Curriculum Vitae


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)