visco), Politica economica, vol. 3, a. XXVIII, dicembre 2012, pp. 273-306 [download] ( computations)

"Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Labour Market Integration of Young People" (with E. Ghignoni, P. Naddeo, and G. Pappadà). Quaderni di Economia del Lavoro, Vol. 90; 2009, pp. 55-127

"International Technology Gap and Technology Transmission: The Policy Implications" (with G. Garofalo). Economia Politica 2, Agosto 2007, pp. 207-232 [download]

"Proprietary information protection and endogenous technological change: the long-run implications of industrial espionage". Rivista di Politica Economica 95, August-September 2005 

"A Schumpeterian model of wage inequality and Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement" (with L. Spinesi). Rivista di Politica Economica 95, August-September 2005 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Exploring the long-term implications of youth unemployment". "L'integrazione dei giovani nel mercato del lavoro e la felxicurity: una sfida per l'Europa", edited by G. Pappadà, pp. 116-126. ISBN: 9788856831993. Franco Angeli , Milano, Italy, 2009

"Commercio interregionale, internazionalizzazione e agglomerazione spaziale". In "Capitalismo distrettuale, localismi d’impresa, globalizzazione", edited by Giuseppe Garofalo. Firenze University Press, Firenze, Italy, 2007 [download]

"Partial imitation, inequality and growth: the role of the courts’ interpretation of patent law" (with Luca Spinesi).  In "Innovation, Unemployment and Policy in the Theories of Growth and Distribution", edited by Renato Balducci and Neri Salvadori. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2005, pages 110-127 [download]

BOOKS

"Crescita Economica. Stabilità, convergenza e politica macroeconomica". Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2010. Roma (ISBN: 9788861344334).

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND MIMEO

In Defense of the Endogenous Growth Theory: "Conditional" and "Unconditional" Convergence in Two-Country AK Models. MPRA Paper 115092, University Library of Munich, Germany [download]

"Information Gathering, Innovation and Growth," Working Papers 122, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Economics and Law, 2009 [download]

"Endogenous imitation and intellectual property". Mimeo, Catholic University of Louvain, 2005 [download]