Op-Eds

“Housing Affordability Remains Stretched Amid Higher Interest Rate Environment” (2024) [IMF Blog] [Eurasia Review] International Monetary Fund, with Nassira Abbas, 11 January

“The challenge facing Italy’s new coalition” (2022) [LSE EUROPP], EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, with Mara Monti, 24 Oct

“Assessing the ECB’s new Transmission Protection Mechanism.” (2022)  [LSE EUROPP]  [IlSole24Ore], EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, with Anthony Bartzokas and Renato Giacon, 20 July

“Russia’s War in Ukraine Is Driving Global Inflation. Here’s How Much.” (2022)  [Barron's], Commentary, Barron's Online, 8 July

“The Ukraine war intensifies the dilemma facing monetary policymakers by simultaneously harming growth and exacerbating already high inflation” (2022)  [LSE British Politics and Policy]  [Brave New Europe] LSE British Politics and Policy, 28 Mar

“A Hamilton Moment for Europe? Demystifying the Next Generation EU and the EU Recovery Funds” (2022)  [LSE EUROPP]  [Harvard Growth Lab] ,  EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, with Renato Giacon, 25 Mar

"The US may be stuck with higher inflation in 2022, and potentially beyond" (2021) [LSE USAPP] [NIESR Blog] with Patricia Sanchez-Juanino and Barry Naisbitt, LSE American Politics and Policy, LSE Phelan Centre,  24 Nov

“What economic complexity theory can tell us about the EU’s pandemic recovery and resilience plans” (2021)  [LSE EUROPP]  [Harvard Growth Lab] [NIESR Policy Papers],  EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, with Ricardo Hausmann, Miguel Angel Santos and Renato Giacon, 30 Aug

“The EU’s recovery funds should be released when Europe’s economies can reopen” (2021)  [LSE EUROPP] [NIESR Blog] [Il Sole 24 ore], EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, with Renato Giacon, 18 May

“Government bond term premia during the pandemic” (2020)  [National Institute Economic Review Preview] [LSE COVID-19] National Institute Economic Review -Preview, 27 October

"The impact of Brexit on bond prices" (2020) [UKiCE blog] [NIESR Blog], UK in a Changing Europe, with Sathya Mellina, 9 October

“Is it all quiet on the inflation front, still?” (2020)  [LSE COVID-19] [NIESR Blog],  LSE COVID-19, School of Public Policy, with  Cyrille  Lenoël, 16 September

“Once the dust settles, supporting emerging economies will be the challenge” (2020) [LSE COVID-19] LSE COVID-19, School of Public Policy, with Amit Kara and Renato Giacon, 11 May

“Now it is the turn of leaders to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save Europe” (2020) [Encompass Europe] [LSE EUROPP] Encompass Online, with Sebastian Diessner and Erik Jones, 23 April

“Labour markets and optimum currency areas: Lessons for the euro area from China and the US” (2019) [LSE EUROPP]  EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, with Fotis Mitropoulos, 21 October 

“Labour market mobility in the EU before and after the crisis” (2019) [LSE Business Review] LSE Business Review, with V. Monastiriotis and Nikolitsa Lampropoulou, 14 October

“Is politics becoming one of the ECB’s biggest problems?” (2019), [LSE EUROPP] EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, with   M. Monti, 11 June 

“Why non-performing loans are still putting the European Banking Union at risk” (2019), [LSE EUROPP] [LSE Business Review] [Il Sole 24 ore] EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, with  R. Giacon, A. Georgosouli and M. Monti, 27 March 

“Europe Beyond Brexit: what’s next?”  (2018) [LSE Brexit] [LSE EUROPP] with R. Dunin-Wąsowicz, LSE Brexit, 19 December 

“Tackling the free rider problem in the EMU does not have to be a zero-sum game: Italy’s budget deficit case”  (2018) [LSE EUROPP] [Il Sole 24 ore], EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, 19 November 

“The EMU quest for integration: What does the ECB’s collateral data tell us?” (2018) [LSE EUROPP] with M. Monti, EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, 17 July

“A history of the European core and its periphery: How an optimal currency area forms” (2018) [VoxEU.org] with N. Campos, VoxEU.org, 12 March 

“Brexit threatens City’s future in European payment systems” [LSE EUROPP] [LSE Brexit] (2018) with M. Monti, EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, 26 February 

“Assessing the impact of the ECB’s Corporate Sector Purchase Programme on SMEs” (2017) [LSE EUROPP] with M. Monti and A. Vedolin, EUROPP - European Politics and Policy, 27 September

“How the Eurozone’s core versus periphery pattern evolved over time” (2016) [LSE Business Review] with N. Campos, LSE Business Review, 14 Dec 

“A new measure of  economic asymmetries in the Eurozone” (2016) [VoxEU.org] [World Economic Forum] with N. Campos, VoxEU.org, 19 October

“Quantitative easing: to deal with the root of the problem, the ECB should rather tackle non-performing loans” (2016) [LSE Business Review] with E. Gerba, LSE Business Review, 10 March 

“Brexit, ‘euro-ins’, and ‘euro-outs” (2016) [VoxEU.org] [LSE EUROPP] with N. Campos, VoxEU.org, 03 March 

"How Europe Plans To Secure Its Need For Coal?" (2022) [Global Echo], Interview for Global Echo News, 23 April

"What do Developments in the UK Bond Market Mean?" (2022) [NIESR Monday Interview], Interview with Paula Bejarano Carbo, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 10 October

"What Now for the Global Economy" (2022) [NIESR Monday Interview], Monday Interview with Paul Mortimer-Lee, 24 January

"Europe's homegrown payments network gains momentum" (2021) [American Banker], Interview for American Banker, 3 December

"What is the European Payments Initiative and will it really work?" (2021) [Raconteur], Interview for Raconteur, 10 August