Publications
Trade Protection Along Supply Chains, joint with Chad P. Bown, Paola Conconi, and Aksel Erbahar
CEPR Discussion Paper 15648 and CESifo Working Paper 8812. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (Forthcoming). Featured in columns on VoxEU and Bloomberg and a blog of LSE US Centre.
The Unintended Consequences of Trade Protection on the Environment, with Taipeng Li, Rui Xie, Guohao Yang, Working Papers ECARES 2023-16, ULB Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Journal of Development Economics 178 (2026): 103547.
The Impact of Bank Lending Standards on Credit to Firms, joint with Lorenzo Ricci, and Giovanni Soggia. Working Papers ECARES 2022-01, Journal of Banking & Finance, 152 (2023): 106880.
Suspiciously Timed Trade Disputes, joint with Paola Conconi, David R. DeRemer, Georg Kirchsteiger and Maurizio Zanardi. CEPR Discussion Paper 10582. Journal of International Economics, 105 (2017), 57-76 Featured on the Washington Post, on Fortune and in a Vox column.
Working Papers
The Anticompetitive Effect of Trade Liberalizations, joint with Catherine Fuss and Daniele Verdini
Best Paper Award at the 15th FIW Research Conference
Trade Policy and the China Syndrome (2020)
Partially subsumed by "Politically Motivated Trade Protection"
Working Papers ECARES 2020-15, ULB - Universite Libre de Bruxelles and SERIES 05-2020, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
Wim Meeusen Prize for the best paper at the 10th Economics of Global Interactions Conference, 2019
Work in Progress
Elite Careers under Autocracy: Evidence from Russia
Lobbying Against Free Markets: the Political Economy of Rising Concentration in US markets, joint with Marco Grotteria
Misallocation and Home Bias in Public Procurement, joint with Catherine Fuss, Manuel García-Santana, and Marta Santamaria
Home Bias in Defence Procurement, joint with Aksel Erbahar and François Leurquin
Mergers and Export Performance under Trade Barriers, joint with Giorgio Ferroni, Emanuele Tarantino, and Daniele Verdini
Climate Shocks, Income, and Voting, joint with Juan Robalino and Álvaro Zúñiga-Cordero
Housing Shocks and Local Elections: Evidence from Short-Term Rentals in Italy, joint with Giorgio Ferroni and Álvaro Zúñiga-Cordero
Lobbying and Counter-Lobbying on Trade Protection, joint with Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar, and Elisa Navarra