Research

My research focuses on Economic Policy and Applied Econometrics, primarily in the fields of Growth and Development, Macroeconomics and Regional Economics. 

Current research

• "Understanding the Drivers of Remittances to Pakistan" (with D. de Padua, I. A. Qureshi, K. Taniguchi). ADB Economics Working Paper Series, NO. 733, July 2024. Status: Preparing for submission.

• ''What’s your shape?’ A data-driven approach to estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve" (with A. F. Gravina). ADB Economics Working Paper Series, NO. 731, June 2024. Status: Submitted.

• "The macroeconomic impact of commodity price shocks" (with M. T. Punzi, I. A. Qureshi, A. Ramayandi). Status: In progress. 

• "Long-term growth prospects in Asia".  Status: In progress. 

• "The real exchange rate and growth: New empirical evidence" (with Fabio Monteforte). 

• "Structural change and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Bayesian Model Averaging approach" (with Maurizio La Rosa). 

• “Business cycles and long-run growth” (with Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz).

• "Structural change and growth in Indonesia" (with Jesus Felipe).

• "The nature of regional growth in Italy" (with Emanuele Millemaci and Fabio Monteforte). 

• “Labour market institutions, business cycles and endogenous growth” (with Giovanni Busetta, Emanuele Millemaci and Fabio Monteforte).

• “Macroeconomic effects of central bank independence and transparency” (with Reginaldo Nogueira Jnr).

• “Monetary independence in emerging economies” (with Reginaldo Nogueira Jnr).

• “New evidence on inflation persistence” (with Reginaldo Nogueira Jnr).

• “The endogeneity of the balance of payments constrained growth rate”.

• “The growth-population relation revisited”.

Permanent working papers

• "The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Latin America" (with F. Monteforte). Available at SSRN, December 2019.

• "The Pillars of Potential Growth and the Role of Policy: A Panel Data Approach" (with J. Felipe, N. Sotocinal and C. Bayudan-Dacuycuy). ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 482, May 2016. 

• “The People's Republic Of China's potential growth rate: The long-run constraints” (with J. Felipe and J. Zhuang). ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 418, November 2014.

• “Inflation targeting and interest rates” (with R. Nogueira Jnr). MPRA Paper No. 46153 , March 2013.

• “Crime and regional growth in Italy”. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers, Paper 929, February, 2013.

• “Economic Structure, Technology Diffusion and Convergence: The Case of the Italian Regions”. Department of Economics Discussion Paper 0507, University of Kent, 2005.