Research

Publications:

• Cultural differences, intergenerational contacts, and the spread of Covid-19: Evidence from Swiss language regions (2023), Population Studies, 77(1):111-121, with Fabrizio Mazzonna.

• Getting Closer or Falling Apart? Euro Area Countries After the Sovereign Debt Crisis (2023), Comparative Economic Studies, 65:191-220, with Massimo Bordignon and Massimiliano Onorato.

• Saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: the benefits of the first Swiss lockdown (2021), Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 157(4):1-21, with Beatrice Retali.

Working Papers and Work in Progress:

• The Double-Edged Sword of Skilled Immigration, with Fabrizio Mazzonna, Raphaël Parchet and Giovanni Pica. Revision requested at ILR Review.

  • Previously circulated under the title Opening the Labor Market to Qualified Immigrants in Absence of Linguistic Barriers (IZA DP-15631).

• Are citizens willing to reduce public debt? Beliefs, information and policy preferences, with Massimo Bordignon and Gilberto Turati (CESIFO WP; CIFREL WP). Revision requested at European Journal of Political Economy.

• A prosocial legacy of Covid-19 among healthcare professionals?, with Joan Costa-Font, Gilberto Turati and Daniel Wiesen (CIFREL WP). Revision requested at Economics & Human Biology.

• Winning the hearts of mobile brains: What are young graduates looking for? with Barbara Antonioli Mantegazzini and Edoardo Slerca. Submitted.

• When trade shocks collide with labor mobility: a perfect storm for labor market outcomes? Submitted.

• Bank scandals and distrust in institutions, with Davide Cipullo and Tommaso Colussi.

Policy Briefs and Reports:

• Il debito pubblico in Italia (2025), Laboratorio Futuro, Istituto Toniolo, with Massimo Bordignon and Gilberto Turati.

• A Tale of Two Crises (2024), IEP@ BU Policy Brief, Institute for European Policymaking, Bocconi University, with Massimo Bordignon and Massimiliano Onorato.

Popular Writing:

• La qualità delle istituzioni nelle regioni e province italiane (30.01.2026), Osservatorio sui Conti Pubblici Italiani, with G. Olmastroni, G. Turati and M. Bordignon (in Italian).

• Un bilancio comune per una difesa comune (2025), Eco, with Massimo Bordignon (in Italian).

• Il futuro dell'Unione, fra fiducia e dubbi dei cittadini (2024), lavoce.info, with Massimo Bordignon (in Italian).

• Convergenza o divergenza? I Paesi dell'Euro dopo la crisi (2018), Riformare l'Europa - Osservatorio Monetario 2/2018, Associazione per lo Sviluppo degli Studi di Banca e Borsa e Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, pp. 60-75, with Massimo Bordignon and Massimiliano Onorato (in Italian).