Research 

Selected publications:

Brancati E (2025). Help in a foreign land: Internationalized banks and firms' export. Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming. Paper. 

Brancati E, R Minetti, and S C Zhu (2025). Financial shocks and firm innovation in supply chain networks. Management Science, forthcoming. Link. 

Balduzzi P, E Brancati, M Brianti, and F Schiantarelli (2024). Credit constraints and firms' decisions: Lessons from the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Monetary Economics 142, 103519. Link. Online Appendix. 

Balduzzi P, E Brancati, M Brianti, and F Schiantarelli (2023). Political risk, populism, and the economy. The Economic Journal  133(653), 1677-1704. (Lead article) Link. Online Appendix. 

Brancati E and M Macchiavelli (2019). The information sensitivity of debt in good and bad times. Journal of Financial Economics  133(1), 99-112. Link. Online Appendix.

Balduzzi P, E Brancati, and F Schiantarelli (2018). Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions: lessons from two crises. Journal of Financial Intermediation 36, 1-15. (Lead article) Link. Online Appendix.

Brancati E, R Brancati, and A Maresca (2017). Global value chains, innovation, and performance: Firm-level evidence from the Great Recession. Journal of Economic Geography  17(5), 1039-1073. Link. Online Appendix.

Working papers:

Labor market power and self employment around the world, joint with F Amodio, P Brummund, N De Roux, and M Di Maio. CEPR Discussion Paper 18828. IZA Discussion Paper 16823. Paper.

Labor market institutions and wage-setting power: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean, joint with F Amodio, N De Roux, and M Di Maio. CEPR Discussion Paper 20539. IDB Working Paper 1579. Paper. 

Under pressure: Global evidence on conflict and firms, joint with M Di Maio, R Gatti, A Islam. World Bank Working Paper 10898. Paper.

Credit Markets, Corporate Governance and Growth, joint with P Giordani, M Iacopetta, and R Minetti. CEIS Working Paper 595. Paper. 

Work in progress: 

Asymmetric pricing to market and product market frictions, joint with M Brianti, J Nosal, and F Schiantarelli.

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