Work in Progress:
1) "Invisible Lines: How Banks Use Networks to Blunt Supervisory Tightening," (with Aleksandr Kazakov and Koen Schoors)
Former versions circulated as "Measuring Fraud in Banking and Its Impact on the Economy: A Quasi-Natural Experiment" [SSRN]
2) "A Race to Fragility: Heterogeneous Depositors and Panic-Based Runs ," with Rafael Matta and Murillo Campello
Former versions circulated as "Asset-Liability Mismatch, Bank Fraud, and the Losses on Bank Failures" [SSRN]
Talks: Bundesbank (November 2026), the University of Ghent (November 2026), Finance in the Tuscan Hills (Florence School of Banking & Finance, EUI; July 2026)
3) "Bank Specialization and Credit Reallocation over the Business Cycle," with Michele Lenza, Anthony Saunders, and Iliriana Shala
4) "Authoritarian Control and Financial Crises: Evidence from Fascist Italy," with Mario Carillo, Raoul Minetti, Pierluigi Murro, and Jose-Luis Peydro
Talks: Empirical banking workshop ``Finance in the Tuscan Hills" (Florence School of Banking, EUI, July 2024), CERGE-EI Applied Micro Seminar (link, December 2024)
Video: Florence School of Banking "FBF Pills" [link]
5) "Domestic Lending, Bank Reputation, and Depositor Panics during Wars," with Akif Midilli and Steven Ongena
CEPR Press eBook (2024) "Disasters and (Bank) Financing"
Media coverage: VoxTalks Podcast (March 2024)
Talks: 3rd LTI Conference at Collegio Carlo Alberto (November 2023, Turin), BB seminar at the University of Zurich (February 2024)
6) "Environmental Bank Regulation and Corporate Lending Technology," with Hans Degryse, Bernardus van Doornik, and Carola Theunisz
Talks: BB Seminar at Erasmus University Rotterdam (May 2026)*, Research Seminar at the Bayes Business School and EBRD (London, September 2025), Finance Research Seminar at Toulouse School of Economics (TSE, September 2024), Finance Research Seminar at SKEMA Business School (link, December 2024)
7) "Deforestation and Credit Supply Shocks," with Bernardus van Doornik, Matthias Efing, and Xinyu Lu
8) "Bank Specialization and Firm Volatility," with Antonio Santos and Nuno Silva
9) "The Great Revenge? How Politicians Punish Firms in Opposition Areas after Elections," with Alexander Popov and Steven Ongena
* Presentation by co-author(s)