Research
Working papers
"Monetary capacity", with Adam Brzezinski, Kivanç Karaman and Nuno Palma. Also featured on VoxEU.
"Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era: a Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages", with Kerem Cosar.
"Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion", with Giovanni Facchini, Alex Tarasov, Gian Luca Tedeschi and Cecilia Testa.
"Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads", with Yuan Gu, Steven Poelhekke and Gian Luca Tedeschi. Also featured on VoxEU. Reject and Resubmit at International Economic Review.
Publications
"Trade disruption, industrialisation, and the setting sun of British colonial rule in India", with Björn Brey. Online Appendix. Also featured on Ideas4India and E-International Relations. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 1407-1451.
"The 'Baccarini Law Railways' (1880-1890): their Long-Run Sectoral Impact" (with Giovanni Facchini, Alex Tarasov, Gian Luca Tedeschi and Cecilia Testa). Rivista di Storia Economica/Italian Review of Economic History, 2022, Vol 28, No. 2, pp. 233-261.
“Credit constraints and the Inverted-U relationship between competition and innovation”, Economica, 2020, Vol. 87, pp. 442-449.
“Growth, Import Dependence and War” (joint with Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke), Economic Journal, 2018, Vol. 128 (September), pp. 2222-2257. Also featured on Voxeu.
“The Sustainability of Empire in a Global Perspective: The Role of International Trade Patterns”, Journal of International Economics, 2017, Vol. 108, pp. 136-156. Online Appendix.
“From mine to coast: transport infrastructure and the direction of trade in developing countries” (joint with Steven Poelhekke), Journal of Development Economics, 2017, Vol. 127 (July), pp. 91-108. Online Appendix.
"An Economic Theory of Foreign Interventions and Regime Change", Canadian Journal of Economics, 2017, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 306-339. Online Appendixes A and B.
"Tax policy and the financing of innovation" (joint with Luis A. Bryce Campodonico and Luigi Pisano), Journal of Public Economics, 2016, Vol. 135, pp. 32-46.
“Trade and the Allocation of Talent with Capital Market Imperfections” (joint with Maitreesh Ghatak), Journal of International Economics, 2013, Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 187-201.
Work in progress
"From British Raj to Licence Raj: Trade Disruption and the Rise of the Industrial Lobby in India", with Bjoern Brey and Cyril Thomson. COMING SOON!
"The Political Economy of Imperial Trade Policies", with Giovanni Facchini, Peri Silva and Ling Zhou. BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant recipient. COMING SOON!
"Regional Favouritism and Natural Resource Discoveries", with Steven Poelhekke and Gian Luca Tedeschi.
"The Great Depression, Trade, and Political Outcomes in Britain", with Facundo Albornoz, Valeria Rueda and Ling Zhou.
"The Political Economy of the Italian Broadband Rollout", with Marco Bertoni, Elona Harka and Orestis Troumpounis.
Chapters in peer-reviewed books
“Foreign Influence and the China-Africa Trade in Natural Resources”, in Padovano, Fabio and Alessandro Petretto (Eds.), Public Choice and Political Economy, Milan, Franco Angeli (2010).