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CURRENT POSITION
– Associate Professor in Economic Policy (SECS/P02), Department of Economics and Business, University of Cagliari
– Researcher of CRENoS

EDUCATION
Laurea, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, 1997.
PhD, Università di Firenze, 2001.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Macroeconomics, Localization of economic activities, Political Selection

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The Role of Gender in Employment Polarization - International Economic Review (forthcoming) (with Alessio Moro and Michelle Rendall)

Insularity and the Development of a Local Network: a Simulation Model applied to the Italian Railway System, (2020) - Economia Politica, 37, 683–702 (with Luisanna Cocco, Katiuscia Mannaro, Michele Marchesi e Francesco Pigliaru)

Catch me if you learn: Development-specific Education and Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics (2018), 22, 1652-1694 (with Fabio Manca) 

Reward from Public Office and the Selections of Politicians by Parties (2017), European Journal of Political Economy, 47, 1-18 (with Luca Deidda)

 Is Agglomeration really good for growth: interregional equity and global efficiency (2014) Journal of Urban Economics, 84 (3), pp. 9-22. (with Francesco Mureddu)

RECENT WORKING PAPER

A note on Employment and Wage Polarization in the U.S. , CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15797 (with Alessio Moro and Michelle Rendall)

Spatial Polarization (2019), CRENoS Working Paper 19-09  (with Elisa Dienesch, Alessio Moro and Michelle Rendall) (Revise and Resubmit - Economic Journal)

WORK IN PROGRESS

The welfare effects of a pandemic (with Miguel Leon Ledesma, Alessio Moro, Michelle Rendall and Satoshi Tanaka)

Political Selection and Monetary Incentives in local parliamentary systems (joint with Andrea Caria and Marco Nieddu)

Party fragmentation and political selection (joint with Andrea Caria and Marco Nieddu)

Overaccumulation and Leisure (joint with Xavier Raurich)

TEACHING

Undergraduate

Economic Policy (Macro policies) - Scienze Politiche - Università di Cagliari

Master
– Corporate Finance – Economics, Finance and Public Policies – Università di Cagliari
– Economics and Geography of Innovation – Economics, Finance and Public Policies – Università di Cagliari

PHD

- Advanced Microeconomics - Phd in Economics and Business - Università di Cagliari