I am an Economist at the Central Bank of Luxembourg (BcL). I am also a member of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) and of the Project Team in Climate Risk of the European Systemic Risk Board/European Central Bank.
I obtained my PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan, and pursued graduate studies at the Barcelona School of Economics.
I have been a research fellow at at the University of Copenhagen, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and a PhD intern at the Bank of England.
My research interests lie in Empirical and Theoretical Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, DSGE Models with Heterogeneous Agents, Agent-Based Modeling and complex systems.
CURRENT POSITION
Research Economist, Financial Stability Department, Banque Centrale du Luxembourg.
EDUCATION
PhD in Economics, Catholic University of Milan, Italy, 2015.
Advisors: Domenico Delli Gatti
Dissertation: Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics
Advanced Studies Program in International Economic Policy Research, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany, 2014.
International Economics, R. Rigobon (MIT) & C. Tille (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Macroeconomics, T. Monacelli (Bocconi University)
Monetary Policy, V. Weiland (Frankfurt Goethe University)
International Trade, M. Melitz (Harvard) & G.M. Ottaviano (London School of Economics)
Labor Markets, G. Bertola (Paris EDHEC)
International Migration, H. Rapoport (Paris School of Economics)
Economic Growth and Development, D. Weil (Brown University)
Institutions and Development, J. Robinson (Harvard).
MSc in Economics, Barcelona School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2012.
Thesis Title: Unemployment Fluctuations in a Bubbly Economy.
Committee: Jordi Galì & Barbara Rossi
Laurea Magistrale (MSc) in Finance, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, 2010.
Thesis Title: Non-Linear Dynamics in Financial Markets: An Agent-Based Model. Supervisor: Mauro Gallegati.
Laurea (BSc) in Economics & Finance, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, 2006.
Thesis Title: Stock Markets and Power Laws.
OTHER TRAINING & WORKSHOPS
EABCN Training School, DSGE modeling in continuous time by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Galo Nuño, 2020
Expert Panel on Sustainbale and Green Finance, Deutsche Bundesbank, June 2019
Identification Analysis and Global Sensitivity Analysis for Macroeconomic Models, European Commission (JRC), 2017.
Limited Attention, Selective Perception and Bounded Rationality in Decision Making, Copenhagen Workshop, October 21–22, 2014.
Barcelona GSE Summer Forum, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, June 10–28, 2013.
Asset Prices and the Business Cycle; International Capital Flows; Information, Competition and Market Frictions;
Time series in Macro and Finance;Trade, Growth and Income Distribution.
Topics in Macroeconomics II (PhD course by J. Ventura & R. Barnichon), Barcelona GSE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Winter Term 2013.
Grade: Excellent
Summer School in Applied Macroeconometrics, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, July 2012.
Programming in MatLab, by Prof. Ulrich Woitek.
Macroeconomics Summer Program, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, August 15–26, 2011.
Estimating and Solving DSGE Models with Heterogeneous Agents and Bounded Rationality, by Prof. Wouter den Haan.
International Scholar, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal, 2007–2008.
Erasmus Socrates Program.
PAST POSITIONS
PhD Research Intern, Bank of England, July–October 2015.
Financial Stability Directorate, Macroprudential Framework Team
Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2014–2015
Research Grant, Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Brescia, Italy, May-July 2015.
PhD Research Fellow, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), August 2013–June 2014
International economics, macro-labor economics, search and matching.
Visiting PhD Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Barcelona GSE, 2011–2013
Business cycles theory, bubbly macroeconomics, labor economics.
Visiting Researcher, Finance Research Unit, University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark, 2009–2010.
Research Grant, Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (former CIRIUS).
Agent-Based Macroeconomics; Finance.
Teaching Assistant of Macroeconomics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, Spring Term 2009.
Scientific Disciplinary Sector: SECS–P/01 (Political Economy).
Junior Economist, Italian Chamber of Commerce in Portugal, Lisbon, October 2008 - February 2009.
"CampusWorld" - Exchange placement program.
PAPERS PRESENTATIONS
* = presented by co-author(s), ** = scheduled
2018 Joint European Central Bank & Central Bank of Ireland research workshop on "Macroprudential policies: from research to implementation", Dublin.
2017 Fordham University, New York (*)
2015 Catholic University of Milan; Bank of England.
2014 Kiel Institute; Catholic University of Milan.
REFEREEING
International Review of Economics and Finance; Economia Politica;
MEMBERSHIPS
American Economic Association (AEA); European Economic Association (EEA); Royal Economic Society (RES).
IT SKILLS
MatLab, R (Harvard certification), Eviews, Gretl, LaTeX, Microsoft Office, Macintosh, Linux, Autocad.
LANGUAGES
English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (fluent), French (intermediate), Luxembourgish (beginner), Italian (native).