PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
Exploiting Growth Opportunities: The Role of Internal Labor Markets, (2024), The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 91, Issue 5, October 2024, Pages 2676–2716, (with Giacinta Cestone, Chiara Fumagalli and Francis Kramarz).
TBTs, Firm Organization and Labour Structure, (2023), Review of International Economics, 1-35, (with Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Lionel Fontagné, Gianluca Orefice and Anna Cecilia Rosso),
Complementarities between Labour Market Institutions and their Causal Impact on Youth Labour Market Outcomes, (2020), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Volume 20: Issue 3, (with Niall O'Higgins).
Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes, (2018), The Economic Journal, Volume 128, Issue 612, Pages F353-F403, (with Maia Güell, Michele Pellizzari and José V. Rodríguez Mora).
Employment Protection Legislation, Capital Investment and Access to Credit: Evidence from Italy, (2016), The Economic Journal, Volume 126, Issue 595, Pages 1798–1822, (with Federico Cingano, Marco Leonardi and Julián Messina).
Do Transfer Taxes Reduce Intergenerational Transfers?, (2014), Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 12, Issue 1, pages 248-275, (with Tullio Jappelli and Mario Padula).
Who pays for it? The heterogeneous wage effects of Employment Protection Legislation, (2013), The Economic Journal, Volume 123, Issue 573, pages 1236-1278, (with Marco Leonardi).
Featured in L'Unità (19/02/2012).
The Deep-Pocket Effect of Internal Capital Markets, (2013), Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 109, Issue 1, pp. 122-145, (with Giacinta Cestone, Chiara Fumagalli, Nicolas Serrano-Velarde and Xavier Boutin).
Featured in The Economist (11/01/2014), The Sunday Telegraph (02/05/2011).
Finance and Employment, (2012), Economic Policy, Volume 27, Issue 69, pp. 5-55, (with Marco Pagano).
Who's Afraid of a Globalized World? Foreign Direct Investment, Local Knowledge and Allocation of Talents, (2011), Journal of International Economics, Volume 85, Issue 1, pp. 86-101, (with José V. Rodríguez Mora).
The age-productivity gradient: evidence from a sample of F1 drivers, (2011), Labour Economics, Volume 18, Issue 4, pp. 464-473, (with Fabrizio Castellucci and Mario Padula).
Capital Markets Integration and Labor Market Institutions, (2010), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 6.
The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries, (2010), Economic Policy, Volume 25, Issue 61, pp. 117-163, (with Federico Cingano, Marco Leonardi and Julián Messina).
Effects of Employment Protection on Job and Worker Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform, (2008), Labour Economics, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 78-95, (with Adriana D. Kugler).
Featured in L'Unità (19/02/2012)
Chapters in books
Long-term unemployment in Italy after the Great Recession, (2016), in Samuel Bentolila and Marcel Jansen Eds., Long-Term Unemployment After the Great Recession: Causes and remedies, VoxEU.org Book, CEPR Press, (with Federico Cingano and Alfonso Rosolia)
Youth unemployment in Italy, (2015), in Juan José Dolado Eds., No Country for Young People? Youth Labour Market Problems in Europe, VoxEU.org Book, CEPR Press, (with Marco Leonardi).
The Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labor Market, (2006), in Julián Messina, Claudio Michelacci, Jarkko Turunen, and Gylfi Zoega, Eds., Labour Market Adjustments in Europe. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, (with Adriana D. Kugler).