Accepted Papers/Publications

• A Machine Learning Projection Method for Macro-finance ModelsPDFLink CodeSimple Example Code

  joint with Vytautas Valaitis, Quantitative Economics, Vol. 15, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 145-173

• Capital and Labor Taxes with Costly State ContingencyPDFLinkCode

  joint with Alex Clymo and Andrea Lanteri, Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 51, December 2023, Pages 943-964

• Optimal Procurement with Quality ConcernsPDFLinkCodeSoftware 1 – Optimal LoLA Software 2 – Optimal Mechanism

  joint with Nicola Persico and Giuseppe Lopomo, American Economic Review, Vol. 113, No. 6, June 2023, Pages 1505-19

• Optimal Financial Contracting and the Effects of Firm's Size PDFLink

  joint with Sandro Brusco, Giuseppe Lopomo and Eva Ropero, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 52, Issue 2, Summer 2021, Pages 446-467

Other Publications

• The Evolving Core of Usable Macroeconomics for Policymakers PDFSlides

  joint with Bart Hobijn and Jonas Fisher, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings (2025)

• Inequality and Shocks to Firms' Pricing DecisionsPDFLink

  joint with Filippo Ferroni, Economic Perspectives, Number 6, 2024

Working Papers

• Macro Shocks and Firm Dynamics with Oligopolistic Financial IntermediariesPDF

  Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies

• Mind the Gap: The Market Price of Financial FlexibilityPDF

  joint with Filippo Ippolito, Roberto Steri, and Claudio Tebaldi, Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Finance

• Government Debt Management and Inflation with Real and Nominal BondsPDFSlides

  joint with Lukas Schmid and Vytautas Valaitis

• Investment-Goods Market Power and Capital AccumulationPDFSlides

  joint with Fabio Bertolotti and Andrea Lanteri

• Optimal Fiscal Policy under Endogenous Disaster Risk: How to Avoid Wars?PDF

  joint with Vytautas Valaitis

• On-the-Job Search and Inflation Under the MicroscopePDF

  joint with Saman Darougheh, Renato Faccini, and Leonardo Melosi

Work in progress

• Quantifying Market Power in Investment Goods

  joint with Fabio Bertolotti and Andrea Lanteri

• The Rise of Shareholder Capitalism: Macroeconomic Implications

  joint with François Gourio

• Dynamic Optimal Procurement With Quality Concerns

  joint with Nicola Persico and Giuseppe Lopomo

• Do Words Matter? The Impact of FOMC Speeches through Text Analysis and Policy Surprises

  joint with Leonardo Melosi, Milena Djourelova, and Filippo Ferroni

Pre Econ PhD Publication

• A Lyapunov-stable, sensor-based model for real-time path-tracking among unknown obstaclesPDF Link

  joint with Antonio Sgorbissa, Andrea Vargiu and Renato Zaccaria, 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Pages 2946-2951