Research
by Major Themes
Green-growth & Climate change
How robust is the natalist bias of pollution control? (with A. Cafferata). Annals of Operations Research. Online first. CiteScore. Scimago.
How do you feel about going green? Modelling environmental sentiments in a growing open economy (with A. Cafferata and S. Sordi). Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination. Online first. CiteScore. Scimago.
The Green-MKS system: A baseline environmental macro-dynamic model (with S. Sordi). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 212, 1056-1085, 2023. CiteScore. Scimago.
Seeing what can(not) be seen: Cognitive biases, employment dynamics and climate change (with A. Cafferata and S. Sordi). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 189: 567-586, 2021. CiteScore. Scimago.
Attitudes toward climate policies in a macrodynamic model of the economy (with S. Sordi). Ecological Economics 169, 2020. CiteScore. Scimago.
Open economies: Growth-cycle dynamics & Uneven development
Thirlwall's law: Binding-constraint or centre-of-gravity? (with S. Sordi). Metroeconomica 75(1): 52-82, 2024. CiteScore. Scimago.
International trade and economic growth in Croatia (with L. Srdelic). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 68, 240-258, 2024. CiteScore. Scimago.
Competitiveness and dynamic cumulative causation in an export-led growing economy (with J. Oreiro). Industrial and Corporate Change 32(2): 522-550, 2023. CiteScore. Scimago.
A two-stroke growth cycle model for a small open economy (with S. Sordi). Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 163, 112569, 2022. CiteScore. Scimago.
A New Developmentalist model of structural change, economic growth and middle-income traps (with J. Oreiro and K. Silva). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 55: 26-38, 2020. CiteScore. Scimago.
Structural change in a growing open economy: Attitudes and institutions in Latin America and Asia (with S. Sordi). Economic Modelling 91: 358-385, 2020. CiteScore. Scimago.
Alternative approaches to technological change in a small open economy. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 30(2): 279-317, 2020. CiteScore. Scimago.
Path dependence, distributive cycles and export capacity in a BoPC growth model (with S. Sordi). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 50: 258-272, 2019. CiteScore. Scimago.
Distributive cycles and endogenous technical change in a BoPC growth model (with S. Sordi). Economic Modelling 77: 216-233, 2019. CiteScore. Scimago.
Closed economies: Real-financial market interactions & Structural change
Samuelson's last macroeconomic model: Secular stagnation and endogenous cyclical growth (with M. Assous and M. Boianovsky). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 69: 417-426, 2024. CiteScore. Scimago.
A small-scale agent-based model of technological and institutional change (with S. Sordi). Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations 116, 106865, 2023. CiteScore. Scimago.
The Kuznets curve of the Rich (with L. Punzo). Economic Systems 45(4): 100910, 2021. CiteScore. Scimago.
(Ir)rational explorers in the financial jungle: Modelling Minsky with heterogeneous agents (with A. Cafferata and S. Sordi). Journal of Evolutionary Economics 31(4): 1157-1188, 2021. CiteScore. Scimago.
Investment behaviour and "bull-bear" dynamics: Modelling real and stock market interactions (with S. Sordi). Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 15(4): 867-897, 2020. CiteScore. Scimago.
Financialisation as structural change: Measuring the financial content of things (with L. Punzo). Economic Systems Research 32(1): 98-120, 2020. CiteScore. Scimago.
Some new insights on the empirics of Goodwin's growth-cycle model (with R. Araújo and H. Moreira). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 51: 42-54, 2019. CiteScore. Scimago.
Under Review and R&R
Demographic transition and economic growth in 6-EU member states (with L. Srdelic). Submitted to: Cambridge Journal of Economics. R&R: Major Revisions.
Climateflation and monetary policy in an environmental OLG growth model (with E. Carrera and G. Giombini). Submitted to: Environmental & Resource Economics. Under Review.
Endogenous political cleavages and the economics of climate change (with C. Proano and S. Sordi). Submitted to: Ecological Economics. Under Review.
A discrete-time growth cycle model with real-financial interactions (with S. Sordi and A. Naimzada). Submitted to: Economic Modelling. Under Review.
Work in progress
Modelling green attitudes and informality along the North-South divide (with M. Davila-Davila).
Fundamentalists, chartists and the dynamic trade-multiplier (with S. Sordi).