Curriculum
Current position
Jan 2019 to present: Full Professor of Economics, SECS-P/01, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Nov 2019 to present: Director of the undergraduate study program in Economics and Finance, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Research fellowships
Jan 2019 to present: CEPR (Centre for Economic Research Policy)
Jan 2009 to present: CESifo (Institute for Economic Research)
Editorial activity
2017 to present: Associate editor for Macroeconomic Dynamics
2017 to present: Member of the editorial board for Italian Economic Journal
2018-2021: Associate editor for International Review of Law and Economics
Referee for: Econometrica; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Journal of Development Economics; European Economics Review; Economic Journal; Economic Modelling; Canadian Journal of Economics; Economic Notes; Economic Inquiry; Papers in Regional Science; Macroeconomic Dynamics; Italian Economic Journal; International Review of Law and Economics; Review of World Economics - Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv; International Review of Economics; Journal of International Trade & Economic Development; Journal of Banking and Finance; Corporate Governance; International Economics and Economic Policy; Economic Change and Restructuring; Open Economies Review; Economics of Innovation and New Technology; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Sapienza Editore; Italian Treasury Department; Journal of Institutional Economics; International Review of Law and Economics; Review of International Economics; Journal of Population Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics.
Non academic committees (selection)
2022: Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (SSPA)
2021: Bank of Italy
Past professional and visiting positions
Dec 2012-Dec 2018: Associate Professor of Economics - SECS-P/01, Sapienza University of Rome (maternity leaves: 26 Jun-30 Dec 2014; 21 Dec 2017-31 May 2018)
Jan 2014: Visiting Research Fellow, Santa Fe Institute (NM)
May 2013: Visiting Research Scholar, Dept of Economics, Sciences-Po, Paris
Jan 2013: Visiting Research Fellow, Santa Fe Institute (NM)
Mar-May 2012: Visiting Research Scholar, Dept of Economics, MIT
Jan-Feb 2012: Visiting Research Fellow, Santa Fe Institute (NM)
Mar 2011-Apr 2011: Visiting Research Scholar, Dept of Economics, Sciences-Po, Paris
Nov 2006-Dec 2012: Assistant Professor of Economics - SECS-P/01, Sapienza University of Rome
Sept 2005-Oct 2006: Post-Doc Research Fellow (2-year grant for research and teaching), Dept of Public Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Oct 2005-Nov 2005: Visiting Research Scholar, Dept of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Aug 2004-Aug 2005: Visiting Research Scholar, Dept of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Education
Sept 2001-May 2005: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Siena. Supervisor: Ugo Pagano – Dissertation: “Essays on Institutions and International Trade” – Graduation commettee: Pranab K. Bardhan (Univ. of California at Berkeley), Sam Bowles (Santa Fe Institute), Giancarlo Gandolfo (Sapienza Univ. of Rome)
Aug 2003-aug 2004: Concurrent Enrollment Program, PhD in Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Sept 2001-July 2002: M.Phil. in Economics, University of Siena
Feb-Apr 2001: Visiting Research Student, Economics, University College of Dublin
Sept 1997-July 2001: MA (Laurea) in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome – Summa cum laude
Other research activities
May-June 2011: International Growth Centre (London School of Economics), Project: Export Promotion Policies in Sierra Leone (scoping visit May 2011)
Oct-Dec 2010: International Growth Centre (London School of Economics), Project: Sierra Leone National Export Strategy-Implementation issues and Recommendations project in Sierra Leone
2010: European Commission and College of Europe. Project: Analysis of E-Inclusion Impact Resulting from Advanced R&D Based on Economic Modelling in Relation to Innovative Capacity, Capital Formation, Productivity, and Empowerment
Conferences and invited seminars
2023: EIEF Seminars.
2022: Inequality in Rome Seminars, Roma Tre University.
2019: MILLS Workshop, University of Milan; Young Economists' Workshop on Social Economy, University of Bologna (keynote speaker).
2018: ISLE (Italian Society of Law and Economics), University of Salento (keynote speaker).
