Research

Published works

1. Foreign Debt, Capital Controls, and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Nazi Germany  with Claudio Schioppa - Journal of Political Economy, Volume 13, Number 6, June 2024. Replication package. Working paper versions: DIW; ECARES; Priority Programme 1859 Experience and Expectation. Historical Foundations of Economic Behaviour. Media coverage: Le Monde.

2. Fiscal Policy under Constraints: Fiscal Capacity and Austerity during the Great Depression -  Economic History Review Volume 77, Issue 1, February 2024, pp. 90-118. Replication package available at the article link. 

3. Slavery and Development in 19th Century Brazil  with Nuno Palma, Thales Pereira, and Leonardo Weller -  Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 2021, pp. 372-426. Replication package. Working paper versions: CEPR; CAGE. Media coverage: BBC News Brasil; BBN Times. 

4.  Plucking The Goose While It’s Hissing: Recessions and Tax Introductions with Zbigniew Truchlewski - published in Global Taxation. How Modern Taxes Conquered the World,  Philipp Genschel & Laura Seelkopf (eds),  Oxford University Press. 

Working Papers

1. The The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration - with David Escamilla-Guerrero and Ariell Zimran, NBER Working Paper, IZA Bonn Working Paper, Oxford Economic and Social History Working Paper.

2. Slaves, Migrants and  Development in Brazil, 1872-1923, EUI Working Paper.

3. Sovereign Defaults during the Great Depression: The Role of Fiscal Fragility, LSE Economic History Working Paper (Awarded the New Researchers Prize at the Economic History Society Annual Conference).

Work in progress

1. Creating Expectations: Propaganda and the Economic Recovery in Nazi Germany, with Stephanie Ettmeier, Alexander Kriwoluzky, and Moritz Schularick.

2. How the Romans Ruled the World: Aqueducts and the Management of Empire, with Per F. Andersson, Andrea Matranga, Filip Novokmet, and Tomasz Zawisza.

3. From Vichy to the National Front: Exploring the Legacies of WWII on Support for the Far Right in France, with Per F. Anderssonnad Agustín Goenaga.

4. The Italian Business Cycle from the Unification Until Today: A Disaggregated Approach, with Albrecht Ritschl and Samad Sarferaz.