Research

Publications:

Fostering resiliency, the importance of the demand side Proceedings of the 20th Wind Integration Workshop, 29 Sep. 2021 [download]

The Danish Matched Employer-Employee Data (with Henning Bunzel) In: Firm Heterogeneity, Labor Markets and International Trade. Ed. by Henning Bunzel, Bent Jesper Christensen, and Dale Mortensen. Springer Verlag, forthcoming [download]

Reallocation and the role of firm composition effects on aggregate wage dynamics (with Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Marta De Philippis, Federico Giorgi) IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8(3), pp. 1-24 [download] [Previously circulated as "Allocative efficiency and aggregate wage dynamics in Italy, 1990-2013," Quaderni di Economia e Finanza nr. 340, download old version]

Patterns of Convergence (Divergence) in the Euro Area: Profitability Versus Cost and Price Indicators (with Monica Amici and Roberto Torrini) Italian Economic Journal, 2018, 4(3), pp. 367–384 [download]

Wage rigidities and business cycle fluctuations: a linked employer-employee analysis (with Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Marta De Philippis, and Federico Giorgi) IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5(22), pp. 1-32 [download]

Working papers:

Price Responsive Demand in Britain’s Electricity Market (with Simon Brandkamp, Stephanie Chan, Peter, Cramton, David Malec, and Lucy Yu) Working Paper, University of Cologne, January 2022 [download]

Resilient Electricity Requires Consumer Engagement (with Simon Brandkamp, Stephanie Chan, Peter Cramton, David Malec, and Lucy Yu) Working Paper, University of Cologne, January 2022 [download]

Electricity Markets in Transition: A multi-decade micro-model of entry and exit in advanced wholesale markets (with Peter Cramton, David Malec, and Pat Sujarittanonta) Working Paper, University of Cologne, September 2021 [download]

The Financial Impact of the 2021 Texas Winter Storm on Generation Owners: Outages, Forward Obligations, and Repricing (with Peter Cramton, David Malec, and Pat Sujarittanonta) [Tableau workbook 386 MB; Tableau Reader to view the workbook]

Welfare effects of optimal road pricing in a simple model of a city with heterogeneous agents (with Peter Cramton and Axel Ockenfels) Working Paper, University of Cologne, September 2021 [download]

A bottleneck with variable capacity, approximate and exact solutions (with Peter Cramton and Axel Ockenfels) Working Paper, University of Cologne, March 2019 [download]

Replacement search and wages, Working Paper, University of Cologne, December 2019 [download] (previously circulated as "Replacement hiring and wages," download old version)

Tax evasion, firm dynamics, and growth, Working Paper, Bank of Italy, October 2016 [download] (Media coverage: VoxEU, 05 November 2016; Economist’s View, 05 November 2016; Truenumbers, 25 October 2016; Il Sole 24 Ore, 4 April 2017; lavoce.info, 15 June 2018)

Reallocation and growth in transitions (with Rasmus Lentz) Working Paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 2010 [download]

Some considerations on the optimality and coverage of the Italian unemployment insurance system, Working Paper, Bank of Italy, April 2011 [download]

New evidence on service lives of capital goods in Italy: implications for capital stock measurement and TFP growth (with Massimiliano Iommi and Rafaele Tartaglia-Polcini) Working Paper, Bank of Italy, March 2015 [download]

Ph.d. dissertation:

Three essays in economics [download]

Advisors: Rasmus Lentz (main), John Kennan, Salvador Navarro

Policy work:

Approfondimenti sul mercato del lavoro e le politiche sociali: l'indennità ordinaria di disoccupazione

Partecipazione al lavoro e inclusione sociale: aspetti critici e possibili interventi (with Andrea Brandolini, Fabrizio Colonna, Francesco D'Amuri, Alfonso Rosolia, Roberto Torrini, and Roberta Zizza)