CV
Current position:
Assistant Professor of Economic Policy (SECS-P/02) at the Economic Policy Department, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Unicatt), Milan.
Other affiliations:
Affiliate researcher at the Institute of Economics - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA), Pisa.
Fellow at Global Labor Organization (GLO).
Research Associate at Centro Economia Digitale (CED).
Eligibility:
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (ASN), Seconda Fascia, 13/A2 (Politica Economica), 13/A4 (Economia Applicata) – National eligibility as Associate Professor in “Economic Policy” and “Applied Economics”.
Previous position:
2018-2021 Postdoc researcher at National Institute of Public Policy Analysis (INAPP), Rome.
Education:
2015-2018: Ph.D in Economics and Finance, PhD School of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome.
PhD thesis ‘Essays on Technical Change, Economic Growth and Income Distribution: a Complex Adaptive System Approach’.
Supervisors: Proff. Mauro Gallegati and Luca Zamparelli.
Final mark: Ottimo cum laude.
2012-2014: M.Sc. in Economic Analysis of International Institutions (LM-56), 110/110 summa cum laude, thesis in Advanced Macroeconomics ‘Sectoral Net Borrowing Flows: the case of Greece’, Sapienza University of Rome.
2008-2012: B.C. in Political Science and International Relations (L-36), thesis in Comparative Economic Systems ‘Liquidity Trap in Japan’, Sapienza University of Rome.
2003-2008: High School Degree Liceo Ginnasio Cornelio Tacito, Rome.
Summer schools and advanced courses:
2018 - ‘Barcelona GSE Summer School in Macroeconometrics’: ‘Empirical Time Series Methods for Macroeconomic Analysis’ and ‘Modeling Non-stationary and Non-linear Time Series’ .
2017 - ‘Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks’ , Oxford Mathematical Institute, Oxford.
2016 - ‘Applied Stock-Flow Consistent Macromodelling - Summer School’ , Kingston University, London.
2016 - ‘Minsky Summer Seminar’ , Levy Economic Insitute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY).
2016 - ‘Advanced Course 2016 in Innovation, Growth and International Production’ , Eleventh Edition, La Sapienza University of Rome.
Grants and awards:
2017 - Scholarship for the ‘Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks’.
2015 - Luigi Spaventa Prize for the Best Thesis in Political Economy with the Master’s thesis ‘Sectoral Net Borrowing Flows: the case of Greece’, Fondazione Roma Sapienza.
2015 - Three-years Scholarship for the PhD Program in Economics and Finance, PhD School of Economics, La Sapienza University of Rome.
Participation in research projects:
2021 - Researcher of the Project of Relevant National Interest - PRIN 2017 ‘Lost highway: skills, technology and trade in Italian economic growth, 1815-2018’, Prot. 2017YLBYZE, Unit Coordinator: Dr Maria Enrica Virgillito, Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Federico.
2019 - External researcher affiliated to the Institute of Economics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) contributing to the research activities of the EU HORIZON 2020 research project ‘GROWINPRO - Growth Welfare Innovation Productivity’ (grant agreement N. 822781). Principal Investigator: Prof. Andrea Roventini.
2019 - External Research member of the project ‘Learning rules, heterogeneity and regime-switching policy Interactions. Implications for fiscal policy effectiveness, labor share dynamics and asset price volatility’. Coordinator: Prof. Massimiliano Tancioni. (Fondi di Ateneo ‘La Sapienza’ Progetti medi - RM11916B894E4668).
2018 - Research member of the project ‘Politics, wealth inequality, and preferences for redistribution’. Coordinator: Prof. Marianna Belloc. (Fondi di Ateneo ‘La Sapienza’ Progetti medi - RM11816428026CAE).
2017 - Coordinator of the research start-up grant (Fondi di Avvio alla Ricerca - AR11715C7DE9B37B) for the PhD research project ‘Essays on Technical Change and Income Distribution within Financial Unstable Economies’.
Reviewer activity:
Industrial and Corporate Change, Research Policy, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Economics E-Journal.
Participation in seminars and conferences:
2023: ASTRIL - 6th annual conference Associazione Studi e Ricerche Interdisciplinari sul Lavoro, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
2022: ABM4Policy, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy; Technology-gap, Development Asymmetries and Market Concentration. A complexity workshop, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; EAEPE - 34th annual conference of European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Parthenope University, Naples, Italy.
2021: EAEPE - 33th annual conference of European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (online); ISS - 18th International Schumpeter Society annual conference (online).
2020: EAEPE - 32nd annual conference of European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (online); SIE Conference - 61st Italian Economic Society (SIE) Annual Scientific Meeting (online).
2019: WICK - 6th PhD Workshop of Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy; Workshop Innovation, firm dynamics, employment and growth: New developments in modeling and estimation, University of Greenwich, London, UK; SIE Conference - 60th Italian Economic Society (SIE) Annual Scientific Meeting, Palermo, Italy.
2018: EAEPE - 30th annual conference of European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France; CEF - 24th international conference Computing in Economics and Finance, Society for Computational Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; GEOINNO - 4th Geography of Innovation conference, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.