Research
Selected Publications
Inside the White Box: Unpacking the Determinants of Quality and Vertical Specialization (with Esteban Jaimovich and Boryana Madzharova), European Economic Review, vol. 152, n. 104374, February 2023. [Working paper version]
By Force of Confidence (with Stephen E. Satchell), European Economic Review, vol. 150, n. 104311, November 2022. [Working paper version] [Online Appendix]
Love for Quality, Comparative Advantage, and Trade (with Esteban Jaimovich), Journal of International Economics, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 376-391, November 2015.
Quality Ladders in a Ricardian Model of Trade with Nonhomothetic Preferences (with Esteban Jaimovich), Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 908-937, August 2012. [Online Appendix]
Engel’s Curve and Product Differentiation: A Dynamic Analysis of the Effects of Quality on Consumer’s Choice, International Review of Economics, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 157-182, June 2006.
Monograph
Economic Models of Quality Innovation. Aracne: Roma, December 2014.
Other Publications and Working Papers
R/S Analysis and Option Pricing: Application to World Most Important Stock Indices (with Luigi R. Arzedi and Beatrice Venturi), International Journal of Management and Applied Science, vol. 4, no.2, February 2018.
Product Quality Perception of Former Centrally Planned EU Countries' Imports and Exports (with Josef Taušer), FIR Working Paper Series no. 2022-02, June 2023, submitted.
Mode of Transport along the Quality Dimension (with E. Jaimovich), FIR Working Paper Series no. 2021-03, December 2021.
Do the rich (really) consume higher quality goods? Evidence from international trade data (with Daniel Santabárbara), Banco de España Working Paper no. 1607. June 2017. [Online Appendix]
Do Quality Ladders Rationalise the Observed Engel Curves?, BCAM Working Papers no. 1401. March 2014.
Work in Progress
Quality Specialization and International Trade, with Esteban Jaimovich and Boryana Madzharova.
Asset Pricing and Structural Transformation, with Vasco Carvalho, Alessio Moro and Loris Rubini.
The Impact of Foreign Monetary Policy on Eastern European Countries, with Monika Junicke.
Asset Pricing and Investor Preferences, with Andrea Carriero.