Research
Publications
Credit-Supply Shocks and Firm Productivity in Italy (PDF, SSRN), with M. Raissi and A. Weber, Journal of International Money and Finance 87(10), pp 150-171, 2018
Geographic diversification and bank lending during crises (PDF, SSRN, Online Appendix), with P. Schaz, Journal of Financial Economics 140(3), pp 768-788, 2021
Stress tests, entrepreneurship and innovation (PDF, SSRN), Review of Finance 25(5), pp 1609-1637, 2021
Read summaries by Moody's Analytics and the Financial Services Forum
Financial crises and political radicalization: How failing banks paved Hitler's path to power (PDF, SSRN), with S. Gissler, J.-L. Peydró and H.-J. Voth, The Journal of Finance 77(6), pp 3339-3372, 2022
For a summary, see The Economist
Working Papers
Non-bank lending during financial crises (2022), with I. Aldasoro and H. Zhou
Technology and privacy regulation in loan markets (2022), with L. Gambacorta, L. Guiso and M. Sanchez del-Villar (draft coming soon)
Income Inequality and Job Creation (2022), with T. Drechsel and D. Lee
Read our summary in an EFIP Research Brief.
Regulatory Sandboxes and Fintech Funding: Evidence from the UK (2022), with G. Cornelli, L. Gambacorta and O. Merrouche
R&R at Review of Finance
The fintech gender gap (2022), with S. Chen, J. Frost, L. Gambacorta and H.S. Shin
R&R at Journal of Financial Intermediation
Read Bloomberg's The Fintech Express Is Leaving Women Behind
Housing Booms, Reallocation, and Productivity (2020)
Young Economist Award @ EEA-ESEM Annual Congress 2018; Young Innovators Award @ Vordenker Forum 2019 (previous title: 'Collateral, Reallocation, and Industry Productivity: Evidence from the U.S. Housing Boom')
Read summaries in The Economist and The Wall Street Journal
Population Aging and Bank Risk-Taking (2022), with G. Kabas and S. Ongena
Replicated for Germany (see here)
Does IT help? IT in Banking and Entrepreneurship (2022), with T. Ahnert, N. Pierri and Y. Timmer
Mis-allocation within Firms: Internal Finance and International Trade (2022), with D. Marin, D. Suverato and T. Verdier