RESEARCH INTERESTS
Macroeconomics, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Firms' Dynamics, Macro-Labor, DSGE modelling
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current Positions
Senior Economist, Research Department, Dutch Central Bank, since 2016
Associate Professor (part-time), Economics Department, University of Milano Bicocca, since 2014
Previous Positions
Economist (ECB/IO), DG Economics, European Central Bank, October 2021-October 2022
Economist (ECB/IO), DG Economics, European Central Bank, September 2015-December 2015
Economist, Research Department, Dutch Central Bank, October 2012-October 2016
Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Milano Bicocca, January 2008-October 2014
Economist, DG Research and Policy, Bank of Italy, July 2007-January 2008
EDUCATION
University of Milano-Bicocca, Ph.D., Economics, 2007.
University of Edinburgh, M.Sc., Economics, 2003
University of Milano-Bicocca, FINARM, Master in Finance and Risk Management, 2002
Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, visiting Ph.D student, January -April 2004
University of Milano- Bicocca, B.A, Economics, 2001
University of Glasgow, Erasmus student, January -June 2001
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Monetary Policy, Productivity, and Market Concentration, with R. Silvestrini. Most recent Version.
Accepted, European Economic Review, 2021.
Central Bank Policies, Income and Wealth Inequality: a Survey (with A.Samarina and J. de Haan),
Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019, 33(4), 1199-1231
Determinacy analysis in high order dynamic systems: the case of nominal rigidities and limited asset
market participation (with G. Ascari and L. Rossi). Economics Letters, 2017, Vol. 159, 82-87.
Limited Asset Market Participation, Sticky Wages and Monetary Policy (with G.Ascari and L.
Rossi). Economic Inquiry, 2017, Volume 55, 878-897
Endogenous Market Structures and Optimal Taxation, The Economic Journal, 2016, Vol. 126 (594),
1441-1483.
Firm Entry, endogenous markups and the dynamics of the labor share of income (with Lorenza
Rossi), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19 (6), 1309-1331
The role of Financial Intermediaries in Monetary Policy Transmission (with Thorsten Beck and Damjan
Pfajfar), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2014, Vol 43, 1-11
Rule of thumb Consumers Meet Sticky Wages, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 2011, Vol. 43,
325-353
Endogenous Market Structures and the Business Cycle, (with Federico Etro), The Economic Journal,
2010, Vol. 120, 1201-1233
Real Business Cycle with Cournot Competition and Endogenous Entry, (with Federico Etro), Journal of
Macroeconomics, 2010, Vol. 32, 1101-1117
The role of Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union: Are National Automatic Stabilizers Effective?
(with V. Anton Muscatelli, T. Ropele and P. Tirelli), Review of International Economics Vol 16(3), 2008
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Structural Change, Job Creation and Cloud Computing, Capter VI in Broadband in Latin America:
beyond connectivity, Edited by V. Jordan, H. Galperin and W. Peres, United Nations, ECLAC (with
Federico Etro), 2013
Structural reforms and Endogenous Market Structures, 2018, Chapter IX in Structural Reforms-Moving the Economy Forward, Springer
WORKING PAPERS
Business Dynamism, Reallocation, and Productivity in a Pandemic, with Guido Ascari and Riccardo Silvestrini, September 2021, DNB WP 725.
See SUERF policy brief No 238 for a summary of the main results and the policy implications of this paper.
Unemployment, Firm Dynamics and the Business Cycle (with Stefano Fasani and Lorenza Rossi), 2020,
DNB WP 698.
Competition and Inequality (with Rajssa Mechelli), 2020, DNB WP 698.
Who creates and Destroys Jobs over the Business Cycle? (With Antonella Trigari and Volker Lindenthal), 2019, DNB WP 628
IN PROGRESS
The Employment Effect of Corporate Tax Shocks (with Vivien Lewis and Branka Matyska)
Carbon Taxation, Monetary Policy and Productivity (with Romanos Profitis and Boris Chafwehe)