Publications in peer-reviewed journals
“Bank lending, collateral, and credit traps in a monetary union,” European Economic Review, Vol. 144, May 2022 (earlier version: Research Technical Paper 2/RT/16, Central Bank of Ireland, March 2016).
Research papers
"Public goods, fiscal politics and the central bank" (Working paper coming soon).
“Firm or bank weakness? Access to finance since the European sovereign debt crisis” (with D. Faccia), ECB Working Paper No 2361, January 2020 (earlier version: Research Technical Paper 12/RT/19, Central Bank of Ireland, October 2019).
Policy work
"A strategic view on the economic and inflation environment in the euro area" (member of the Workstream on the changing economic and inflation environment, ECB Monetary policy strategy review 2025), ECB Occasional Paper No 371, June 2025.
“The ECB's review of its monetary policy strategy" (with N. Lawton), Signed article, Quarterly Bulletin, No. 4, October 2021: pp. 70-103, Central Bank of Ireland.
"The ECB’s price stability framework: past experience, and current and future challenges" (member of the Workstream on the price stability objective, ECB monetary policy strategy review 2020-21), ECB Occasional Paper No 269, September 2021.
“Monetary policy regimes and the lower bound on interest rates,” Economic Letter 6/EL/18, Central bank of Ireland, May 2018.
“Reforming banking regulation for sovereign exposures: implications for the monetary transmission mechanism” (with D. Faccia), Quarterly Bulletin, No. 4, October 2016: pp. 46-49, Central Bank of Ireland.
“Non-standard monetary policy, corporate lending, and the balance sheet channel,” Quarterly Bulletin, No. 1, January 2016: pp. 56-60, Central Bank of Ireland.
Earlier research papers
“Labor market frictions and fertility” (earlier version: chapter 3 of my Doctoral dissertation).
"Family ties, instutitions, and income inequality" (with S. Piccolo, chapter 4 of my Doctoral dissertation).