He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, he is a professor of Economics at Nova SBE and a researcher at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.
His research focuses on a wide range of topics, going from the relationship between democracy and economic growth to the macroeconomic cost of gender discrimination and has been published in several academic journals, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and in works published by Harvard University Press, MIT Press, Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press.
His academic work has been commented on in publications such as Time Magazine, The New York Times, Handelsblatt and La Repubblica, and discussed on specialised opinion article sites such as Vox.eu and Eurointelligence.
He was co-editor, with Francesco Caselli and Mário Centeno, of «After the Crisis: Reform, Recovery and Growth in Europe», and author of the essay «Europe Is Not a Foreign Country», a discussion on the past and future of Europe as an idea.

Last updated: October 2023