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I am professor of economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics of University of Naples Federico II, a founding member of the MoFiR and research fellow at the CSEF and Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano. I served as President of the Società Italiana di Economia (Italian Economic Society) for the three-year period 2019-2022.

My  research interests are in banking, money, migration, remittances, industrial organization, family firms, economic growth and policy evaluation. My research has been published in academic journals including the Economic Journal, Health Economics, IMF Economic Review, Italian Economic Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Financial Intermediation,  Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Metroeconomica, Review of  Finance, Review of Income and Wealth, Review of International Organizations, Small Business Economics, World Development.

I am on the Editorial Board of the, PSL Quarterly Review, Rivista Bancaria - Minerva Bancaria and SN - Business & Economics, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Economic Journal.

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Institutional homepages at University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and Repec.


Address:                                                                                                                                                                    Dept. of Economics and StatisticsUniversity of Naples Federico II Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo Via Cintia, 2180126 - Naples (Italy)  Phone: + 39 081 675039Skype: alberto_zazzaro   E-mail: alberto.zazzaro@unina.it 

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Working Papers


Authority, Information, and Credit Terms: Evidence from Small Business Lending, with Andrea Bellucci and Alexander Borisov, CSEF Working Paper, No. 697, and MoFiR Working Paper, No. 184, 2023.

Discrimination of Immigrants in Mortgage Pricing and Approvale: Evidence from Italy, with Paolo Emilio Mistrulli and Md Taslim Uddin, CSEF Working Paper, No. 675, 2023; MoFiR Working Paper, No. 180, 2023.

How do Monthly Remittances Respond to Natural Disasters in Migrants' Home Countries?, with Giulia Bettin and Amadou Jallow, CSEF Working Paper, No. 673, 2023; MoFiR Working Paper, No. 179, 2023.

Bank Diversity and Financial Contagion, with Emmanuel Caiazzo, CSEF Working Paper, No. 667, 2023 and MoFiR Working Paper No. 178, 2023.


Accepted and published articles

Green firms, environmental hazards, and investment, with Tommaso Oliviero and Sandro Rondinella, Sustainabiliy, 16(2), 542, 2024.

Job protection and mortgage conditions: Evidence from Italian administrative data, with Paolo E. Mistrulli, Tommaso Oliviero and Zeno Rotondi, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 85(6), , 1211-1237, 2023.

Debt financing of SMEs: The certification role of R&D subsidies, with Andrea Bellucci and Luca Pennacchio, International Review of Financial Analysis, 90, Article No. 102903, 2023.

Relationship Lending and Employment Decisions in Firms' Bad Times, with Pierluigi Murro and Tommaso Oliviero, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 58(6), 2657-2691, 2023.

Lifting You Up or Dragging You Down? The Role of Financial Inclusion in Poverty Transitions among Italian Households, with Giulia Bettin and Claudia Pigini, Review of Income and Wealth, 69(3), 606-639, 2023.