Research

Published articles: 

• "Media news and market expectations: Insights into the ECB's new data-dependent policy regime" with A. Monticini and F. Salsano,

Economics Letters (2024)

• "A Chinese clout on energy exports that some countries cannot shake off", with D Philippas and A Fassas, 

Energy Economics (2024), <code and data available here>

• "Uncertainty spill-overs: when policy and financial realms overlap", with E. Bacchiocchi, 

Journal of International Money and Finance (2024), <WP version from Univ Bologna> 

• "How to 'Trump' the energy market: evidence from the WTI-Brent spread" with Philippas D. and Goutte S., 

Energy Policy (2023)

• "News and narratives: a cointegration analysis of Russian economic policy uncertainty", with A. Boitani, 

Economics Letters (2023) <Working paper version available from Univ. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore> ; (Eviews) Code & Data available here.

• "Built-in challenges within the new supervisory architecture of the Eurozone", with D. Philippas, A. Leontitsis, S. Papadamou, 

Journal of Banking Regulation (2023)

• "Local versus global factors weighing on stock market returns during the COVID-19 pandemic", with D. Philippas, 

Finance Research Letters (2022), free access from Elsevier 

• "Investors' attention and information losses under market stress", with Philippas, Goutte and Nguyen, 

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2021)

• "Facing an unfortunate trade-off: policy responses, lessons and spill-overs during the COVID-19 pandemic", 

Economics & Human Biology (2021), <free version>, courtesy of PubMed Central & Elsevier

• "Technology shocks and sectoral labour market spillovers", with Leandro Elia, 

Economics Letters, (2021) < accepted version >

• "Trading off accuracy for speed: Hedge Funds' decision making under uncertainty", with D. Philippas and M. Tsionas, 

International Review of Financial Analysis, (2021)<accepted version>

• "Chasing the 'green bandwagon' in times of uncertainty", with E. Galariotis and D. Philippas, 

Energy Policy, (2021).

• "Exposing volatility spillovers: a comparative analysis based on vector autoregressive models", with Dionisis Philippas, 

Finance Research Letters, (2016).

• "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 link to AMECO vintage 2014 spring, available from www.FIRSTRUN.eu

• "A fast forward look at tertiary education attainment in Europe 2020" (Open Access) with Leandro Elia and Anke Weber, in 

Journal of Policy Modeling, (2015) <slides presented at the CEDEFOP conference in Feb. 2015>

• "An empirical inquiry into the determinants of public education spending in Europe" (Open Access), 

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, (2015).

• "Is the EMU bond market a playground for asymmetries?", with Dionisis Philippas, 

Journal of Economic Asymmetries, (2013).

Policy reports:

• "The social and economic preferences of a tech-savvy generation", with Maria Freitas, in FEPS Studies (2017) 

• "Where and why do we need policy coordination in Europe?", article published in the Spanish magazine Temas (2017)

• "New narratives for the European Project", with Andrea Saltelli, in Working Papers TUT Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, no 59, (2014).

• "Forecasting the Europe 2020 headline target in education and training: a panel data approach", with Anke Weber, in JRC Scientific and Technical Reports, Publication Office of the European Commission (2013)  

Ongoing research projects: 

"A look offshore: unpacking the routes of misinvoicing in international trade", with L. Elia, available as UNU-Wider WP (R&R from WBER, 3rd round)

"Foreign gatekeepers for local markets"

"Managing the chaos: policy challenges in a hyperinflationary environment", with A. Boitani and A. Monticini  

"Repetitive clarity: a language that shapes markets"

"Leveraging propaganda: Chinese ties and regime dynamics in Africa", with L. Elia

"What do banks do?" with D. Philippas