PUBLICATIONS
A selection of my recent papers:
Measuring remittances (with Alexander Fertig, Yuna Lijang, Peter Srouji, Dean Yang), Journal of Development Economics, March 2023: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.103004
Migration and Trade during the Belle Epoque in Argentina (1870-1913) (with Rama Dasi Mariani and Federico Nastasi), World Trade Review, April 2022; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745622000027
Intra-household allocation with shared expenditure choices: experimental evidence from Filipino migrants (withMajlinda Joxhe), Review of Economics of the Household, March 2020; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-020-09485-z.
Migration,Labor Tasks and Production Structure (with Edoardo Di Porto and Gianluca Santoni), Regional Science and Urban Economics, July 2015, vol. 53, pp. 156-169. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2015.06.001
Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome (with Majlinda Joxhe, David McKenzie, Erwin Tiongson and Dean Yang) World Bank Working Paper Series n. 6896, May 2014, NBER Working Paper n. 20839 January 2015, in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2015; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2014.12.025
How Do Migrants Save? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey on Temporary and Permanent Migrants versus Natives (with Majlinda Joxhe), DISSE Working Paper 11/2014, December 2014, published in IZA Journal of Migration, 4 (11), 12 June 2015; DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s40176-015-0034-y.
Immigration and Manufacturing In Italy. Evidence from the 2000s (with Edoardo Di Porto and Gianluca Santoni), May 2014, in Journal of Industrial and Business Economics (Economia e Politica Industriale) 2015
Migration, Production Structure and Exports (with Edoardo Di Porto and Gianluca Santoni), mimeo available at SSRN (abstract 2249943), March 2013
Unconventional Analyses and Policies for the International Economy (with Luca A. Ricci and Pier Carlo Padoan), published in Review of International Economics, 20(3), 439–442, 2012.
Balance-of-Payments Crises During the Great Recession: Is This Time Different? (with Tiziano Arduini and Carlo L. Del Bello), published in Review of International Economics, 20 (3), 517–534, 2012.
Return Decisions of Undocumented Migrants: Do Network Effects Help the High-Skilled Overstay? (with Nicola D. Coniglio and Laura Serlenga), published in Labour, vol. 24, 2010.
The Location of Immigrants in Italy: Disentangling Networks and Local Effects (with Hubert Jayet and Nadiya Ukrayinchuk), published in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010.
Intentions to Return of Undocumented Migrants: the Perverse Effect of Illegality on Skills (with Nicola D. Coniglio and Laura Serlenga), published in Review of Development Economics, 2009.
Illegal Immigration into Italy: Results from a Recent Field Survey (with Maria Concetta Chiuri, Angela D'Uggento and Giovanni Ferri), CSEF Working Paper n. 121, July 2004, (this version 2006).
The Business Cycle and its International Transmission: Recent Changes for the Italian Economy (with Macro Cacciotti, Benedetta Cerciello and Giorgia Giovannetti), published in Rivista di Politica Economica, July-August 2005.
Identifying Fiscal Shocks and Policy Regimes in Some OECD Countries (with Serena Lamartina), European Central Bank Working Paper n. 281, 2003.
Sectoral Determinants and Dynamics of ICT Investment in Italy (with Cecilia Jona-Lasinio and Stefano Manzocchi), published in Rivista di Politica Economica, 2004.
Crises in the Countries of Origin and Illegal Immigration into Italy (with Maria Concetta Chiuri and Giovanni Ferri), mimeo presented at the AIEL 2002 Annual Conference.
Monetary Policy Shocks and Transmission in Italy: A VAR Analysis (with Giorgio Di Giorgio), paper presented at the Sadiba Conference (Bank of Italy), December, 1999.