About me
I am a researcher at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. My research interests lie in the fields of industrial organisation and applied econometrics.
My work focuses on productivity growth, competition, market power, business dynamism, and innovation. Understanding the relationships among these concepts provides valuable insights into the evolution of an economy, particularly with respect to technological change and the process of job creation and destruction, both of which play a crucial role in shaping our standard of living. Ultimately, my research aims to contribute to the design of effective policies that support economic prosperity, innovation, and job growth.
News Blog
November 2026. Forthcoming in Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik): MUP-LBD: The ZEW Mannheim Enterprise Panel for the Analysis of Longitudinal Business Dynamism (with colleagues at ZEW), a new firm-level database on business dynamism in Germany, 2000–2023. The full documentation is available as ZEW Discussion Paper 26-044.
August 5th, 2026. Off the academic track: my article Autopsia di un declino industriale on the history of the former glassworks in Gaeta was published in the Italian newspaper Il Giornale del Lazio. The German version, “Autopsie eines industriellen Zerfalls”, is on my new blog.
June 15th, 2026. Third workshop of our Leibniz project with IWH in Halle (Saale). More on the project page.
June 5th, 2026. New publication: Productivity, markups, and reallocation: Evidence from French manufacturing firms, 2026, Empirical Economics 70(6), 88.
June 3rd, 2026. Working paper update: Imperfect competition with heterogeneous firms, welfare and misallocation (with B. Koebel), R&R at the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
October 8th, 2025. Second workshop of our Leibniz project at ZEW in Mannheim. More on the project page.
Older news
October 14th, 2024. New working paper online: Cournot competition with heterogeneous firms, welfare and misallocation (with B. Koebel).
September–November 2024. Research stay at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
January 24th, 2024. My paper Productivity, markups, and reallocation: Evidence from French manufacturing firms from 1994 to 2016 is now available as ZEW Discussion Paper.
January 8th, 2024. Replication notebook available here for Nonparametric instrumental regression with two-way fixed effects, Journal of Econometric Methods.
October 5th, 2023. Publication of my paper Nonparametric instrumental regression with two-way fixed effects in the Journal of Econometric Methods.
September 22nd, 2023. Winning the Leibniz Collaborative Excellence Fund for the 3-year research project “High Growth Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Transformation of the Economy”. See more here.