Current Position
Associate Professor of Political Economy
University of Tuscia
Viterbo, Italy

Past Positions
- 1997-2006 Italian Competition Authority – Rome, Italy (“Funzionario”)
Divisions: Communications, Financial Markets, Misleading Advertising
- 2014-2015 Serbian Commission for the Protection of Competition - Belgrade, Republic of Serbia (Senior Economic Expert)

Education

- 1997-2004 University “Paris-Dauphine”
Ph.D. in Economics, summa cum laude. Dissertation: "Institutions monétaires et stabilité de la monnaie"
Paris, France
- 2002-2003 University of Tor Vergata
Master in Economics and Institutions
Rome, Italy
- 1993 University “La Sapienza”
Postgraduate school in “Banking and financial markets policy and legislation” Rome, Italy
- 1986-1991 University “La Sapienza”
Bachelor in Political Science - Economics (laurea), summa cum laude
Rome, Italy
- 1985-1987 Scuola Superiore Interpreti e Traduttori
Conference Interpreter and Translator Degree (English and French)
Rome and Bari, Italy

Selected Publications

- “Small firm acquisitions, merger control and digital markets: the Meta/Kustomer case” (with Luisa Scorciarini), in E. Carbonara and M.R. Tagliaventi (eds.), SMEs in the digital era. Opportunities and Challenges of the Digital Single Market, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, forthcoming, ISBN: 978 1 80392 163 1

- “The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Labor Productivity: Do Constitutions Matter?” (with Emanuela Carbonara, Enrico Santarelli and Giovanna Vallanti), Industrial and Corporate Change, 30: 884-904, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtab003

- “Informality, regulation and productivity: do small firms escape EPL through shadow employment?” (with Giovanna Vallanti), Small Business Economics, 2020, ISSN: 0921-898X, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00353-9

- “Labour Courts and Firing Costs: The Labour Market Effects of Trial Delays”, (with Giovanna Vallanti), Industrial Relations, 59: 40-84, 2020, ISSN: 1468-232X, doi: 10.1111/irel.12250

- “Labour Courts and Firing Costs in Italy: The Labour Market Gender Effects of Trial Delays” (with Giovanna Vallanti), Economia Italiana, 3:99-138, 2019, ISSN: 0392-775X

- “Riflessioni organizzative sul coordinamento della blockchain aperta” (with Giampiero Garzarelli), in R. Cubeddu e P. Reichlin (eds.) Individuo Libertà e Potere, Studi in onore di Lorenzo Infantino, Rubbettino, 2019;

- “Institutions and firms' adjustments: measuring the impact of courts' delays on job flows and productivity” (with Giovanna Vallanti), Journal of Law and Economics, 60: 136-172, 2017;

- “Vertical Integration”, Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, in A. Marciano and G.B. Ramello (eds.), Springer, New York

- “Adverse Clearings in a Monetary System with Multiple Notes Issuers: the Case of Italy (1861-1893)" (with Fabrizio Mattesini), Cliometrica, vol. 9, No. 1, 2015;

- “Market Access, Organic Farming and Productivity: the Effects of Fair Trade Affiliation on Thai Farmer Producer Groups” (with Leonardo Becchetti and Pierluigi Conzo), Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ISSN: 1364-985X), volume 56, issue 1, 2012;

- “Human resource management and productivity in the "Trust Game Corporation" (with Leonardo Becchetti and Noemi Pace), International Review of Economics (ISSN: 1865-1704), volume 59, Number 1, March 2012;