Welcome to my Selected Works homepage. My name is Marco Maffezzoli and I'm currently an Associate Professor of Economics at Universitā Bocconi, Milan. My research interests span from RBC theory to optimal time consistent fiscal policy, with some international trade in between.
Articles
Specialization Patterns and the Factor Bias of Technology (with Alejandro Cuņat), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (2007)
Development accounting exercises based on an aggregate production function find technology is biased in favor...
Can Comparative Advantage Explain the Growth of US Trade? (with Alejandro Cuņat), The Economic Journal (2007)
We present a dynamic comparative advantage model in which moderate reductions in import tariffs can...
Convergence Across Italian Regions and the Role of Technological Catch-Up, Topics in Macroeconomics (2006)
This paper suggests that the main (and possibly unique) source of beta- and sigma-convergence in...
Hecksher-Ohlin Business Cycles (with Alejandro Cuņat), Review of Economic Dynamics (2004)
This paper introduces Heckscher–Ohlin trade features into a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, and...
Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade (with Alejandro Cuņat), Review of Economic Dynamics (2004)
We construct a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model in which the initial distribution of production factors across...
Working Papers
Tax Cuts in Open Economies (with Alejandro Cuņat and Szabolcs Deák), IGIER Working Paper #332 (2008)
A reduction in income tax rates generates substantial dynamic responses within the framework of the...