Global shocks and the debt-growth nexus, with F Casalin and Y Sleibi. Economic Inquiry, 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70045, Feb 2026
Sanctions and Cultural Trade, with M Cevik and S Maioli, The World Economy, https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.70012, online Jul 2025
Becoming a Complex Innovator: The Role of Internal and External Knowledge Sources, with M Aronica, D Piacentino and J Sapsed, R&D Management, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12779
Building back greener, levelling-up or both? An assessment of the economic and environmental efficiency transition of UK regions, with S Maioli and N Rujimora, Papers in Regional Science, 2024, 100053, Volume 103, Issue 6, Papers in Regional Science, ISSN 1056-8190, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pirs.2024.100053
The twin innovation transitions of European regions, with S Maioli and N Rujimora, Regional Studies, 2024, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00343404.2024.2309176
Unconventional monetary policies and credit co-movement in the Eurozone, with Y Sleibi and F Casalin, 2023, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101779
The “Great Lockdown” and cultural consumption in the UK, with S Di Novo and H Bakhshi, Journal of Cultural Economics, 2023, 47, 555-587, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-022-09463-6
Starving the Golden Goose? Access to finance for innovators in the creative industries, with S Di Novo, J Sapsed, J Siepel, Journal of Cultural Economics, 46, 345–386, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-022-09448-5
A micro-founded approach to regional innovation in Italy, with M Aronica and D Piacentino, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 176, 121494, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121494
Global connectivity between commodity prices and national stock markets: A time‐varying MIDAS analysis, with M Enilov and A Ghoshray, 2021, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2552
SMEs' heterogeneity at the extensive margin and within the intensive margin of trade, with M Aronica, D Piacentino. The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 1-29, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2021.1875024
Bank-specific shocks and aggregate leverage: Empirical evidence from a panel of developed countries, with Y Sleibi an F Casalin, Journal of Financial Stability,49, 2020, 100743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2020.100743
The Stabilizing effect of volatility in financial markets, with D Valenti and B Spagnolo, Physical Review E, 97, 062307, 2018 https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.062307
Convergence Analysis for Hierarchical Longitudinal Data, with D Piacentino, Economic Modelling, Volume 73, June 2018, Pages 89-99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2018.03.009
The Real Exchange Rate in the Long Run: Balassa-Samuelson Effects Reconsidered, with M D Bordo, E U Choudri and R MacDonald, Journal of International Money and Finance, 75, 69-92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2017.03.011
National fiscal consolidations and regional inequality in Europe, with L Agnello and R Sousa, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 9 (1), 59-80, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsv033, mentioned in The Economist
Fiducia verso persone e istituzioni: evidenze da una survey sul capitale civico degli studenti, with E Maltese and D Piacentino, Rivista di Economia e Statistica del Territorio (3) 2016. https://doi.org/10.3280/REST2016-003007
Pareto or Lognormal? Best fit and truncation in the distribution of all cities, with M Modica, Journal of Regional Science, 55 (5), 736-756, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12205
The Verdoorn law at the regional level: evidence from Europe, with E Maltese, and D Piacentino, Rivista di Economia e Statistica del Territorio, 2014/2, https://doi.org/10.3280/REST2014-002002
Agglomeration externalities and the productivity of Italian firms, with E Maltese, Growth & Change, 46 (3), pp 354-378, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12093
Social capital formation across space: proximity and trust in European regions, with L Lavecchia, International Regional Science Review, 36,3, 296-321, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0160017613484928
Primary commodity prices: co-movements, common factors and fundamentals, with J Byrne and N Fiess. Journal of Development Economics, 101, 16-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.09.002
Estimating Verdoorn law for Italian firms and regions, with E Maltese and D Piacentino, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 6, 45-54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12076-012-0085-0
Interest rate co-movements, global factors and the long end of the term spread, with J Byrne and N Fiess, Journal of Banking and Finance, 36, 183-192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2011.07.002
A Spatial Multilevel Analysis of Italian SMEs Productivity, with D Piacentino, Spatial Economic Analysis, Vol.5 (3), pp. 299-316, 2010
Domestic vs. International Correlations of Interest Rate Maturities, with J Byrne and N Fiess, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 30 no.2 pp. 1082-1090, 2010
The Global Side of the Investment-Savings Puzzle, with J Byrne and N Fiess, Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, Vol 41 (5), 2009, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40271592
Expectations and the Term Premium as Time Varying Leading Indicators of US Economic Activity, with L Agnello, The Empirical Economics Letters, Vol. 8, no.11, November 2009
TFP Convergence Among Italian Regions: some evidence from panel unit roots, J Byrne and D Piacentino, Regional Studies, Volume 43, 1, 63-76, 2009 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701654137
Trade Balances, Trade Costs and Current Accounts: an application of Gravity to Multilateral Trade, with R MacDonald and J Melitz, Open Economies Review, 19 (5), 2008, 557-578, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11079-008-9082-8
Incentives, Criminal Defense Lawyers and Plea Bargaining, with F Stephen and C Tata, International Review of Law and Economics, 28 (3), pp.212-219, 2008, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2008.06.006
How "attractive" is good governance for FDI?, with C Talamo, International Finance Review, 9, 33-54, 2008, ISSN: 1569-3767, Emerald Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1569-3767(08)09002-X
Economic Differentials and Context Variables: A non-parametric analysis of Italian Regions, ,with D Piacentino and E Vassallo, Review of Economics and Statistics for Regional Studies (Divari Economici e Variabili Di Contesto. Un’analisi Non Parametrica Per Le Regioni Italiane, Rivista di Economia e Statistica del Territorio) (2) 2008, ISSN 1971-0380
Extreme Interdependence and Extreme Contagion Between Emerging Markets, Journal of International Money and Finance, 26 (8), 2007 pp.1261-1291, lead article.
Disaggregate Real Exchange Rate Behaviour, with R MacDonald and P McAdam, Open Economies Review, Vol. 18, pages 389- 404, 2007, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2007.06.006
Fatal Attraction: Using distance to measure contagion in good times as well as bad, with T Bayoumi, M Kumar, and R MacDonald, Review of Financial Economics, 16, 259-273, 2007, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rfe.2007.01.001