Professor of Economics
University of Cagliari (UNICA)
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Research Fellow, IZA@LISER
My research focuses on understanding how economies evolve over time, with particular emphasis on structural transformation, technological change, and their implications for growth and employment.
Investigating how economies shift between agriculture, manufacturing, and services sectors, and the role of technological progress and preferences in driving these changes.
Analyzing the relationship between long-term economic growth and business cycle volatility, with focus on how structural changes affect macroeconomic stability.
Studying employment polarization, gender gaps in the labor market, and the role of technological change in reshaping occupational structures and wage distributions.
I teach Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Quantitative Macroeconomics at the University of Cagliari.
Principles of macroeconomic theory, covering national income accounting, aggregate demand and supply, monetary and fiscal policy, inflation, and unemployment.
Graduate-level course covering dynamic macroeconomic models, computational methods, growth theory, business cycles, and structural transformation.
Sharing economic insights through policy articles, interviews, and featured research highlights.
This VoxEU column argues that polarisation emerged through a collapse in entry into routine jobs from non-employment, not through displacement of incumbent routine workers.
2023 Royal Economic Society Prize for "Spatial Polarization" - recognized as the best article published in the Economic Journal, examining geographic patterns in economic development.
Featured research in the American Economic Association's research highlights, examining how the service sector expansion impacts long-term economic growth patterns in the United States.
Analysis of how technological change affects men and women differently in the labor market. Published in VoxEU Column, exploring the intersection of technology and gender dynamics in employment patterns.
Presentation at HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies exploring the relationship between household production and economic structural changes across different development stages.
Organizing and participating in international workshops and conferences on structural transformation and macroeconomic dynamics, bringing together leading researchers from around the world.
The tenth edition of the workshop series on Structural Transformation and Macroeconomic Dynamics.
View Event DetailsThe ninth edition of the workshop series, organized in collaboration with STEG/CEPR.
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