Hello!

Thank you for your interest in my research.

I teach International Economics at the Universitas Mercatorum and at Luiss University, both in Rome, Italy.

My research field is the empirics of international trade and migration, with an emphasis on visualisation, data analysis and applied econometrics.

My ongoing research deals with network theory and applied network analysis, on causal models with interferences, on historical trade and trade policy and on the theory and application of gravity models to international trade and migration issues. Recent research project are on the Probability of Emigrations of University Professors in Fascist Italy (joint with Sascha O. Becker); on Environmental Migration (joint with Maria Cipollina and Elisa Scibè); on Emigrant Entrepreneurs (with Massimiliano Bratti and Gianluca Santoni); on Culture as Network (joint with Veronica Vinciotti and Ernst Wit).

I spend my leisure time with family and friends, reading, attending cultural events, listening to jazz music and mountain hiking and climbing.