I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics at King's Business School, King's College London; previous to King's I was at University of Toronto and University of Essex; I hold a Phd from Berkeley; I am a Research Fellow at IZA, CESifo, CReAM and an Associate Editor at the Economic Journal. My primary fields are Labour & Regional Economics. Much of my current work is at the intersection of my primary fields and Environmental Economics; more generally, some of my research has a Political Economy angle. I mainly study the causes and the consequences of differences across space in labour market outcomes. Within this agenda, research keywords are green transition, manufacturing, regional institutions.

  Current Research

• The World’s Rust Belts: The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six  Countries – with L. Gagliardi, E. Moretti; Submitted, NBER Working Paper 31948. [Media/Outreach: UK Cabinet Office's Open Innovation Team, Forbes, Les Echos, Resolution Foundation, FAZ, NBER Digest, IZA World of Labor, VoxEU, U of Essex taster]

• Local Labour Market Consequences of Coal Phaseout - with D. Sonedda

• Deindustrialization as a Double-edged Sword: Comparing Employment and Environmental Effects - with N. Reynolds

• Demand for Green Skills in an Evolving Landscape - with E. Arenas-Arroyo, J. Fabian, F. Mengel, B. Schmidpeter

• Inventors' Coworker Networks and Innovation – with S. Di Addario, Z. Feng; Submitted, IZA DP No. 17398

• Tourism and Growth in the Local Labor Market - with L. Conti, M. Francesconi, G. Papini 

• Rural Employment Evolutions - with E. Faieta, Z. Feng

   Publications

• Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations  - with G. Abebe & M. McMillan, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 158  [VoxDev; Replication Files]

• Creativity over Time and Space - with G. Tabellini, Journal of Economic Growth, Vol. 27, pages 1–43,  [Media/outreach: Resolution Foundation, EEA Briefing, VoxEU, Marginal Revolution; Replication Files; Web Appendix] 

• 'Good' Firms, Worker Flows and Local Productivity,  Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 37, pages 747-792. [VoxEU; Replication Files; Web Appendix; Slides]

• Politico-economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State-socialism - with P. Campa, Review of Economics and Statistics, 101 (2), 233-248. [Media/outreach: VoxEU, HSE talk , Policy Brief, Convos With Tyler N. Nunn podcast; Replication Files; Web Appendix] 

• Attitudes, Policies and Work - with F. Giavazzi & F. Schiantarelli, Journal of the European Economic Association, 11 (6), 1256-1289  [Ungated Version; Replication Files; Web Appendix; non-technical summary]