Interests: Macroeconomics, International Economics

PUBLICATIONS

1. Real Business Cycle in Emerging Countries?
   American Economic Review, 100, December 2010, 2510-2531
   with Javier Garcia-Cicco (Banco Central de Chile),  and Martin Uribe (Columbia University)
   

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2. How Beneficial Was the Great Moderation After All?
   Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol.46, September 2014, 73-90
   

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3. The Heterogenous Great Moderation
   European Economic Review, Volume 74, February 2015, Pages 207–228
   – Online Appendix
   – Matlab Toolkit to run the SCI-Tests: Download

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4. The Price of Capital and the Financial Acceleration
   Economics Letters, Volume 140, December 2016, Pages 86-89
   with Hernan Seoane (U. Carlos III de Madrid), and Marija Vukotic (University of Warwick)
   – Code for solving BGG with the equilibrium price of capital Download
   – Replication files  Download

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5. Inflation Sensitivity To Monetary Policy: What Has Changed since the Early 1980’s
   Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 81, Issue 1, April 2019, pp 412-436
   with Marija Vukotic (University of Warwick)

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   Endogenous Partial Insurance and Inequality
   Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 18, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 2270–2314
   with Eric Mengus  (HEC Paris).

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7. Natural Expectations and Home Equity Extraction
   Journal of Housing Economics, Vol. 46, December 2019
   with Mario Pietrunti (Banca d’Italia and Toulouse School of Economics).

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8. Welfare Gains of Bailouts in a Sovereign Default Model
   Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 113, 193867, April 2020.
   with Hernan Seoane (U. Carlos III de Madrid), and Marija Vukotic (University of Warwick)

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9. Transparency, Political Conflict, and Debt
   Journal of International Economics, Volume 126, September 2020, 103331
   with Lorenzo Prosperi (Prometeia)

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10. Geographic negative correlation of estimated incidence between first and second waves of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) in Italy
    Mathematics, 9(2), 133, January 2021
    with Margherita Carletti (Università di Urbino)

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11. Covid-19: Regional policies and local infection risk. Evidence from Italy with a modelling study
    The Lancet Regional Health – Europe , Volume 8, September 2021.
    with Gabriele Guaitoli (U. Warwick)

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12. How Distorted Food Prices Discourage Healthy Diet
    Science Advances, 30 March 2022, Vol. 8, Issue 13
    with Thijs Van Rens (U. Warwick) and Marija Vukotic (U. Warwick)

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WORKING PAPERS

• Global Trends in Intergenerational Income Inequality? 
  with  Gabriele Guaitoli (U. Warwick)

• Interest Overhang: a Rationale for the Existence of Sovereign Lending Mechanisms[Work in Progress] with Luca Zavalloni (Bank of Ireland). (January 2019)

• Sovereign Default and Information Frictions [Work in Progress]
  with  Christian Hellwig  (Toulouse School of Economics) and Constance de Soyres (Toulouse School of Economics).

• Performance-based contracts, Income Inequality and Wealth Inequality [Work in Progress]
  with Pablo Beker (U. Warwick) and Carlo Perroni (U. Warwick).

• Estimating and Forecasting Covid-19 Evolution in the UK and its Regions
  Policy note: Cage Policy Briefing No.20, April, 2020.