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Personal Details

Citizenship: Italy and UK.

Married, two children, Sarah, born in 2002 and Alice, born in 2005, a dog, Leo, and two cats, Izzy and Max.

Education/Qualifications

• Diploma di Maturita’ Scientifica, Liceo Scientifico Statale “M.L. King” (Genoa, Italy).

• BSc in Economics and Business, (summa cum laude) , University of Genoa.

• MSc in Economics, University of Warwick, 1998.

• Dottorato di Ricerca in European Public Finance, University of Genoa, 1999.

• PhD in Economics, University of Warwick. Thesis Title: Political Economy and Fiscal Choices, 2004.

• Postgraduate Certificate for Academic and Professional Practice (PCAPP), University of Warwick. Learning and Development Centre, 2009.

Appointments held and Visiting Positions

• Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick (UK), since 2012.

• Visiting Monash University, March -April 2020.

• Visiting Professor CESS-Nuffield (Oxford), November 2019-May 2020.

• Visiting Professor, CESifo, Munich, April 2014.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, 2007-2012.

• Visiting Fellow , Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, (September 2006- June 2007).

• CES-Ifo Research Associate, (since 2007).

• Research Fellow, University of Warwick, CSGR, (on maternity leave for one year in 2005-6) (2003-7).

• Visiting Fellow, IMF, Fiscal Affairs Department. (June-July 2002).

• Research Fellow, ESRC-Warwick Centre for Public Economics, on a ESRC project “Multi-jurisdictional Economies: Trade and Tax/Amenity competition”, (on maternity leave 2002 – 2003), (2001-3).

• Lecturer in Mathematics for Social Sciences, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Genoa, (2002).

• Class tutor in Economic Statistics and Econometrics, and Quantitative Technique II, Economics Department, University of Warwick, (1998-2000).

• Research Fellow, University of Genoa, Department of Economics, Italy. (1994-97).

• Consultant, I.L.R.E.S. (Istituto Ligure di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali), Genoa, Italy. Field: Public Finance, Fiscal Federalism, Local Taxation. 1994-97.

Membership of learned or professional societies

• CES-Ifo Research Associate, from 2007.

• Member of the International Institute of Public Finance, from 2004.

• CAGE Research Associate, since 2011.

Refereeing Activity

American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economics Studies, Journal of Public Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of International Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Fiscal Studies, Economic Enquire, Global Networks, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Economics and Politics.

Seminars and Conferences (outside Warwick Economics ) from AY 2013-14

2013: Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (April 2013) Royal Holloway Barcelona (IEB), V Workshop on Fiscal Federalism- The political Economy of Decentralisation, (June 2013), IIPF (Taormina-IT) (August 2013), Public Economics Conference - University of Exeter, (invited speaker) (September 2013) CES-Ifo 7th Workshop on Political Economy (Dresden), (November 2013).

2014: University of Loughborough, Departmental Seminar (February 2014), University of Milan Bicocca (IT), invited speaker, Departmental Seminar (March 2014), CES-Ifo Workshop and PhD 3 CES Lectures, invited speaker (April 2014), IIPF 2014 (Lugano- CH) , (August 2014).

2015: SIEP Ferrara (Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Public Economics), ( Invited speaker), (September 2015) , ZHT Zurich – Department of Economics, Departmental Seminar, (invited speaker) (February 2015), Lancaster University - Workshop in Political Economy, (invited speaker) (May 2015) IIPF 2015 (Dublin-IR) (August 2015), Bocconi University, Dondena Seminar (invited speaker) (September 2015)

2016: PET 2016 (Rio de Janeiro, BR), Political Economy and Development Workshop (September 2016) (invited speaker) (Delhi, IN).

2017: University of Bath, Departmental Seminar (February 2017), VATT (Helsinki) Workshop (invited speaker) (May 2017), University of Essex, Understanding Society, Brexit Workshops (May and June 2017)

2018 PET 18 (Vietnam), NICEP (Nottingham), Workshop in Political Economy (Brunico, Italy), University of Hull, CAGE, University of Brescia (Italy), departmental seminar.

2019. Ofcom London (invited speaker), Sheffield Workshop on Political Economy (invited speaker), Media Bias Workshop (Berlin), University of Stirling (departmental seminar), 11th Paris Conference on Digital Economics (Telecom ParisTech), Barcelona Summer Forum (Political Economy and Public Economics), Alghero (X Workshop on Institution, Individual Behavior and Economic Outcomes), Ofcom London (invited speaker), Tilburg University, Socia Media Workshop CESS- Oxford, SOSE Rome, RAI Oxford.

2020. Nuffield College (Oxford) seminar, Draw Forum (Warwick) seminar, Political Economy (Harvard) seminar, Monash University-Melbourne (seminar) , Women in Political Economy (Stockholm).

2021. BUE-EBEL American University Cairo, Inaugural Conference Invited speaker (February), Societa’ Italiana di Economia Pubblica Meeting, (September), Bruneck Political Economy Workshop (November), Ofcom (November 2021), PEPE (December).

2022. Monash ETH Warwick, Text analysis (February)