My current research field focuses on the impact of euro adoption on aggregate and sectoral european trade, the use of dynamic panel data techniques in gravity models.
Dynamic Gravity models
The Euro's Effect on Trade in a Dynamic Setting (with Sergio de Nardis and Roberta De Santis), European Journal of Comparative Economics (2008)
This paper provides an update on estimates of the euro effect on trade integration among...
The Single Currency's Effects On Eurozone Sectoral Trade: Winners and Losers? (with Roberta De Santis and Sergio de Nardis), Economics, The Open Access , Open Assessment E-Journal (2008)
In this paper we study the effect of the single currency across industries for euro...
Trade Potentials in Gravity Panel Data Models (with Luca De Benedictis), Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy (2005)
The paper shows how - using as an example the trade flows between eleven European...
The Impact Of The Euro On Trade: The (Early) Effect Is Not So Large (with Sergio de Nardis), ENEPRI Working Paper n.17 (2003)
We investigate the impact of adoption of the euro on the commercial transactions of EMU...
Economic Integration
The Euro adoption’s impact on extensive and intensive margins of trade: the Italian case. (with Sergio de Nardis and Carmine Pappalardo), ISAE Working Paper n.101 (2008)
The recent theoretical literature has focused on the importance of extensive and intensive margins of...
Currency Union and Trade: the Special Case of EMU (with Sergio de Nardis), Review of World Economics / Welwirtschaftliches Archiv (2003)
In this paper, the impact of the euro on the commercial transactions of EMU countries...
Taxes and Location of Foreign Direct Investments: an Empirical Analysys for the European Union Countries (with Roberta De Santis and Maria Cristina Mercuri), Economia, Società e Istituzioni (2003)
This paper aims at verifying the impact of fiscal variables in the multinational firms' localisation...
The determinants of FDI inflows in Europe: the role of the institutional context and Italy's relative position (with Roberta De Santis), Rivista di Politica Economica (2001)
Worldwide Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows have showed an impressive upward trend over the past...
Regionalism
The "Deeper" and the "Wider" EU Strategies of Trade Integration: An Empirical Evaluation of EU Common Commercial Policy Effects (with Roberta De Santis), Global Economy Journal (2007)
Since the post war period, the EU Common Commercial Policy (CCP) has moved in two...
Hub-and-Spoke or else? Free trade agreements in the 'enlarged' European Union (with Luca De Benedictis and Roberta De Santis), European Journal of Comparative Economics (2005)
The object of this paper is to estimate if and how the Central European Free...