Lifting Women Up: Gender Quotas and the Advancement of Women on Corporate Boards
(with A. Fedorets)
Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 33, 2025, pp. 407–435
We examine how gender quotas affect women's career progression and find that while they increase board representation, they do not lead to broader gains in executive leadership.
Signalling Creditworthiness with Fiscal Austerity
European Economic Review, Vol. 144, 2022, 104090
This paper explores how governments may use fiscal austerity as a signal of creditworthiness in the presence of informational asymmetries and market discipline constraints.
Solicited versus Unsolicited Ratings: The Role of Selection
Journal of Financial Management, Markets and Institutions, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2019
This article examines how selection effects influence the differences between solicited and unsolicited credit ratings, and the implications for market efficiency and regulatory oversight.
The Credit Ratings Model
(with Paolo Colla and Nicola Pavoni)
This project studies how increased competition among bond-issuing firms can explain the rise in rating stringency over time, linking market structure to CRA behavior.
Diversity in Venture Capital Firms
(with Vincenzo Capizzi and Alessandra Ferrari)
This project investigates the impact of diversity within VC firms on investment decisions, portfolio performance, and startup founder demographics.
The Effects of Parental Leave on the Organization of Labor within the Firm
(with Hanna Wang)
We study how parental leave policies influence team structure, career trajectories, and intra-firm task allocation, using matched employer-employee data.