Research Focus:
Firm dynamics & investment with emphasis on:

• International trade & FDI,

• Innovation & endogenous growth.

Current Research

1. Heterogeneous Firms, Growth and the Long Shadows of Business Cycles
   with Cristiana Bendetti-Fasil, Giammario Impullitti, Omar Licandro & Petr Sedlacek
   Paper [March 2025]

2. Industrial Policy Wars and Inequality: Who Loses and When?
   with Ziran (Josh) Ding & Zinan Wang
   Paper [January 2025], Slides

3. Dynamic Effects of Industrial Policies Amidst Geoeconomic Tensions
   with Ziran (Josh) Ding & Zinan Wang
   Paper [January 2025], Slides

4. Labour Market Monopsony Power and the Dynamic Gains to Openness Reforms
   with Priyaranjan Jha & Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez
   Paper [March 2024], Slides

Publications

1. Innovation Union: Costs and Benefits of Innovation Policy Coordination
   with Teodora Borota, Fabrice Defever & Giammario Impullitti
   Journal of the European Economic Association, Conditionally accepted
   Paper [January 2025], Seminar

2. Firm Dynamics and Multinational Activity
   In Elgar Encyclopedia of International Trade, Forthcoming
   Edited by Priyaranjan Jha & Devashish Mitra
   Entry

3. Firing Multinational CEOs
   Preliminary empirics on a work in progress, Managing Multinationals
   Economics Letters, 2024
   Link, Replication materials

4. Policy Effects of International Taxation on Firm Dynamics and Capital Structure
   My 2017/18 job market paper
   Review of Economic Studies, 2022
   Link, Seminar, CROWE policy brief

5. Twin Peaks: Covid-19 and the Labor Market
   with Jake Bradley & Alessandro Ruggieri
   European Economic Review, 2021
   Link, British Academy Special Research Grant
   
   

6. Effectiveness of the Australian Fiscal Stimulus Package: a DSGE Analysis
   with Shuyun (May) Li
   My 2012 University of Melbourne master’s dissertation
   Economic Record, 2016
   Link, Used in analysis for the 2024 IMF Mundell-Fleming Lecture