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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.
Jun 2025: our EL paper (joint with A Monticini and F Salsano) referred to in an expert forum discussion at the EU Parliament
May 2025: our paper "A look offshore: unpacking the routes of misinvoicing in international trade", joint with Elia L, was just accepted by WBER.
"A look offshore: Unpacking the routes of misinvoicing in international trade",
with Leandro Elia,
in The World Bank Economic Review, (2025)
"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).
"Investors' attention and information losses under market stress"
with Philippas, Goutte, Nguyen,
in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2021)
<accepted version>, <codes & data>
"Strategic interactions of fiscal policies in Europe: a global VAR perspective",
with Dionisis Philippas,
in Journal of International Money and Finance, (2015)
<accepted version>; Data from the AMECO dataset, available from www.FIRSTRUN.eu
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