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, accepted (latest draft)
Changing Global Linkages: Bridging Geopolitical Fragments (with G. Gopinath, P.O. Gourinchas and P. Topalova), AEA Papers and Proceedings, 115: 605-610.
Bank Financing of Global Supply Chains (with L. Alfaro, M. Brussevich and C. Minoiu), CEPR Discussion Paper 20164 and NBER Working Paper 33754.
Mobile Internet, Collateral, and Banking (with A. D'Andrea, P. Hitayezu, R. Kpodar and N. Limodio), October 2024 (new draft coming soon)
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)