I am Deputy Division Chief in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, CEPR Research Fellow in the International Macroeconomics and Finance programme, Associate Fellow at SAIS Europe, and member of the Money & Finance Research (MoFiR). I have been Assistant Professor at the Universita' Politecnica delle Marche and Associate Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). My research focuses on financial intermediation, banking, development finance, and sovereign debt. I am associate editor of the IMF Economic Review, Economia (LACEA) and the Journal of Financial Stability.
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The HIPC Initiative and China’s Emergence as a Lender: post hoc or propter hoc?, with T. Cordella and M. Cufre, Journal of Development Economics, 179: 103632.
Bank Financing of Global Supply Chains, with L. Alfaro, M. Brussevich and C. Minoiu, CEPR Discussion Paper 20164 and NBER Working Paper 33754.
The Remains of the Trade: The U.S.-China Trade War and its Aftermath, with P. Antras, February 2026.
Shifting Influence? China and the 2025 U.S. Aid Retrenchment, with A. Fuchs, V. Lang and J. Rosenbusch, draft coming soon
Developing the Mortgage Market: Technology, Property Rights, and Banking, with A. D'Andrea, P. Hitayezu, R. Kpodar and N. Limodio, March 2026 (new draft coming soon), invited submission to the Review of Financial Studies.
Emerging Market Resilience: Good Luck or Good Policies?, with M. Bolhuis, F. Grigoli, M. Kolasa, R. Meeks and Z. Zhang, CEPR Press Discussion Paper No. 20857, November 2025.