I am Deputy Division Chief in the European 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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Call for Papers: Special Issue on 'Rewiring the Global Economy: Exposure and Adaptation to Geoeconomic Fragmentation,' co-edited with Andrea Fracasso (UniTN)
Changing Global Linkages: A new Cold War? received the Calvo Prize for the best paper in Open Economy Macroeconomics published in the Journal of International Economics during 2023–2024.
Monetary Policy Transmission to Household Credit: Evidence from Uganda's Credit Registry, with M. Conesa Martinez, E. Kasekende, N. Li, A. Mugume, S. Musoke and C. Okou, IMF Economic Review, forthcoming.
Growth Spillovers from China: A Firm-Level Anatomy, with P. Beltran and L. Franz, draft coming soon.
Middle Powers and a Rupturing Global Order, with G. Cui, N. Fernandez-Arias, P.O. Gourinchas, G.H. Hong, N. Li, P. Topalova, F. Zhang and R. Zymek, draft coming soon.
Macroeconomics of War and Recovery, with H. Balima, C. Ladreit, A. Lagerborg, F. Moreau and E. Weaver, IMF working paper 2026/189.
The Remains of the Trade: The U.S.-China Trade War and its Aftermath, with P. Antras, February 2026 (new draft coming soon).
Shifting Influence? China and the 2025 U.S. Aid Retrenchment, with A. Fuchs, V. Lang and J. Rosenbusch, draft coming soon. (Slides).