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I am Economist 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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Changing Global Linkages: A New Cold War? (with G. Gopinath, P.O. Gourinchas and P. Topalova), Journal of International Economics, forthcoming

Mobile Internet, Collateral, and Banking (with A. D'Andrea, P. Hitayezu, R. Kpodar and N. Limodio), October 2024

Who Pays For Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market (with S. Agarwal, A. F. Silva and C. Wix), December 2022 (coverage: FT Alphaville, CNBC, NYTimes, Washington Post, Bloomberg (2), WSJ, Vox, Quartz; podcast @VoxTalks and IMF)

Debtor (non-)participation in sovereign debt relief: A real option approach (with D. Cassimon and D. Essers), World Bank Economic Review, forthcoming

Fiscal Consolidation and Public Debt (with A. Ando, P. Mishra, N. Patel and A. Peralta-Alva), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 170: 104988