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I am Associate Professor of Economics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, within the Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences since 2025.  

In the recent past, I have been teaching for Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) and ESSCA (France) various courses on economics & finance at the graduate level.  

I have 20+ years of academic & professional experience in central banks, European institutions and think-tanks. I received my PhD in 2020 from Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. 

I'm interested in macrofinance, international & public finance, financial economics, information & uncertainty, economic policy analysis and political economy. 

Here you can see my published articles and some recent research projects. 

"A look offshore: Unpacking the routes of misinvoicing in international trade", 

with Leandro Elia, 

in The World Bank Economic Review, (2025) 

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"Media news and market expectations: Insights into the ECB's new data-dependant policy regime", 

with A Monticini and F Salsano,

in Economics Letters, (2024).

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"Investors' attention and information losses under market stress" 

with Philippas, Goutte, Nguyen, 

in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2021) 

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"Strategic interactions of fiscal policies in Europe: a global VAR perspective", 

with Dionisis Philippas, 

in Journal of International Money and Finance, (2015) 

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