Senior Research Fellow of Economic Policy at the University of Siena, he holds a PhD in Economics, Markets, Institutions from the IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies. His main fields of interests are in development economics and financial economics.

VoxEU Column
The political U: A new perspective on democracy and growth
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- Politics and economics

VoxEU Column
The Great Recession and SMEs in Europe: The liquidity squeeze through inter-enterprise credit
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- Financial Markets 
- Global crisis 
- Industrial organisation