2017: 2nd Socrates Workshop, University of Pisa; University of Pescara; University of Siena; PsychoEconomics Workshop, Zeppelin University (Konstanz); Marche Polytechnic University
2016: Workshop, University of Cagliari; University of Amsterdam
2014: Santa Fe Institute; NBER Culture and Institutions Meeting; University of Bologna
2013: ASSA Annual Meeting, San Diego; University of Siena; University of Trento; ESNIE (Plenary), Cargèse (Corsica); ISNIE Annual Conference, Florence; Workshop, University of Bergamo; University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2012: Tor Vergata University; International Economics Seminar, MIT; Behavioral Group Meeting, Santa Fe Institute; ITSG, Annual Meeting, Sapienza University of Rome
2011: Workshop EUI, Florence
2010: ITSG, Bocconi University, Milan; Conference on Advances in International Economics and Economic Dynamics, Sapienza University of Rome
2009: 5th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi; Italy's External Competitiveness, Economic and Financial Analysis and Planning - Italian Treasury Department, Rome; CIDEI, Sapienza University of Rome; European Association of Law and Economics, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome; ISNIE - HAAS School of Business, Univ of California at Berkeley; ESNIE, Cargèse (Corsica); University of Bergamo; ASSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
2008: Parthenope University of Naples; CESifo Area Conference on .Macro, Money & International Finance, Munich; Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome
2007: Third Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Law & Economics, Bocconi University, Milan
2004: Workshop, University of Trento; CRISS (Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario sullo Stato Sociale) Annual Meeting for Young Economists, Sapienza Univ of Rome
2003: DRUID (Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics) Conference Aalborg; University of Siena
2002: EAEPE (European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy) Conference Aix-en-Provence; EEA (European Economic Association) Summer School, Endogenous Fluctuations and Nonlinear Dynamics, Lisbon
Research grants
2022:
- The drivers and outcomes of policymakers' behavior, 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome [PI: Valerio Leone Sciabolazza]
2021:
Digital technologies, automation and growth, 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome [PI: Carmelo Parello]
2020:
- In times of trouble: firms' competitiveness, labor market, and policy implications, 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome [PI: Emanuele Brancati]
2019:
- The sources and the economic outcomes of social preferences, 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome [PI: Fabio Sabatini]
2018:
- Politics, wealth inequality, and preferences for redistribution, 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome [PI]
- The role of social capital in local development, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina [PI: Fabio Sabatini]
2017
- The sources and the economic outcomes of social capital, 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome [PI: Fabio Sabatini]
2016:
- The impact of digital technologies on political, social, and economic outcomes [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
2015:
- Human capital and institutional change [with Francesco Drago (PI) and Roberto Galbiati], 12 months, EIEF
- Trust, civic capital, and economic development [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
2014:
- Top income distribution in the long-run. Five centuries of inequality in Florence [PI; with Francesco Drago, Mattia Fochesato, and Roberto Galbiati], 12 months, EIEF
- Natural disasters, institutional change, and economic development [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
2013:
- The economics of intuition and reasoning: a study on the change of rational attitudes under two elaboration systems (SOCRATES) [Local coordinator; PI: L. Boncinelli], 36 months, PRIN-MIUR
- Persistent religious beliefs and institutional change: historical evidence from natural experiments [PI; with Francesco Drago and Roberto Galbiati], 12 months, EIEF
- Coevolution of social preferences and institutions in open-economies [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
2012:
- Constraints to export and internationalization: Theoretical analysis and empirical evidence from Italian firms [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
- Interdependent outcomes, preferences and expectations in economic decision making [PI: E. Patacchini], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
2011:
- Export performance of a country: micro- and macro-economic perspectives [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
2010:
- Institutions, globalization and economic growth [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
2009:
- Institutions, economic development and integration [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
- Institutions and international trade [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
2008:
- Real equilibrium exchange rate: a NATREX multi-country approach [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome - renewal
- Beyond the short-run: cycle, productivity growth and market imperfections, 24 months, PRIN-MIUR
2007:
- Real equilibrium exchange rate: a NATREX multi-country approach [PI], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
2006:
- The political economy of neoprotectionism [PI: G. Gandolfo], 12 months, Sapienza University of Rome
Awards (selection)
2009: Sapienza outstanding research award: researchers under 40
2004-2005: Bank of Italy, “Bonaldo Stringher” fellowship (premium for the best graduate dissertation) – Renewal
2001-2002: Bank of Italy, “Bonaldo Stringher” fellowship (premium for the best graduate dissertation)
Scientific and organization committees
Member of the Program Committee for the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics SIOE’s annual meeting, Toronto. June 23-25, 2022.
Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee: 2nd SOCRATES Workshop, Intuition, Reasoning, and Pro-social Behavior – Meeting PRIN 2012, University of Pisa. February 2017
Member of the Organizing Committee: 4th Workshop in Macro Banking and Finance, Sapienza University of Rome. September 2016
Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee: 1st SOCRATES Workshop, Limited Cognitive Resources in Economics: Heuristics, Information Processing, and Strategic Behavior – Meeting PRIN 2012, Sapienza University of Rome. June 2015
Member of the Organizing Committee: La Crisi e il Debito Sovrano, Sapienza University of Rome. April 2013
Member of the Organizing Committee: ITSG (Italian Trade Study Group) Annual Meeting, Sapienza University of Rome. February 2012
Workshop organizer: Impact of (International) Trade on Institutions, ESNIE (European School on New Institutional Economics) Summer School, Cargèse (Corsica). May 17-23, 2009
Member of the Organizing Committee: Transatlantic Relations and the Future of the WTO Doha Round, IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali) and CIDEI (Centro Interdipartimentale Economia Internazionale). March 14, 2006
Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee: Research in Economics: Methodology, Coherence, Effectiveness, University of Siena. May 15-17, 2003
Member of the Organizing Committee: EU Fiscal and Monetary Institutions: Past, Present and Future, ECSPC (European Center for Study of Public Choice) and CIDEI (Centro Interdipartimentale Economia Internazionale). May, 2001
Teaching
Economics (undergrad), Sapienza University of Rome (2014-2023)
International Economics (undergrad), Sapienza Universityof Rome (2010-2023)
Microeconometrics (grad), PhD in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome (2013-2023)
Causality and Identification in Panel Data Models (grad), Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione - SSPA (2019-2020, 2022-2023)
Econometrics III (grad), PhD in Economics, Sapienza University of Rome (2007-2012)
Macroeconomics and Economic Policy [Part 2/5 Labor market] (undergrad) LUISS - Guido Carli, Rome (2011)
International Finance (master), Sapienza University of Rome (2009-2010)
Econometrics I (grad), PhD in Economics, University of Siena (2009)
Advanced International Economics (master), Sapienza University of Rome (2009)
Topics in International Political Economy (master), Sapienza University of Rome (2008-2009)
International Fragmentation of Production and Multinational Enterprises, International Master of First Level in European and International Policies and Crisis Management, Sapienza University of Rome (2007-2012)
International Economics I (undergrad), Sapienza University of Rome (2007)
Teaching assistant (undergrad), Microeconomics, Economics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (2006-2007)
Industrial Economic Policy (master), Economics Department “Richard M. Goodwin”, University of Siena (2006)