Research

Journal articles

2023. "Life-cycle wealth accumulation and consumption insurance", with Marcello Sartarelli, Journal of Macroeconomics. 79, article 103566

2023. "Top earners, a labour productivity process", with Rocio Fernandez-Bastidas, Economic Letters. 229, article 111195

2018. “Luxury consumption, precautionary savings and wealth”. B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Advances. 18-1, article 1.

2016. “Wealth inequality under keeping up with the Joneses preferences". Economic Letters. 145, pp. 282-285.

2016. “Two-tier labour market reform:  a quantitative general equilibrium assessment”, with Francesco Turino. Applied Economic Letters. 23(13), pp. 930-935.

2015. “Life-cycle portfolio choice with liquid and illiquid financial assets”, with Carolina Fugazza and Francisco Gomes,  Journal of Monetary Economics. 71, 67-83.

2011. “Learning, ambiguity and life-cycle portfolio allocation”, Review of Economic Dynamics. 14-2, pp. 339-367.

2010. “Private equity returns in a model of entrepreneurial choice with learning”, B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Contributions. 10-1, article 22.

2010. “Asset pricing in a production economy with Chew-Dekel preferences”, with Rui Castro and Gian Luca Clementi, Review of Economic Dynamics. 13-2, pp. 379-402.

2009. “Life-cycle portfolio choice: The role of heterogeneous under-diversification”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 33, (9), pp.1682-1698.  

2007. “Increasing returns to savings and wealth inequality”, Review of Economic Dynamics. 10-4, pp. 646-675.

Book chapters

2011. “A Review of modern theories of wealth inequality”, in J. Gonzales (Ed.) “Economics of wealth in the 21st century”, Nova Publishers, Hauptpage, NY.

Working papers

2018. "Life-cycle Wealth Accumulation and Consumption Insurance", with Marcello Sartarelli

Work in progress

"Government revenues and top labor income tax rate", with Rocío Fernández Bastidas

“Preference for wealth and life-cycle portfolio choice”, with Carolina Fugazza